"Early Ireland" - september 25, 1976 - Larry Mullen, Jr. posts a note on the bulletin board at Dublin's Mount Temple Comprehensive School seeking other musicians to start a band. The group of students' first meeting is at Larry's house; they set up in the kitchen, and play the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" and "Satisfaction." The entire group includes Larry, Dave and Dik Evans, Adam Clayton, Paul Hewson, Peter Martin, and Ivan McCormick made U2's First Meeting on Saturday September 25, 1976 (as mentioned in journalist Neil McCormick's 2004 book "Killing Bono/I Was Bono's Doppelganger" on page 18).
"Boy" tour - september 25, 1980. U2 perform in Liverpool, England at Brady's.
"The Joshua Tree" tour - september 25, 1987. U2 perform in JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A huge crowd come to see U2 perform -- 86,145 tickets are sold for the venue. Bono again kids about his injury, "Well, as you can probably see, it looks like I busted my shoulder up a little bit bad, but the joke around the band is that they busted my shoulder up to stop me playing guitar!" Two fans jump on stage during "Unforgettable Fire", and Bono motions toward his shoulder, asking them not to touch him, "I'd dance with you, my friends...only my arm is in a sling, you get the picture..." Bono improvised the end of "Bullet the Blue Sky": "So I went walking through Philadelphia, to the streets and the side streets and on and off those little campuses et cetera...And then I found myself in this big, round open space made of concrete and steel called the JFK! And I said, 'If this is America, I like it!' And I thought about my arm in a sling, and the way I feel walking up on to the stage in a rock & roll show, and I said it doesn't matter a shit! Because this is not Las Vegas...this is not show business...this is rock & roll. And that's when I knew that I had run...into the arms of...America!" Bruce Springsteen joins the band for an encore performance of "Stand By Me". Support is Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul.
"ZOOTV" tour - september 25, 1992. U2 perform in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia Dome. That afternoon, the band and members of the crew get together to discuss the upcoming Australian Tour. It is decided to postpone the tour into 1993 -- the band are tired and agree they would not be able to give the type of performances that would be expected from them. U2 are the first band to play in the Georgia Dome which opened a month earlier. Due to miscommunication with the stadium's staff, the house lights remain on during "Zoo Station". When Bono calls the White House that evening, he asks why the staff did not accept the invitation to attend the September 23rd, 1992 concert in Columbia, South Carolina. The operator laughs and gets one of her colleagues onto the line, "Operator Two?" Bono asks with amazement, "She's my favorite! I'm getting to know their names! Is that Operator Two?" "Yes," the operator says to which Bono responds, "Hi, I just wanna say I got a crush on you." Bono explains to the two operators that U2 would have really treated them well in South Carolina, and "Operator Two" explains that the staff was just too busy for that type of trip. "Well, darling," Bono finishes, "We really would like to see you at a U2 concert, so if you should change your mind you just give us a call. In the meantime, if you could pass a message on to the President - just tell him to..." The operator cuts in with the end of the statement, "Watch more TV...thank you for calling us, bye." Support is B.P. Fallon, "Big Audio Dynamite II" and "Public Enemy".
"Bono appeals for debt relief at World Bank meeting in Prague" - september 25, 2000. Bono appears in Prague at a joint meeting of the World Bank/IMF to urge international cancellation of Third World debts.
68th 'VERTIGO' show - september 25, 2005 - Milwaukee, WI - Bradley Center - Dashboard Confessional. Bono mentions the 29th anniversary of the 1st meeting in Larry´s kitchen-G8 agreed to 100% debt cancellation for 38 of the world´s poorest countries-IRA will turn and destroy all the weapons / 'Who´s Gonna Ride..."=Edge, on the walkway with Bono, seemed to be playing a different song (they laughed) / 40 is dedicated to bass tech Stuart Morgan! City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., The Ocean, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Beautiful Day - Many Rivers to Cross, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, 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): The First Time, Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, With or Without You, All Because of You, Yahweh, 40. Bono tells the crowd that tonight is the 29th anniversary of the first time U2 ever met and played together as a band and reminisces about the days when they were just starting out. He sings a couple lines from 'In a Little While' at the end of Still Haven't Found. He praises the recent IRA disarmament agreement and holds an Irish flag during Sunday Bloody Sunday. Bono and Edge fumble through Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, stopping and restarting to get it right. 40 is dedicated to bass tech Stuart Morgan, who is not at the show after the recent death of his mother. **** 'We had some great news today': A doubly historic day with debt relief for Africa and guns laid down in Ireland - a night of celebration in Milwaukee. Africa has been a dominant theme in every one of U2's shows since setting out on Vertigo-05 and yesterday news came from both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that they would ratify the historic deal made by the G8 leaders in July to cancel the debts of up to 38 countries. No wonder Bono was pleased, no-one's worked harder on a political campaign that took off in the late 1990¿s. It was great to be in Milwaukee with 20,000 other U2 lovers and share the moment. 'That was dedicated to our friends who've done their work on Africa,' explained Bono, after a dazzling version of Miracle Drug. 'We had some great news through today. Today is the end of so many years work on the Drop The Debt campaign - thirty eight of the poorest countries on the planet have been set free. I'd like to congratulate the World Bank and the IMF - they made the right choices. Choices they made because of you.'...Could any song top Sunday Bloody Sunday as a moment to offer a nod to another piece of history in the making - the news that the IRA are decommissioning all their weapons. Bono pulled an Irish flag from the audience in the middle of the song and started to explain how, when he was young, he was never comfortable with it. 