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“Larry started playing that beat, while Edge was playing something else entirely. Bono said, ‘Whatever you’re doing, don’t stop!’ So we kept playing and he improvised that melody”: How a spontaneous studio jam sparked an unexpected moment of U2 magic

Adam Clayton reveals the story behind one of U2’s defining bass-driven riffs – and how he evolved as a player

Guitar World

"This song is not a rebel song." The story behind U2's emotional, controversial, and often misunderstood, protest anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday

How rage, despair and a desire for peace fuelled a U2 classic

Louder

"Edge left. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit." How Bono and The Edge's faith in Jesus almost destroyed U2

Fears that Christianity was incompatible with life in a rock band caused much soul-searching for U2 in the early '80s, and almost led the band to break up

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U2’s Larry Mullen Jr on his dyscalculia: Counting bars is like climbing Everest

The Irish musician revealed that he cannot count or add because of the learning difficulty.

Evening Standard

“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music”: The Edge confirms new U2 activity, with Larry Mullen Jr back and Brian Eno "involved", is afoot

Band haven’t released a new album for seven years

MusicRadar

“Edge smacked me. It was a full-on rumble.” The night that U2 guitarist The Edge punched Bono in the face onstage

U2's first US tour, in December 1980, was intense, not least when they stopped one show to brawl

Louder

U2's Adam Clayton rubbishes rumours Larry Mullen won't go on tour with them again

Mullen's revealed he had to undergo surgery to fix an injury caused by drumming

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Exclusive excerpt from Bono's new memoir: The story behind "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

Each of the 40 chapters is named after a U2 song. Bono did the illustrations.

Axios

Best RTE Late Late Show moments as legendary show turns 60

The national institution is one of the world’s longest-running chat shows, enduring throughout the decades as a chronicle of Irish life

Irish Mirror

New Netflix drama set to tell the story behind U2’s early years as a band

U2 is made up of Bono on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, The Edge as lead guitarist, Adam Clayton on bass guitar and Larry Mullen on drums.

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