SEPTEMBER 20: Bono slips and falls-his arm is in a sling / 150.000 fans at Reggio Emilia / U2 shoots 'Sweetest Thing' / 65TH 'VERTIGO' show: Bono and Edge on 'Walk On' acoustic when Bono read the lyrics-'Discotheque' no 'POPMuzik'-'Dads Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car'-Bono and Edge do The First Time (1st time full)-Hello Hello Gabriel-a fan asked for Bono for "Zooropa" tune / Premiere of "A Day in the Life of Edge" (part 1), by Bono / MCGUINNESS ANSWERS TAX CRITICS!

"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - september 20, 1984. U2 perform in Adelaide, Australia at the Apollo Entertainment Centre.

"ZOOTV" tour - september 20, 1992. U2 perform in St. Louis, Missouri at Busch Memorial Stadium. Support is B.P. Fallon, "Big Audio Dynamite II" and "Public Enemy".

"The Joshua Tree" tour - september 20, 1987. U2 perform in Washington, D.C, at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Having learned from the complaints from the Giants' Stadium show on September 14, 1987, U2 add a large video screen behind the lighting tower so the people seated at the back of the stadium will have a better view. It rains, sometimes pouring, throughout the concert. During "Sunday Bloody Sunday", an Irish Tri-Color is thrown on stage. "This flag," Bono asks while holding up the green part, "What do you see?" "Green," the crowd roar back. "Green, yeah, it's green," Bono says and then holds up the orange part, "What colour do you see?" "Orange!" the crowd reply. "Now what colour do you see?" Bono asks while holding up the white part. "White!" the crowd shout and cheer. "No!" Bono shouts, "It's not WHITE! Sometimes, all I see is red...," and then goes into the "No more! No War!" chant with the crowd. During "Exit", Bono slips and falls on the wet stage. He lies on the stage for a moment or two, leaving both the band and the crowd wondering if he is really hurt or wondering if he's acting. Bono slowly stands up and finish the song. The road crew also breathe a sigh of relief. When the band return for the encore, Bono's arm is in a sling. "It may sound a bit stupid, and I feel a bit stupid, but the doctor says I might have dislocated my shoulder. Sorry 'bout that..." After the show Bono is rushed to the hospital, along with Ali who is in town for the show. Phil Joanou attempts to film in the ambulance, but Bono growls at him: "Get the fuck out of my ambulance!" Support is Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul.

"POPMart" tour - september 20, 1997. U2 perform in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The 150,000 strong crowd is the largest Italian crowd for a concert ever. At the end of the show, Bono tells the audience "You gave four Irish boys an evening they'll never forget."

'U2 shoots Sweetest Thing video in Dublin' - september 20, 1998. U2 shoots the video for the remake of "The Sweetest Thing" on the streets of Dublin. The video includes guest appearances from a host of Irish celebrities, including the members of pop band Boyzone. It is directed by Kevin Godley who also directed the video for "Even Better Than the Real Thing." ****Bonos' Wife the Leading Lady - The Chippendales, an elephant, Bono and Boyzone anyone who wandered through Fitzwilliam Square yesterday afternoon found a little more than they were looking for. U2 brought along a star-studded cast to film the video of their new single "The Sweetest Thing" in optimal weather conditions in central Dublin. The old B-side, to be released next month, was a treat for Bono's wife Ali Hewson who apparently asked her husband to get her Boyzone and "star me in a movie" for her birthday. Ali was leading lady in the video, seated with her husband in a horse-drawn carriage followed by Boyzone and the rest of U2. Jean Butler and the Riverdance crew provided the dancing moves, joined by boxer Steve Collins and the Chippendales on stilts dressed up as firemen, while an out-of-place elephant contributed further to the carnival atmosphere. - The Independent - sep 21, 1998.


