Author Archives: Jimmy

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you turn. Bono’s on morning TV Talking about poverty And Edge is out and about at social gatherings.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Hopes of CDs out in the stores 2… Continue reading »

 
With over 7,000 items in our news archives, it’s a safe bet you haven’t read all of them! This month we start our look at 1989.

With and Without U2, Hot Press

The group that were once, by their own admission, the “world’s worst covers band,” … Continue reading »

Bono appeared on Charlie Rose’s PBS show on Thursday in a full-length interview that ran close to an hour. (Clips of the interview also aired on CBS This Morning, where Rose is a co-host.) Rose and Bono taped the interview Wednesday in New York City.
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An interview with Bono by Charlie Rose on his PBS show is scheduled to air Thursday, May 16. CBS This Morning aired part of Rose’s Bono interview as well, sharing a bit of it online. Continue reading »

Bono and Mary J. Blige performed two songs together on Monday night at the Robin Hood Foundation’s 25th anniversary gala in New York City. They started with “Moment Of Surrender” and then did “One,” a song that Blige covered back in 2005. The event ra… Continue reading »

I think the high from the 2013 U2 Conference is finally starting to wear off (yup, it was THAT good). But it was refreshing to have U2 once again take center stage in my professional life. Fatherhood, working retail full-time and applying for a new m… Continue reading »

Bono is reportedly going to front the Irish band Aslan next month during a charity gig for Christy Dignam. “A Night For Christy” is scheduled for June 21st at Dublin’s Olympia Theatre. Tickets are available now via Ticketmaster.ie.
Dignam has been Asl… Continue reading »

There’s probably a big party happening Friday night in Dublin … or maybe New York City … or the south of France … or somewhere! That’s because Bono is celebrating his 53rd birthday, so please join us in wishing everyone’s favorite singer/lyricis… Continue reading »

Bono will apparently be appearing in a new TV documentary before he appears in a new U2 album. Ireland’s RTE-TV has announced a series of new summer programs and it includes a documentary that’s described as “The Meaning Of Life with Bono.” There’s no… Continue reading »

[Ed. note: This is the 76th in a series of personal essays by the @U2 staff about songs and/or albums that have had great meaning or impact in our lives.]
My world in the autumn of 2006 was very dark — I’d recently lost the love of my life, was … Continue reading »