U2, IL MEGLIO DI UN ANNO

Uno speciale regalo di fine anno è apparso oggi sul sito ufficiale degli U2. 10 contenuti multimediali, i migliori del 2009 secondo Bono Vox e compagni, condivisi in una raccolta gratuita sulle pagine web della band. Ci sono video, backstage, interviste, album fotografici e tanto altro. Un ottimo modo per intrattenersi aspettando la mezzanotte.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ORIGINAL OF THE SPECIES

Baby slow down
The end is not as fun as the start
Please stay a child somewhere in your heart

I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
And I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it

Some things you shouldn't get too good at
Like smiling, crying and celebrity
Some people got way too much confidence baby

I'll give you everything you want
Except the thing that you want
You are the first one of your kind

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want the lot of what you got
And I want nothing that you're not

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it, no
And you'll never be alone
Come on now show your soul
You've been keeping your love under control

Everywhere you go you shout it
You don't have to be shy about it

Everywhere you go you shout it
Oh my my

And you feel like no-one before
You steal right under my door
I kneel ‘cos I want you some more
I want you some more, I want you some more…

VIDEO CONCERTO U2

Where The Streets Have No Name

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ONE STEP CLOSER

I'm 'round the corner from anything that's real
I'm across the road from hope
I'm under a bridge in a rip tide
That's taken everything I call my own

One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing

I'm on an island at a busy intersection
I can't go forward, I can't turn back
Can't see the future
It's getting away from me
I just watch the tail lights glowing

One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
Knowing, knowing

I'm hanging out to dry
With my old clothes
Finger still red with the prick of an old rose
Well the heart that hurts
Is a heart that beats
Can you hear the drummer slowing

One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
One step closer to knowing
To knowing, to knowing, to knowing

UN LIBRO SUGLI U2 NEGLI STATES

"U2 by U2". Questo è il titolo del nuovo volume sulla band irlandese uscito negli Stati Uniti d'America. Eccovi un passaggio del libro:

Nel 1975, quattro ragazzi della Mount Temple School di Dublino erano riuniti in una cucina affollata per discutere su come formare una band. La batteria a stento entrava nella stanza, il chitarrista suonava una chitarra fatta in casa, il bassista riusciva a malapena a suonare, e nessuno voleva cantare. Oltre trenta anni più tardi, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton e Larry Mullen Jr sono ancora insieme, legati da fedeltà intensa, appassionato idealismo e la convinzione inarrestabile del potere del rock and roll di cambiare il mondo ....

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO CRUMBS FROM YOUR TABLE

From the brightest star
Comes the blackest hole
You had so much to offer
Why did you offer your soul?
I was there for you baby
When you needed my help
Would you deny for others
What you demand for yourself?

Cool down mama, cool off
Cool down mama, cool off

You speak of signs and wonders
I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

You were pretty as a picture
It was all there to see
Then your face caught up with your psychology
With a mouth full of teeth
You ate all your friends
And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends

You speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

Where you live should not decide
Whether you live or whether you die
Three to a bed
Sister Ann, she said
Dignity passes by

And you speak of signs and wonders
But I need something other
I would believe if I was able
I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table

CONCERTI U2 IN ITALIA, UN ALTRO VIDEO

Ecco un altro video registrato al concerto degli U2 del 7 luglio 2009 a Milano. Il brano è Magnificent, secondo singolo estratto da No Line On The Horizon.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO A MAN AND A WOMAN

Little sister don't you worry about a thing today
Take the heat from the sun
Little sister
I know that everything is not ok
But you're like honey on my tongue

True love never can be rent
But only true love can keep beauty innocent

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman
No I could never take a chance
‘Cos I could never understand
The mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

You can run from love
And if it's really love it will find you
Catch you by the heel
But you can't be numb for love
The only pain is to feel nothing at all
How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

I could never take a chance
Of losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

And you're the one, there's no-one else
You make me want to lose myself
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman



Brown eyed girl across the street
On rue Saint Divine
I thought this is the one for me
But she was already mine
You were already mine…

Little sister
I've been sleeping in the street again
Like a stray dog
Little sister
I've been trying to feel complete again
But you're gone and so is God

The soul needs beauty for a soul mate
When the soul wants… the soul waits …

No I could never take a chance
On losing love to find romance
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

For love and sex and faith and fear
And all the things that keep us here
In the mysterious distance
Between a man and a woman

How can I hurt when I'm holding you?