65TH 'VERTIGO' show - September 20, 2005 / Chicago, IL - United Center - Dashboard Confessional. Bono and Edge on 'Walk On' acoustic when Bono read the lyrics / 'Discotheque' no 'POPMuzik' / 'Dads Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car' / Bono and Edge do The First Time (1st time full) / Hello Hello Gabriel / a fan asked for Bono for "Zooropa" tune!!! City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., The Ocean, Walk On, Beautiful Day - Sgt. Pepper's, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Yahweh, Love and Peace or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet the Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo, Pride, Where the Streets Have No Name, One - Ol' Man River. Encore(s): Discotheque, The Fly, With or Without You, All Because of You, The First Time, Bad - 40. Bono sings a bit of 'Break on Through' during Electric Co. Bono and Edge do Walk On acoustically. Bono forgets the words at the end ('All that you...') and wants Edge to end the song, but he doesn't. Bono finally finds the lyrics after flipping thru a stack of pages brought out by a crew member, cracks a joke about the situation, and the song ends. There's no Pop Muzik intro before Discotheque. He sings the line 'Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car' at the end of The Fly. Bono and Edge do The First Time - the first time the song has ever been played in full. Bono tells the crowd that a fan outside had asked to hear something from Zooropa tonight. **** The First Time in Chicago: ...'We wanna play a song that we haven't played on this tour,' raps Bono, as the band come out of a beautifully moody version of The Ocean. 'You haven't all been to a show now have you?' No time for a survey as Edge, on acoustic guitar, is already strumming the opening chords and Walk On is with us, first time since 2001 when it was the show-closing show-stopper on the Elevation Tour. 'And love is not the easy thing / The only baggage you can bring.../ And love is not the easy thing..../ The only baggage you can bring / Is all that you can't leave behind...' 'You know the lyrics,' Bono says, laughing to Edge. 'It would be great if I knew the lyrics.' At which point, the lyrics are helpfully pushed before him and he's back on song. 'You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been / A place that has to be believed to be seen / You could have flown away / A singing bird in an open cage / Who will only fly, only fly for freedom...' 'Its okay to try stuff is it?' he asks at the close of the track, 'Well, this one will never go anywhere.' ...(Walk On, The First Time). There are new words of explanation too, new meditations on where songs have come from and what they might allude to. 'Thanks for coming out, somebody much wiser than I - I think it was Chrissy Hynde from The Pretenders - said to me 'All girls stay age 13 and all boys stay age 8.' And this isn't a therapy session, but this is a song about my father..' ...when you expect Love and Peace you find the psalm-like Yahweh arriving with no introduction and a solo Edge. Larry's already in position at the tip of the ellipse for Love and Peace, as the red hearts race up and down the illuminated curtains surrounding the stage and the energy rises for Sunday, Bullet and Ms Sarajevo. This last is interesting because the audience seems slightly stunned by it - maybe because it was never a single release in the US. (Actresses Ashley and Winona Judd are both here by the way, and loving it.) 'I am because we are' explains Bono, translating a Zulu word - 'ubuntu' - learnt from Archbishop Tutu. 'I couldn't help but think of this when looking at the pictures of Louisiana... and we saw this with 9/11 and we saw this with the the hurricane ­ that's when we discover how great this country is. That's why Larry Mullen, The Edge, Adam and myself are such fans of this idea called America.'...we know it, out of nowhere comes The First Time. 'I have a lover, a lover like no other / She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul / And she teach me how to sing / Shows me colours when there's none to see / Gives me hope when I can't believe...' This is the first time the band have performed this wonderful song since Dublin in 1993 at the RDS Arena - and it felt so fresh. And the night ended with Bad...Edge: 'Hello, Hello, Gabriel!': ...I have never seen. I got to see Bono and the Edge before hand as they pulled into the stadium, Edge came right up to me and I asked if he would sign a picture I had with me of my son from his 1st birthday a few weeks ago - Edge asked what his name was and I responded Gabriel, he said "I love the name Gabriel" and then signed the picture and drew a cartoon bubble from his mouth and wrote HELLO HELLO...." Greg Shapps **** This is the guy who asked for Bono to hear something from 'Zooropa" tonight! ..."What a night, what a show, Zooropa!" It all started before the show waiting outside the U.C. I got there at 3pm but the boys didn't show up until 4! The bodyguard said they have to soundcheck and wouldn't be signing but they did anyway. The Edge came over and signed my poster (some guys iPod and laughingly said "it is already signed") and I asked if they would play Crumbs. He said "we'll see..." Bono then came by and I told him that The Edge said that they would be playing Crumbs tonight. He said "really?" Then myself and another guy asked Bono "why are you ignoring the Zooropa album on this tour?" and. "Hey what about Zooropa!?!" Bono said, "you know we've been working on Dirty Day and ...uh...what's that other song?" I said "Some Days are better than others?" he said, "no", then the other guy said "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car?" Bono said, "yeah, there's an idea! We're gonna play that tonight!" I then told Bono that "no one else does this, you're the best" Bono smacked a high five on the fence between us and told the crowd that he had a something to tell us. After the dramatic pause he said, "Chicago has the handsomest fans!" Larry and Adam just drove in....An early appearance of Yahweh made us realize something special was in store for us....At the very end of "the Fly" (what a rocking song!) Bono motioned to Larry to keep hitting the cymbal crashes and sang a few lines from "Daddy's Gonna Pay for your Crashed Car" promised kept sorta. Then the biggest surpise was when Bono mentioned my conversation with him to everyone saying, "I was talking to some guys outside before the show about this album, Zooropa" (we all cheer!) And then Bono & The Edge proceeded to play an acoustic version of "The First Time" in its ENTIRETY! Amazing. And I got a guitar pick from Dallas after the show...." by Andrew Al **** Some photos on: U2tours * flickr

Premiere of "A Day in the Life of Edge" (part 1-full), by Bono - September 20, 2006 - Al Gore's Current TV partnership with Yahoo create four new broadband channels that debuted on Wednesday with a video made by Bono during U2's last concert tour. Like the Current TV network that the former vice president created with Joel Hyatt, the new broadband channels focus on disseminating video created by young viewers. "We expect this will be the premier video online experience," Gore told The Associated Press. One of the four channels, Yahoo! Current Buzz, is being produced by Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator of The Daily Show, and will "showcase the best of what's buzzing the world and the Web," the companies said. The other channels will focus on action sports news, automotives and adventure traveling. The latter is where Bono's video — mostly about experiences with fellow band member The Edge — is being featured. Yahoo was attracted to Current because it shares the goal of giving young people a voice on the Web, said Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo's chief operating officer. The four channels are separate and distinct from Current's TV network, Gore said. But with Current only available now in 30 million of the nation's 110 million homes with televisions, the deal promises to greatly increase the visibility of its content. "The distribution reach and community of online viewers that Yahoo serves gives an unparalleled opportunity to connect the online video experience, including video-related content, with a mass audience," Gore said. The best user-created videos on the Yahoo! Current Network will be featured on Current TV each Monday afternoon. Four more Yahoo! Current channels are expected to be added by the end of next year, the companies said. some pics from nove 14, 2005 - Miami, when they recorded it * here
More than 210.000 people watched Edge in the first 12 hours.

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MCGUINNESS ANSWERS TAX CRITICS - September 20, 2006 - "The reality is that U2's business is 90% conducted around the world. 90% of our tickets and 98% of our records are sold outside of Ireland. It's where we live and where we work and where we employ a lot of people. But we pay taxes all over the world – of many different kinds. And like any other business, we are perfectly entitled to minimise the tax we pay. Ireland, has benefited economically enormously from attracting people to a low tax environment." Source Hot Press.