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Why a U2 tour ticket mix-up left Irish diplomats embarrassed

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The Independent UK

How U2 ticket u-turn put diplomats in ‘embarrassing situation’

U2’s team offered to include ‘key people’ on the guest list for a range of shows

The Independent UK

Bono joins the 15th annual Dublin Christmas Eve charity busking session

The U2 frontman joined more than 30 musicians for the 15th charity busking session

The Independent UK

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Bono joins annual Dublin city centre Christmas Eve busking session

The U2 frontman joined more than 30 musicians for the annual charity busking session.

Evening Standard

Your LG TV may get an unremovable Microsoft Copilot app in its next update, and yes, users are annoyed

LG has added Microsoft Copilot to its customers' TVs –and they can't delete it

TechRadar

Kylie Minogue gets 11th UK No 1 album as Christmas No 1 race intensifies

As Wham! top singles chart, Minogue draws level with David Bowie, Eminem, U2 and Rod Stewart in the album league table, thanks to a reissue of her 2015 Christmas LP

The Guardian - UK

Top Irish stars tipped for Celebrity Traitors by show’s host

Siobhan McSweeney says U2’s Bono would be an ideal traitor as she reflected on the success of the show’s Irish version

The Independent UK

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Coldplay, U2 and Ed Sheeran top Pollstar's most popular touring artists of the new millennium

Concert trade publication Pollstar recently published a report titled “Most Popular Touring Artists of the Millennium” - and the results may surprise you.

Euronews

Top touring artists of the new millennium revealed

The data is pulled from reported and estimated box office figures from events that occurred between 2001 and 2025

The Independent UK

“I’m still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as ‘got to’ rather than ‘get to’“: How One rescued Achtung Baby and saved U2

Track was written in just 15 minutes

MusicRadar

"I let my father know there were no bad feelings. I sorted out a lot of my anger in his departure." A death, Nirvana, U2 and a crucifixion: the surprising story behind Metallica's most successful single (and no, it isn't Enter Sandman)

With a new look, a new attitude and a dizzying new set of musical influences, Metallica crafted one of their most controversial singles. It was also their best-selling

Metal Hammer

“Pavarotti is our hero, he’s more rock’n’roll than anyone we’ve ever met before”: the story of Bono’s favourite U2 song, even though it isn’t by U2 and features an operatic legend on vocals

The epic ballad that was the sole high point of the Irish rockers’ ill-fated and experimental side-project in the mid-90s

Louder

“It’s hard to watch a friend face down their demons in front of you and come off second best”: The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity

He was signed to the same label as Dylan and Springsteen and brought the blues into the 1990s, but success eluded him

Louder

“Instruments that shaped metal forever”: The mystery Gibson SG Kirk Hammett played at Ozzy Osbourne’s last show is heading to auction – along with more than 150 other guitars from his collection

The SG was used to play a Black Sabbath cover at Back to the Beginning, and it’s headed to the auction block alongside some other choice picks from Hammett's collection

Guitar World

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“My only regret is that I don’t get to play them all as often as I would like”: U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

U2’s Adam Clayton is auctioning off a score of bass guitars that have shaped the band’s sound over the years

Metal Hammer

Watch Gene Simmons officiate at 2025's most rock'n'roll wedding

The Kiss man presided over the wedding of Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and former Butcher Babies singer Carla Harvey

BANG Premier

Bono’s part-owned luxury property at centre of stabbing shock

After police and emergency services were pictured at the spot, it has emerged Bono’s part-owned luxury property is at the centre of a stabbing shock.

Louder

“It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral

How one of the Irish rockers’ biggest hits got them back on track after a patchy period

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MusicRadar

“They had Coldplay and U2 and all the big rock groups there. So we came on and did our thing and David Lee Roth saw it and said, ‘I want Kool & the Gang to be my support act’”: How Van Halen ended up choosing an unlikely opening band for their 2012 tour

"We have the song Jump and you came up with Celebration - let’s go out and have a party," Roth told bassist Robert 'Kool' Bell

BANG Premier

Huey Morgan left U2 convinced he was a ‘f****** psycho’

After the band saw him light up a joint on a private jet, Huey Morgan says U2 thought he was a “f****** psycho”.

Marie Claire

'The Summer I Turned Pretty' Music Supervisor on Its Iconic Soundtrack—Including How They Licensed So Much Taylor Swift

Melyssa Hardwick talks about curating girlhood-inspired songs of the summer, the must-have Harry Styles moment, and more.

Louder

"That song is actually the answer to the big question - it's got real power": The story of the post-punk classic that defined a band and inspired a Hollywood movie

Its lyrics evoked vintage Scott Walker and posed the question of destiny vs. free will. More importantly, it didn't sound like U2

MusicRadar

“The Life of a Showgirl takes center stage”: An exclusive paid-for download version of Taylor Swift’s new album has sparked a high-kicking, unexpected iTunes revival

But don’t worry - she’s not ‘doing a U2’...

Guitar World

“I was playing a U2 song, and I hear drums behind me. I turn around and it was him. He and I jammed without speaking for 30 minutes”: Ozzy Osbourne collaborator Andrew Watt on the pop star who helped kickstart his production career

Watt is now a first-call producer for the biggest names in music, including the Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam, Elton John, Iggy Pop and Lady Gaga

BANG Premier

Cillian Murphy’s teenage band were like Fontaines D.C. and U2, says former guitar teacher

Cillian Murphy's old guitar teacher says his school band could have gone all the way.

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