CONCERTI U2, UN VIDEO DA SAN SIRO

Get on your boots, eseguita dal vivo al concerto degli U2 del 7 luglio 2009 allo Stadio San Siro di Milano. Godiamocelo in attesa dei nuovi concerti della band di Bono Vox in Italia.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ALL BECAUSE OF YOU

I was born a child of grace
Nothing else about the place
Everything was ugly but your beautiful face
And it left me no illusion

I saw you in the curve of the moon
In the shadow cast across my room
You heard me in my tune
When I just heard confusion

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am… I am

I like the sound of my own voice
I didn't give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train

Some people get squashed crossing the tracks
Some people got high rises on their backs
I'm not broke but you can see the cracks
You can make me perfect again

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am… I am

I'm alive
I'm being born
I just arrived, I'm at the door
Of the place I started out from
And I want back inside

All because of you
All because of you
All because of you
I am

THE UNFORGETTABLE FIRE RIMASTERIZZATO

Il quarto studio album deli U2, uscito nell'ottobre del 1984, è stato rimasterizzato ed è di unovo in distribuzione per la Mercury Records.

La riedizione di The Unforgettable Fire, il primo album degli U2 prodotto da Brian Eno e Danny Lanois, festeggia i 25 anni di uno degli album più apprezzati dalla band. L'orignale fu registrato allo Slane Castle, e fu preceduto dalla pubblicazione di due singoli che ebbero un incredibile successo in tutto il mondo: "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" e "The Unforgettable Fire".

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS

The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now

Neon heart dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
For people like us

And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground….

Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh

Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights

Don't look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs purple irises
The camera can't see

I've seen you walk unafraid
I've seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me

And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground

Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh

Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights

Time… time
Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man

Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights

The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel… luckily

AUGURI DI BUON NATALE

Un felicissimo Natale a tutti i supporters italiani degli U2!

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO LOVE AND PEACE OR ELSE

Lay down
Lay down
Lay your sweet lovely on the ground
Lay your love on the track
We're gonna break the monster's back
Yes we are…
Lay down your treasure
Lay it down now brother
You don't have time
For a jealous lover

As you enter this life
I pray you depart
With a wrinkled face
And a brand new heart

I don't know if I can take it
I'm not easy on my knees
Here's my heart you can break it

I need some release, release, release

We need
Love and peace
Love and peace

Lay down
Lay down your guns
All your daughters of Zion
All your Abraham sons

I don't know if I can make it
I'm not easy on my knees
Here's my heart and you can break it
I need some release, release, release

We need
Love and peace
Love and peace

Baby don't fight
We can talk this thing through
It's not a big problem
It's just me and you
You can call or I'll phone
The TV is still on
But the sound is turned down
And the troops on the ground
Are about to dig in

And I wonder where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Love and peace

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN

Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I… that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need… I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me – when – I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me…

Where are we now?
I've got to let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

U2: I Believe In Father Christmas

Esattamente un anno fa gli U2 registravano una cover di I Believe In Father Christmas, un brano di Greg Lake dei leggendari Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Il brano uscì per raccogliere fondi per un progetto di RED destinato ai paesi poveri.

