10/04/2007

OCTOBER 4: School of Economics / Tiffany´s / Planet Hollywood / 'Q Icon' Award / 70th 'VERTIGO' show:'Edge, Edge, Edge... Catorce!'-'It's better,' said Edge. 'It's better.'-The Edge - is this your galaxy?-"Stuck In A Moment"!

"Boy" tour - october 4, 1980. U2 perform in London, England at the School of Economics.

"October" tour - october 4, 1981. U2 perform in Glasgow, Scotland at Tiffany's. Support is "Comsat Angels".

"Planet Hollywood" - october 4, 1997. U2 invest in the Dublin "Planet Hollywood", expected to open sometime in 1998.

"U2 won Q Icon Award" - october 4, 2004. All four members of U2 are in attendance tonight at the annual Q Awards in London, hosted by Q magazine. U2 doesn't win for "Best Act in the World Today", but the magazine gives them a special "Q Icon" Award instead. Bono sings his presentation of the Merit Award to Shane McGowan of The Pogues.

70th 'VERTIGO' show October 4, 2005 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden - Keane - 'Edge, Edge, Edge... Catorce!' / 'It's better,' said Edge. 'It's better.' / The Edge - is this your galaxy? / "Stuck In A Moment"! City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, The Electric Co., Crumbs From Your Table, Still Haven't Found, Beautiful Day, 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 (acoustic), Stuck In A Moment, With Or Without You, All Because Of You, 40 **** Crumbs and Stuck in a Moment stand out in this fifth Boston show of 2005. 'Oh, you look so beautiful tonight!' sang Bono, right into the eyes of Adam as City of Blinding Lights lifted Boston for a fifth time last night. Adam and Larry's names rang out at the beginning of Vertigo before a new lyrical twist kicked the night's theme song into orbit: 'Edge, Edge, Edge... Catorce!' ...And then the first big surprise of the night, Crumbs From Your Table, with the singer adding an acoustic flourish. It felt like a bit of a 'moment' - the band catching each others eyes, almost surprised to find themselves performing this wonderful song. That was a first - no, that was a second,' remembers Bono. 'A second. We like to play some rarities, stuff like that - to keep interested.'...Miracle Drug with a reminder that Edge too is from the future, arriving in a spaceship on the north side of Dublin to regale the teenage drummer, bassman and vocalist with tales from the edge of time. 'What's the future like?' asked Adam, actually Bono, and sounding curiously like Prince Charles. 'It's better,' said Edge. 'It's better.' 'This might be the time to take out your phones / And make a picture / A C21st picture. / What sort of galaxy is this ? / The Edge - is this your galaxy?' ...'It's the same struggle for equality, that a life is treated with the same value in Boston, Louisiana, Mozambique... ' 'Around this time of year I think of a really cool friend of ours,' explains Bono. 'And we'd like to play a song. We haven't done this actually at all, I mean we have - but not like this.' Well, any way you like is just fine with us for Stuck In A Moment, a song written for the late Michael Hutchence, who died in the Autumn of 1997.... Some photos on

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