'But tomorrow I will feel proud to raise this flag. Because tomorrow sees the end of what is known as 'the Troubles' in Ireland...You will see on your evening news the Provisional IRA have decided to destroy all their weapons, this is a brave and courageous decision. And we want to salute that ...' Rarely has a song been quite so topical, maybe not since that night of filming in 1987 for 'Rattle and Hum'... but tonight the emotions were entirely the opposite....a real tour moment as Adam and Bono stand on the elipse, lights full on and bursting from the stage behind . 'All you need is love' sang Bono as another fab four introduce a song called One. 'Milwaukee! That is great. this could be a good moment...phones - make a pretty picture, turn this arena into the milky way. Wow that's a C21st moment right there...' And it is, the power of One, the power of all these people with all this technology, all this goodwill.. and all these great songs. After that we were in the home straight and wanting it never to end: First Time, followed by Wild Horses, With or Without You, All Because of You and then, a double benediction in Yahweh and '40'. **** Bono and the boys throw a birthday bash: That was just one of the lessons learned Sunday night at the Bradley Center when a sold-out crowd joined U2 for a birthday celebration that affirmed the power of music to inspire, unite and even effect positive change in the world. "Twenty-nine years to this day, this band met for the first day. Little boys with big ideas - probably just big heads," said Bono after the quartet treated fans to a pair of songs, "The Electric Co." and "The Ocean," from its first album, 1980's "Boy." Both songs underscored just how big the Dublin teenagers were thinking when they formed - and how thinking big, not to mention a healthy sense of humor about themselves, would become a hallmark of the band. The early songs, already full of Edge's lush, unbounded guitar work and Bono's emphatic vocals, stood as equals in quality and vision to 2000's "Elevation" and 1987's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," which book-ended them. The near-two hour set was more than an anniversary retrospective of the band's career, however. After opening with crowd-showering confetti during "City of Blinding Lights" and "Vertigo," both from 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," U2 used songs old and new as segues for causes the band believes in. Bono dedicated "Miracle Drug" to nurses and doctors, particularly those waging war against the AIDS pandemic. The singer prefaced "Miss Sarajevo," the band's haunting song of humanity during the Balkans War, with a salute to the bravery of the men and women of the American military. As the song came to a close, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights scrolled overhead on a widescreen jumbo TV. After leading the crowd through a rousing version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday," Bono took an Irish flag from the crowd and explained there was a time he wasn't comfortable waving the symbol of a country torn by war and division. "But tomorrow sees the end of what is known as 'the Troubles' in Ireland," Bono said, citing a disarmament agreement. Perhaps the evening's most emotional synthesis of sound, vision and heart came as Bono dedicated "Where the Streets Have No Name" to the nations of Africa, which have been the focus of his politicking for global debt relief. Ceiling-to-stage curtains of light bulbs displayed a scroll of the flags of that continent's nations during the song, then changed to the American flag as Bono segued into "Old Man River" and spoke of compassion for victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The evening was not all about the causes of rocks stars who loom larger than life in pop culture, of course. Bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. performed solidly but largely kept to the background, as usual. Edge's guitar has rarely sounded more immediate and complex - well, except for a fumble during one of the encores, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," when the guitarist, on the walkway with Bono, seemed to be playing a different song. Both men stopped, looked at each other and laughed. "Just give us a minute," Bono told the crowd, pulling out his ear monitor and leaning into Edge's shoulder for an all-too-human confab about what to do next. Read on: jsonline. **** 29 years ago...G8 has agreed to drop all debt for the world´s porest countries...IRA will turn and destroy all the weapons Adam was smiling, alot, and even Larry cracked a few! It was truly a birthday celebration. As Bono mentioned, this day 29 years ago, a band was formed in Larry Mullen Jr's kitchen. Two other notable announcements Bono shared, today the G8 has agreed to drop all oustanding debt for the world's poorest countries, and tomorrow the IRA will turn in and/or destroy all of it's weapons,...... seemed Bono and the boys were feeling pretty good. Bono hit the operetic of "Miss Sarajevo" on the mark. A couple of humorous moments, Bono came in a bit early on one song and forgot the verse for "White Horses" on the tip of the elipse only to get helped out by the Edge, and with grins were back on track. They were having fun with it and the fans as well. **** Some photos on: U2tours. U2tours. The girl who danced with Bono.
SUPERDOME RE-OPEN: 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' / 'House of the Rising Sun' - 'The Saints are Coming' - 'Beautiful Day' - September 25, 2006 - New Orleans, La, Superdome - U2 and Green Day perform a short set together at the reopening of the Superdome. Edge performs 'Wake Me Up...' with Green Day, and the rest of U2 take the stage for a 3-song medley that ends with a bit of 'Beautiful Day.' The performance is broadcast on ESPN prior to a Monday Night Football game between the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints. It's the first football game at the Superdome since Hurricane Katrina, and proceeds from Internet downloads of the performance are earmarked for the Music Rising program. Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Spike Lee were there, too.
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Interference * U2-Vertigo-tour * U2daily * Saint's fans in New Orleans
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