JULY 9: Naples / Stochkolm / 43rd VERTIGO show: white balloon fest, Mexican waves, Edge being strangled playfully by Bono, his arms around the guitarists neck as Edge played, 'Sexy people.. Pareeee..', 'Beautiful Day for Africa'!

"ZOOTV-Zooropa" tour - july 9, 1993. U2 perform in Naples, Italy at Stadio San Paulo.

"Elevation" tour - july 09, 2001 / Stockholm, Sweden - Globe - Stereophonics. Edge this night wears red shirt #7.

43rd 'VERTIGO' show - july 9, 2005 - Paris, France - Stade de France - Starsailor, Snow Patrol. White balloon fest / Mexican waves / Edge being strangled playfully by Bono, his arms around the guitarists neck as Edge played / 'Sexy people.. Pareeee..' / 'Beautiful Day for Africa' ! Wow! What an audience in Paris tonight. The French are wild! From the opening Mexican waves to the spontaneous white balloon fest and the deafening singing along, this was a show that took off ..and just kept rising.... The band on stage, here. Just one of a clutch of songs that Bono borrowed from during a wild show in Paris last night. It was a special night in Paris last night. Maybe it was because Bono spoke so often in French. Maybe it was because it was the first U2 show since the G8 meetings - and a vindication of pressure put on western governments by people across the world on behalf of Africa. Maybe because it was France and the band spend a lot of time in this country when they are not working. Maybe it was because Europe is still reeling from the bombs in London on Thursday... and a sense of communal hope is all the more precious....The 80,000 strong crowd were pumping from the off....Vertigo, I Will Follow and Electric Co sent everyone into a paroxysm of joy. 'I can see for miles and miles and miles..' adlibbed Bono and what he could see was French people giving it everything. The track finished with Edge being strangled playfully by Bono, his arms around the guitarists neck as Edge played and Bono sang. 'Sexy people.. Pareeee..'...during Beautiful Day, and changed the lyrics to add that yesterday, Friday, had been a 'Beautiful Day for Africa' - to great applause. A week after debuting the number with Paul McCartney before several billion people, the band finished Beautiful Day with Sgt Pepper: 'Hope you will enjoy the show..'...And with that Edge's guitar broke into Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For and 80,000 Parisians accepted Bono's invitation to 'take us to church now.' ...As Edge played the haunting piano chords and Bono blew into his harmonica, suddenly the whole dark night was burning with lighters and mobiles. 'That's beautiful!' said Bono, so inspired that he took the track off into a hymn at the end, breaking into Amazing Grace as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights began scrolling up the back of the stage. The applause and cheering from the audience was a tonic. 'I once was lost, but now I see..'...All Because Of You was followed by the psalm-like Yahweh and the final honours went to another rendition of Vertigo. U2 on screen, here. The atmosphere on stage, here. French sky. Crowd. Edge and Bono. Some photos on U2-Vertigo-tour