Our “How to Reassemble An Atomic Bomb” aka “Shadow album” episode is finally out! Sorry for the delay but dealing with the tragic fires here in LA took precedence. #U2fam
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“Here’s to the future. The only limits are the limits of our imagination. Dream up the kind of world you wanna live in. Dream out loud at high volume that’s what we do for a living. Lucky bastards.” #U2fam #U2community #u2conference
35 years ago tonight Bono gives the Dublin Pointe Depot crowd his infamous “gotta go away & dream it all up again” speech. What would become a career saving & career redefining decision. #U2fam #U2community #u2conference
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Who wants to try & explain “the sand inside the pearl/you were the luckiest man in the world”? P.S. our Shadow album episode is coning soon #U2fam #U2community #u2conference youtu.be/YbPqlbpNTeU?...
Why didn’t the Shadow songs make HTDAAB? Larry & Adam said the Chris Thomas sessions had no magic. Lillywhite had the gravitas to steer the band away from the experimental & towards the conventional so Bono didn’t finish lyrics #U2fam
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Now that we have the Shadow album, what should’ve been the 12 songs to make HTDAAB? Do Evidence of Life, Treason, Happiness, Luckiest, Country Mile make it? What gets the ax? It’s harder than you think. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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Loving the Shadow album but why didn’t they just dispense with Re-Assembling & use the 6 best of these as the cornerstone of the next record? Maybe then we’d get a new record & tour in ‘25 instead of more likely ‘26 or ‘27 #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
Out now! The U2 Origin Story & new expanded Boy episode. We set out to do a U2 History in podcast form & this finally completes it. Hopefully we’ve left something behind for the #U2community that stands the test of time. Cheers! #U2fam #U2conference
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Tune in tomorrow for our U2 Origin episode - did you know #U2 scored its 1st TV appearance on RTE’s Youngline on 3/2/78 by fooling the booker into thinking they wrote The Ramones’ “Glad to See You Go”? #U2fam #U2community #U2conference via @YouTube
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Actually, no one responded to Larry’s post on the Mt Temple bulletin board. Find out who finally showed up in Larry’s kitchen 9/25/76 & how they got there in our U2 origin story episode Monday #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
Excited to announce we’ve got 2 new episodes next week: A comprehensive U2 origin story & a new expanded Boy episode. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
Definitely liking this. A little hint of Pop era that’s been absent the past couple decades. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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While we prepare a new U2 Origin Story Episode here’s a Songs that Inspired U2 Playlist #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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October released 43 yrs ago. Made amidst internal strife & outside pressures that nearly ended the band, it contains some of U2’s deepest & most unguarded music ever. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference via @YouTube
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R&H 36 yrs ago today. Sells 10 mil, hits galore, but the film originally to be a small art film blows up & exposes U2 to derision & charges of megalomania. Where’s Paul McGuinnes? Making the biggest deals possible-hmm #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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24 yrs ago today U2 releases “Beautiful Day.” When Edge 1st plays the cloud parting riff Bono says, “It sounds like the Edge in U2." To which Edge says, "But I am the Edge in U2. I can sound like this if I want." #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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43 years ago U2 release the Gloria single; it’s video filmed on a barge in Grand Canal Dock near Windmill Lane gets tons of play b/c rec labels hadn’t yet embraced newly launched MTV as a promotional vehicle #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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Fun fact about Larry’s bulletin board post @ Mount Temple: No one replied. Undeterred, Larry approached Adam; Edge’s guitar teacher told him to go & Lipton Villager Reggie Manuel convinced Bono to go & they gather 9/25/76 #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
40 years ago today Unforgettable Fire came out - still the U2 album that personally means the most. Here’s our Pt 1 episode on it. Pt 2 is even more deeply personal. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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Google U2 Mercy - it’s up on SoundCloud beyond the claws of Universal Music-who we can attest is relentless & battled us on every episode we used a U2 song-so if you didn’t download it off YouTube the last 20 years do it now #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
Tune in now! Our final episode: “Years of Surrender (2020-2024).”covering everything since lockdown: Bono’s book & tour; Songs of Surrender; Larry’s status; HTDAAB anniversary; the latest on the new record & much more #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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Tune in Friday for our final episode - for now. We cover everything since Covid: Bono’s book & book tour; Songs of Surrender; the David Letterman Disney+ doc; all the rumors about the new record & so much more #U2fam #U2community #U2 #U2conference
Tune in Friday for Pt 2 of SOE - our penultimate episode after combing through the #U2 catalog & its history. Only one more episode - at least until U2 puts out a new record. #U2fam #U2community #u2conference
Out now! The Making of “Songs of Experience” and the Joshua Tree Anniversary Tour. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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Songs of Experience was done in summer 2016 but after Brexit & Trump’s nomination, #U2 instead does the JT Tour while Bono rewrites the SOE lyrics to better reflect the nexus of the times. Tune in Friday for our P1 on SOE #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
In honor of U2’s iconic Live Aid performance 39 years ago today, our most intimate & personal of all our episodes. #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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In Pt 2 on SOI, the more compelling 2nd half of SOI; the i+e tour & the lasting impact of Apple-Gate on U2’s legacy @UCHEWme @TariniDan & @SongExploder @GavinFridayNews #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
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41 years ago today @ LA Sports Arena, Bono takes it too far & almost gets himself & the crowd who leaped after him killed. Robert Hilburn’s review convinces Bono to scale it back. Melody & I were there & we cover it all in our War tour episode #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
This week in our Pt 2 on SOI, the backstory to the tragic events of 5/17/74, the impetus to “Raised by Wolves” & the shattering effects on Andy Rowan aka “Guck Pants Delaney” which served as the origin story to “Bad” #U2fam #U2community #U2conference
