JULY 27: U2´s debut open-air / "Daydream Believer" / Edge and students in Dublin / burgundy #7 / Bono in Boston / 52nd 'VERTIGO' show: A tribute to A-Ha * A-Ha´s Mags was at the show * Edge from the future * Jean Genie * Vertigo II = Norwegian "En, to, tre, fjorten!" / Rumor: U2 in Brazil, during Vertigo tour / U2´s 'Everlasting Love' to benefit !

'11 O´Clock Tick Tock' tour - july 27, 1980. U2 pay their debut open-air festival in front of a 15,000 strong audience at Leixlip Castle in Kildaire. "The Police" top a bill which also includes "Squeeze" and "Q-Tips"

'ZOOTV - Zooropa" tour - july 27, 1993. U2 perform in Copenhagen(Gentofte), Denmark at Gentofte Stadion.

"POPMart" tour - july 27, 1997 / Koln, Germany - Butzweilerhof - Die Fantastischen Vier. Edge´s karaoke this night is "Daydream Believer."

"Edge appears with Dublin music students" - july 27,2002. Edge makes a surprise appearance for a number of inner city children during their music graduations in Dublin. He speaks and sings with the students, and poses for pictures. Photos, here

"Elevation" tour - july 27, 2001 / Vienna, Austria - Stadthalle - Kelis. Edge wears burgundy shirt #7.

"Bono's busy day in Boston" - july 27, 2004. With the Democratic Party National Convention underway, Bono makes several appearances in and around Boston today. His day begins with a rally to speak out in support of AIDS relief at the Boston launch of the ONE Campaign, where Bono says he's a fan of America. "That is the kind of America I love -- face out. It is concerned about what is going on in the rest of the world, and not just about its interests." Bono later appears on the floor of the Democratic Convention with his wife Ali, where he mingles with other convention attendeees and does a live interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper. His evening ends at a tribute for Senator Ted Kennedy, where Bono sings "Pride" with the Boston Pops orchestra providing support. Bono changes several key lyrics to personalize them for Kennedy, most notably the refrain about Martin Luther King, Jr., instead making references to John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. He also sings "The Hands That Built America" with backing from Yo-Yo Ma.