REMIX ALBUM DEGLI U2 IN EDIZIONE LIMITATA

Gli iscritti al sito ufficiale degli U2 potranno da oggi acquistare "Artificial Horizon", un remix album in edizione limitata riservato agli iscritti del sito U2.com. L'iscrizione annuale al sito costa 50 dollari, e si potrà scegliere se scaricare l'album dal web, ritirarlo al prossimo concerto degli U2, oppure farselo spedire a casa.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO MIRACLE DRUG

I want to trip inside your head
Spend the day there…
To hear the things you haven't said
And see what you might see

I want to hear you when you call
Do you feel anything at all?
I want to see your thoughts take shape
And walk right out

Freedom has a scent
Like the top of a new born baby's head

The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough I'm not giving up
On a miracle drug

Of science and the human heart
There is no limit
There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit…

I am you and you are mine
Love makes nonsense of space
And time… will disappear
Love and logic keep us clear
Reason is on our side, love…

The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough of romantic love
I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug

God I need your help tonight

Beneath the noise
Below the din
I hear a voice
It's whispering
In science and in medicine
“I was a stranger
You took me in”

The songs are in your eyes
I see them when you smile
I've had enough of romantic love
I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up
For a miracle, miracle drug

Miracle, miracle drug

CONCERTO U2 A WEMBLEY, ONLINE

Potete riascoltare da oggi in streaming web lo speciale di un'ora trasmesso da radio BBC 2 sul concerto degli U2 a Wembley. Per ascoltarlo basta selezionarlo tra la vasta offerta online dell'emittente di stato inglese su www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO VERTIGO

Unos dos tres catorce!

Lights go down, it's dark
The jungle is your head
Can't rule your heart
A feeling is so much stronger than
A thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It can't be bought
Your mind can wander

Hello hello
I'm at a place called Vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something I can feel, feel

The night is full of holes
As bullets rip the sky
Of ink with gold
They twinkle as the
Boys play rock and roll
They know they can't dance
At least they know….

I can't stand the beats
I'm asking for the cheque
The girl with crimson nails
Has Jesus round her neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music
Oh oh oh oh

Hello hello
I'm at a place called Vertigo
It's everything I wish I didn't know
But you give me something I can feel, feel

Check mated
Oh yeah
Hours of fun…

All of this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours

All of this, all of this can be yours
Just give me what I want and no-one gets hurt….

Hello hello
We're at a place called Vertigo
Lights go down and all I know
Is that you give me something

I can feel your love teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel…

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

KILLING BONO, UN FILM SULL'OMICIDIO DEL LEADER DEGLI U2

Un titolo scioccante. Killing Bono. Uscirà nel corso del 2010 questo film che narra l'avventura di due coetanei di Bono, invidiosi del successo degli U2 e intenzionati a ucciderne il leader. Il film è tratto dal romanzo "Killing Bono: I was doppelganger Bono", scritto da Neil McCornick. Nel cast del film Kristen Ritter (foto), Ben Barnes, Charles Cox e Robbie Sheehan. La regia è di Nick Hamm, quello di Godsend – il male è rinato e The Hole. Insomma ci aspettiamo un bel thriller mozzafiato.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO I WILL FOLLOW

I was on the outside when you said
You said you needed me
I was looking at myself
I was blind, I could not see
A boy tries hard to be a man
His mother takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry
Oh why

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow
I will follow

I was on the inside
When they pulled the four walls down
I was looking through the window
I was lost, I am found

Walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow
If you walkaway, walkaway,
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow
I will follow

Your eyes make a circle
I see you when I go in there
Your eyes...your eyes...your eyes...your eyes

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow

If you walkaway, walkaway
I walkaway, walkaway
I will follow
I will follow
I will follow
I will follow
I will follow...follow

THE EDGE: SIAMO ANCORA AFFAMATI

Gli U2 sono ancora affamati. E non smetteranno di tentare di realizzare ogni volta il miglior album della loro carriera. Così The Edge al Rolling Stones, in un'intervista per celebrare i riconoscimenti dati alla band agli U2 nel 2009: No Line on the Horizon "Album dell'anno", e Moment of Surrender "Canzone dell'Anno".

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO WINDOW IN THE SKIES

The shackles are undone
The bullet's quit the gun
The heat that's in the sun
Will keep us when there's none
The rule has been disproved
The stone it has been moved
The grain is now a groove
All debts are removed

[chorus]
Oh can't you see what our love has done?
Oh can't you see what our love has done?
Oh can't you see what our love has done?
What it's doing to me?

