JULY 3: Bono dances/plays with a white flag for the rest of the show / Festival Grounds / Greg Carroll dies!

"October" tour - july 3, 1982. U2 perform in Torhout, Belgium at the Festival Grounds. Other bands of note at the Torhout/Werchter double festival are "Steve Miller Band", "Tom Tom Club", "Talking Heads" and Jackson Browne. Bono climbs the stage scaffolding and the fence separating the stage from the audience. Several people in the audience bring white flags and Bono grabs one and dances/plays with it for the rest of the show.

"War" tour - july 3, 1983. U2 perform in Werchter, Belgium at the Festival Grounds. The second stop for the Torhout/Werchter Double Festival. Bono thanks Jim Kerr of "Simple Minds", who comes onstage and the two celebrate by drinking champagne and spraying the crowd with champagne. During "11 O'Clock Tick Tock", Bono sings a verse of the "Simple Mind"'s song "Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime". Jim Kerr again comes on stage and sings another verse of the song with Bono. U2 roadie, and drum technician, Tom Mullally is called out, and when he doesn't appear the crowd start to chant, "We Want Tom!". The crowd joins with Bono in singing "Happy Birthday" to Mullally. The end of "40" is sung by the crowd for 4 minutes, and Bono reappears with Annie Lennox(and eventually Dave Stewart) to continue singing with the audience. The band take 2 1/2 weeks off after this show in order for The Edge to get married, and as a much earned break.

"Greg Carroll dies - july 3, 1986. U2 crew member Greg Carroll, whom the band added to the crew after the September 1, 1984 date in New Zealand, is killed in a motorcycle accident in Dublin while running an errand for Bono. When they accompany the body to New Zealand, Bono tells a reporter, "In the rock & roll business, the higher you climb the lonelier you become, the fewer people there are to turn to. In the short time we had together, Greg became flesh and blood. He felt like my brother." Six months later, choking back tears, Bono would later tell reporter David Breskin, "It was a devastating blow. He was doing me a favour. He was taking my bike home. Greg used to look after Ali. They used to go out dancing together. He was a best friend. I've already had it once with my mother. Now I've had it twice. The worst part is the fear. After that, when the phone rang my heart stopped every time. Now when I go away I wonder 'Will these people be here when I get back?' You start to think in those terms.... The emphasis among family and friends when we had a number one record and were a big band was on how much you'd got--and not how much you've lost. The sense of loss came home through losing Greg Carroll. But the sense of loss has continued--I feel it even now." Adam Clayton also commented on the loss of Carroll, "For me, it inspired the awareness that there are more important things than rock & roll. That your family, your firends and indeed the other members of the band--you don't know how much time you've got with them." Bono writes "One Tree Hill" in remembrance of Carroll after returning from New Zealand where he attended the funeral. "The Joshua Tree" album is dedicated to Carroll's memory.

"ZOOTV-Zooropa" tour - july 3, 1993. U2 perform in Verona, Italy at Stadio Bentegodi.