52nd 'VERTIGO' show - july 27, 2005 - Oslo, Norway - Vallehovin - Paddy Casey, Razorlight - A tribute to A-Ha / A-Ha´s Mags was at the show / Edge from the future / Surreal / Under a blue-blue sky / Jean Genie / good and proper male perfume / Vertigo II = Norwegian "En, to, tre, fjorten!" Bono sings a snippet of 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' as tribute to Norwegian band A-Ha (The sky over Oslo was indeed very blue!) . Band member Magne 'Mags' Furuholmen is at the show. Bono reacts to fan's Bowie t-shirt during The Fly, sings bits of Jean Genie. * 'All we need is 100 Norways!' : Two massive hot air balloons hovered over the stadium as the show opened - and then the night took off....an ovation from 40,000 jumping Norwegians. (And, let's be honest, some very fine, very young and very good looking examples of the human kind!) 'Thank you Paddy Casey,' notes Bono, of a great support set earlier while Edge introduced New Year's Day on the piano. 'A new Irish artist coming through.'...Adam takes the chance to wander through a sea of people along the b-stage, a different experience tonight as the floor of the venue is gigantic and there is no real grandstand. Then, as if out of nowhere, someone buzzes the sky in a parachute and as Bono raises his arms in welcome, everyone claps a steady time with Larry. 'Truly, truly beautiful,' announces the singer as Beautiful Day...'The sun always shines on TV,' adlibbs Bono, always available with the right cultural reference, this one well-received in in the land of Aha. 'Thank you for coming out,' he adds, before repeating his gratitude, this time in Norwegian. 'Thank you for giving us a great life. We're just getting started actually...'...Someone lucky gets to take her bow on stage and slowdance the rockstar for All I Want Is You. 'You say you want a diamond in a ring of gold...' (She'd settle for this any time!) 'Four notes, four notes can be so simple' and Edge plays those four notes and we're about to be treated with a Miracle Drug. 'We'd like to play this tonight for Jan Paulsen, woke up and couldn't speak his native language. He woke up speaking English...if you believe that! He came to see us backstage and he looks great -handsome Norwegian that he is.'...'This is a piece of grafitti sitting on a wall, it says 'CoeXisT'... you've got that going on here I think in Oslo - 'CoeXisT'.'...'We'd like to dedicate this (Miss Sarajevo) to all those who lost their lives in London, Turkey and the Middle East in the last few weeks' we're turning our song into a prayer.'...Adam and Bono are cruising the b-stages, with Adam shaking hands with people while also playing a bass guitar. (You had to be there!) 'This is the time. We've been trying to make poverty history,' raps Bono. 'This kind of poverty we can stop and we will stop.' 'At this point of the show,' he continues. 'I am usually pleading with local governments but your country Norway is doing more than any other country in the world. It is humbling and overwhelming. 'It's hard when a rock star has nothing to give out about. I would like to thank Prime Minister Bondevik and Hilda Johnson for all their hard work on this stuff. I want to thank all of you for giving them the permission to spend your money. All we need is 100 Norways!' During One Bono reaches out for the Norwegian flag and hangs it over his microphone. There's a snatch of The Jean Genie in The Fly, as Bono warns, 'Look out Oslo, I'm running out of change, There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange.' By the end of the show it is almost dark, you can see lights on the trees next to the stage and you suddenly remember you are in Scandinavia and it's real pretty. The balloons, the tower of lights the stage with the band. Bono in middle of 40.000 Norways. * Edge travelled to tell us it´s gonna be alright! : Bono said that "The Edge is really from the future! And he have travelled back in our time to tell us that it`s gonna be alright!" It was so funny! Especially for Edge, who just stood there laughing! * The girl who danced with Bono : Pernille Jørgensen from Halden [Norway, near Swedish border] talks to Dagbladet about the experience she calls 'the best two minutes of her life', dancing with Bono on stage. Says the 18 year old: 'Bono smelt like a real man. Not manly sweat, but just sweaty enough, good and proper male perfume.' Pernille says she got eye contact with Bono while she sung, pointed and screamed during All I Want is You. Did Bono say anything to her while she was on stage? 'Don't speak, is the only thing I remember that he said to me...' Pernille, who has been a fan for 5 years and queued for 10 hours, didn't dare look at the audience in front of her. She concentrated on Bono instead, but: '...that was almost just as scary. But then he put his head on my shoulder and I felt very safe.' Someone should bottle that manly sweat and sell it. Perhaps Sweden's Prime Minister could do with a whiff: Göran Persson has no plans to invite Bono for a meeting, according to Aftonbladet. Says Bono: 'Bondevik obviously has better taste than Sweden's Prime Minister.'" Bono and Pernille * Vertigo II = Norwegian "En, to, tre, fjorten!" / Bono heaped praise on the country and its leadership! : ...a Norwegian countdown for the second Vertigo: "En, to, tre, fjorten!" In the evening, before the show, Bono met with the Norwegian Prime Minister. NRK tv broadcast the impromptu press conference during which Bono heaped praise on the country and its leadership: "I took this meeting, very different circumstances than I usually find myself in, because normally my relationship with politicians is to put my arm around their back and try to twist their arms. But I've come to meet your Prime Minister to thank him for his leadership, and for the Norwegian leadership on the issues that mean so much to me, which is the poorest of the poor, and how a billion people on this planet still live on less than a dollar a day. It is an amazing thing for me, to be in this country, and I'm humbled and overwhelmed by the leadership."" Bono arriving in Oslo (red carpet) . Photos here and U2-Vertigo-tour

Rumor: U2 in Brazil, during Vertigo tour - July 27, 2005 - Jornal do Commercio, of Recife (northern of Brazil), reports in it´s edition of yesterday, july 27, 2005, that Bono met Culture Minister of Brazil (and singer) Gilberto Gil in Monaco´s restaurant in Italian, and Bono told Gil, U2 will play in Brazil in 2006 after the band plays in Europe. The article also says Bono would like Gil to join the band on stage. Look for the cover of the newspaper, referring to Bono and Gilberto Gil as "Old Friends", here

U2´s 'Everlasting Love' to benefit - July 27, 2006 - U2, Madonna on New Covers Album - U2 and Madonna are amongst a host of top names to feature on a new covers album, which is appropriately titled Between the Covers. The album will be released on September 12 on Legacy records with proceeds going to TJ Martell Foundation to help combat Leukaemia, AIDS, and Cancer:The full track list for Between the Covers is: ... Everlasting Love - U2 .... albumvote