Love makes strange enemies
Makes love where love may please
Soul in its strip tease
Hate brought to its knees

The sky over our head
We can reach it form our bed
If you let me in your heart
And out of my head

Oh can't you see what our love has done?
Oh can't you see what our love has done?
Oh can't you see what our love has done?
What it's doing to me?

Ooh ooh oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh ooh oh oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Please don't ever let me out of here...
I've got no shame, oh no, oh no

Oh can't you see what love has done?
Oh can't you see?
Oh can't you see what love has done?
What it's doing to me?

[chorus in background]
I know I hurt you and I made you cry
Did everything but murder you and I
But love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

[chorus in background]
Oh can't you see what love has done?
To every broken heart
For every heart cries
Love left a window in the skies
And to love I rhapsodize

Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Oh can't you see.
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh...
Ooh ooh ooh

CONCERTO U2 A WEBLEY, TRA DUE ORE E MEZZA

Alle otto (ore italiane) BBC 2 trasmetterà il concerto degli U2 registrato il 15 agosto 2009 allo stadio di Webley.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO THE SAINTS ARE COMING

(feat. Green Day)

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one

I cried to my daddy on the telephone
How long now
Until the clouds unroll and you come home
The line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent
Your descent

I cried to my daddy on the telephone
How long now
Until the clouds unroll and you come home
The line went
But the shadows still remain since your descent
Your descent

Boom-cha hey

The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply

A drowning sorrow floods the deepest grief
How long now
Until a weather change condemns belief
How long now
When the night watchman lets in the thief
What's wrong now

Boom-cha hey

The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply
The saints are coming, the saints are coming
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply
I say no matter how I try, I realise there's no reply

CONCERTO U2 SU BBC RADIO 2

Lunedì 21 dicembre BBC Radio 2 trasmetetrà il concerto degli U2 registrato a Wembley il 15 agosto del 2009. Allo stadio di Webmley gli U2 hanno suonato per due date nel corso della prima sessione del 360° Tour. La radio pubblica inglese trasmetterà una selezione di brani, il tutto per un'ora di trasmissione, tra le 7 e le 8 di sera (in italia 20:00-21:00).

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN

Tough, you think you've got the stuff
You're telling me and anyone
You're hard enough

You don't have to put up a fight
You don't have to always be right
Let me take some of the punches
For you tonight

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

We fight all the time
You and I...that's alright
We're the same soul
I don't need...I don't need to hear you say
That if we weren't so alike
You'd like me a whole lot more

Listen to me now
I need to let you know
You don't have to go it alone
And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you when I don't pick up the phone
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

I know that we don't talk
I'm sick of it all
Can - you - hear - me - when - I -
Sing, you're the reason I sing
You're the reason why the opera is in me...

Where are we now?
I've got to let you know
A house still doesn't make a home
Don't leave me here alone...

And it's you when I look in the mirror
And it's you that makes it hard to let go
Sometimes you can't make it on your own
Sometimes you can't make it
The best you can do is to fake it
Sometimes you can't make it on your own

WINTER RICEVE LA NOMINATION PER IL GOLDEN GLOBE

Winter, il brano che gli U2 hanno scritto per la colonna sonora del film di Jim Sheridan "Brothers". Lo ha annunciato la Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), che ha nominato il pezzo degli U2 per la categoria "Best Original Song-Motion Picture".

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO WALK ON

And love is not the easy thing
The only baggage that you can bring
Love is not the easy thing
The only baggage you can bring
Is all that you can't leave behind...

And if the darkness is to keep us apart
And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off
And if your glass heart should crack
And for a second you turn back
Oh no, be strong

Oh, oh
Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No, they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight

You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed, to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly, for freedom

Oh, oh
Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't deny it
Can't sell it, or buy it
Walk on, walk on
You stay safe tonight

And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
You can only take so much

Walk on...
Walk on...

Home...
Hard to know what it is, if you never had one
Home...
I can't say where it is, but I know I'm going
Home...
That's where the hurt is...

