U2 are launching their long-rumored Las Vegas residency 'U2:UV Achtung Baby Live At The Sphere' at the high-tech MSG Sphere this fall, Rolling Stone reports. The shows will celebrate their 1991 album 'Achtung Baby' in a multi-show residency, but without drummer Larry Mullen Jr., who will be recuperating from surgery. Bram van den Berg will replace him. U2 said that their "audience was always the fifth member of the band. Bottom line, U2 hasn’t played live since December 2019 and we need to get back on stage and see the faces of our fans again".

Bono doesn't like hates the band’s name, and is “embarrassed” by most of their songs, as he's told the Awards Chatter podcast (via CNN). When it comes to band's name “in our head it was like the spy plane, U-boat, it was futuristic — as it turned out to imply this kind of acquiescence, no I don’t like that name. I still don’t really like the name”. The music isn't much better either: “I’ve been in the car when one of our songs has come on the radio and I’ve been the color of, as we say in Dublin, scarlet. I’m just so embarrassed”.

Listeners to BBC Radio 2's Sounds of the 80s have chosen U2's 'The Joshua Tree' as the best album of the 1980s. Released in 1987, it made U2 one of the world's biggest bands, thanks to anthems like 'With Or Without You' and 'Where The Streets Have No Name', BBC reflects. Dire Straits' 'Brothers In Arms' came second in BBC's survey, followed by The Stone Roses' eponymous debut, Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' on fourth and Guns N' Roses' 'Appetite for Destruction' on the fifth spot.

U2 have pledged to donate €10 million for personal protective equipment (PPE) for Irish frontline medics in the fight against coronavirus. “I just don’t think this is the moment for U2 to be doing a sort of Kumbaya thing", Bono said The Irish Times - "It just doesn’t feel right for me – it feels like a time for action rather than words”.

Dr. Dre hasn’t released an album since 2015, haven't been on tour since the turn of the millennium, and his last production credit on a No. 1 hit was in 2009 (Eminem’s 'Crack a Bottle'), but still he managed to climb to the top of Forbes list of highest-earning musician of this decade. He earned […]

U2 fan site ATU2 has uncovered a live recording of the band from the summer of 1979, the oldest known recording of the Irish band, and it features two previously unheard songs. It was on August 11, exactly 40 years ago that U2 played the Dandelion Market in Dublin, and the show was taped by […]

Ed Sheeran has doubled his wealth in the last year to £160m, and he is now the 17th richest musician in the UK and Ireland, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. In 2018, Sheeran is thought to have earned more than any other musician in a single year in history, from a world tour […]