And I know it aches
And your heart, it breaks
And you can only take so much

Walk on...
(Hooo)

Leave it behind
You got to leave it behind
All that you fashion
All that you make
All that you build
All that you break
All that you measure
All that you feel

All this you can leave behind

All that you reason, (it's only time)
(Love is a feeling on my mind)
All that you sense
All that you scheme
All you dress-up
All that you've seen
All you create
All that you wreck
All that you hate...

BONO VOX RISPONDE ALLE CRITICHE: SPARATEMI

Ci sono state molte polemiche nei giorni del lancio della nuova campagna di Red, la fondazione di Bono Vox. Alcuni giornali hanno hanno sollevato l'obiezione che il leader degli U2, e il partner dell'iniziativa NIKE, utilizzano le campagne di benficenza e la fame dell'Africa per motivi di immagine. Nel putiferio polemico è entrata anche la decisione degli U2 di spostare la propria residenza fiscale in Olanda, dove non si pagano tasse sui diritti d'autore. Gli accusatori afeframno che in questo modo i membri della band rock più popolare del mondo sottraggono risorse alla loro terra, l'Irlanda, in un periodo di crisi. Bono Vox ha oggi risposto in questi termini: Sono stato fortunato e sono stato ricompensato oltre misura per quello che faccio. Cerco di dare il mio tempo e le mie risorse, ma sono una rockstar ricca, perciò sparatemi.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO DESIRE

Yeah...
Lover, I'm on the street
Gonna go where the bright lights
And the big city meet
With a red guitar...on fire
Desire

She's a candle burning in my room
Yeah I'm like the needle, needle and spoon
Over the counter with a shotgun
Pretty soon everybody got one
And the fever when I'm beside her
Desire
Desire

And the fever, getting higher
Desire
Desire
Burning...
Burning...

She's the dollars
She's my protection
Yeah she's a promise
In the year of election
Oh sister, I can't let you go
Like a preacher stealing hearts
At a traveling show
For love or money money money
money money money money money
money money money
And the fever, getting higher
Desire, desire, desire, desire

Desire...
Desire...

CONCERTI 2009: GLI U2 HANNO INCASSATO PIU DI TUTTI

Billboard ha appena pubblicato la sua classifica dei 25 tour mondiali più gettonati del 2009. Vincono su tutti gli U2, che con i biglietti del 360° Tour hanno incassato la bellezza di 311 milioni di dollari con 44 date tutte sold out. Al secondo posto Madonna con 222 milioni di dollari, una lunghezza di tutto rispetto che pone gli U2 oltre ogni limite possibile per qualsiasi band.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ONE

Is it getting better?
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame
You say
One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much?
More than a lot.
You gave me nothing,
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One

One

LACE UP, SAVE LIVES

Ecco le immagini video della conferenza di presentazione della nuova iniziativa pro Africa della fonadzione di Bono Vox, Red. Il progetto è stato illustrato alla stampa dal leader degli U2 e dal calciatore del Chelsea Didier Drogba.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long?
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight, we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
...Sunday, Bloody Sunday...
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
...Sunday, Bloody Sunday...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday...Sunday, Bloody Sunday...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday...Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die

...Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday...

NUOVO ALBUM U2, TRE PEZZI GIA' PRONTI

Secondo quanto dichiarato da Bono Vox, tre brani del nuovo album degli U2 sono stati già registrati. La band li avrebbe incisi subito dopo il concerto di Los Angeles. Il live della capitale californiana sarebeb stato uno dei più belli degli U2 nel corso del 2009, e Bono e compagni hanno deciso di utilizzare l'adrenalina che avevano ancora in corpo per metetre su traccia tre pezzi nuovi. in un'intervista al Daily Telegraph, inltre, The Edge ha detto che alcuni brani del nuovo album potrebbero essere testati già nel corso dei concerti che gli U2 terranno in giro per il mondo nel 2010.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO STUCK IN A MOMENT YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF

I'm not afraid
Of anything in this world
There's nothing you can throw at me
That I haven't already heard
I'm just trying to find
A decent melody
A song that I can sing
In my own company

I never thought you were a fool
But darling look at you
You gotta stand up straight
Carry your own weight
These tears are going nowhere baby

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And now you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I will not forsake
The colors that you bring
The nights you filled with fireworks
They left you with nothing

I am still enchanted
By the light you brought to me
I listen through your ears
Through your eyes I can see

And you are such a fool
To worry like you do
I know it's tough
And you can never get enough
Of what you don't really need now
My, oh my

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Oh love, look at you now
You've got yourself stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

I was unconscious, half asleep
The water is warm 'til you discover how deep

I wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall
It's a long way down to nothing at all

You've got to get yourself together
You've got stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

Don't say that later will be better
Now you're stuck in a moment
And you can't get out of it

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if our way should falter
Along the stony pass

And if the night runs over
And if the day won't last
And if your way should falter
Along this stony pass

It's just a moment
This time will pass

E' DEGLI U2 IL MIGLIOR ALBUM DELL'ANNO

E' vero che in tema di musica ogni giornale stila la sua particolare classifica. Ma quando si tratta di Rock la classifica del magazine Rolling Stone conta un bel pò. Secondo questo che è tra i più prestigiosi censori del rock mondiale, No Line On The Horizon, ultimo studio album degli U2, è il miglior disco del 2009.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO VERTIGO

Uno, dos, tres, catorce
(Turn it up loud, captain)

Lights go down
It's dark, the jungle is
Your head can't rule your heart
I'm feeling so much stronger
Than I thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It can't be bought
Your mind can wander

Hello, hello (¡Hola!)
I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
It's everything I wish I didn't know
Except you give me something
I can feel, feel

The night is full of holes
These bullets rip the sky
Of ink with gold
They twinkle as the boys
Play rock and roll
They know that they can't dance
At least they know

I can't stand the beats
I'm asking for the check
The girl with crimson nails
Has Jesus around her neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music

Hello, hello (¡Hola!)
I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
It's everything I wish I didn't know
But you give me something
I can feel, feel

(Checking it)
(Shadows fall)
(She'll make it)

All this, all of this can be yours
All of this, all of this can be yours
All this, all of this can be yours
Just give me what I want
And no one gets hurt

Hello, hello (¡Hola!)
We're at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
Lights go down, and all I know
Is that you give me something
I can feel your love teaching me how
Your love is teaching me how
How to kneel, kneel

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO WITH OR WITHOUT YOU

See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she's got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

Oh...oh...oh...

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you

CONCERTI U2, IL MERCHANDISING UFFICIALE. T-SHIRT VERDE

In vista dei prossimi concerti degli U2 in Italia, vi presento il merchandinsing ufficiale che troverete presso lo Stadio Olimpico di Torino il 6 agosto 2010 e presso lo Stadio Olimpico di Roma l'8 ottobre 2010.

Iniziamo con le t-shirt, articolo più economico del vasto campionario di design made by U2.
Vai con la prima maglia:

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE)

One man come in the name of love
One man come and go
One man come he to justify
One man to overthrow
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!

One man caught on a barbed wire fence
One man he resist
One man washed on an empty beach
One man betrayed with a kiss

In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more? In the name of love!

...nobody like you...there's nobody like you...

Mmm...mmm...mmm...
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride

In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love?
In the name of love!
What more in the name of love...
Mmm...mmm...mmm...

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO BEAUTIFUL DAY

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town
You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can feel it somehow
What you don't have you don't need it now
Don't need it now
Was a beautiful day

U2, LA UNIVERSAL CITA LA TIRRENO POWER PER UN FILMATO CON SOUNDTRACK NON AUTORIZZATA

Alcuni attivisti della provincia di Savona, lottando contro l'ampliamento di una centrale termoelettrica a Vado Ligure, si sono imbattuti in un filmato celebrativo della Tirreno Power la cui colonna sonora era composta da Elevation degli U2. Avvisata la Universal Italia, per far notare come un brano degli U2 fosse fuori luogo per promuovere uno stabilimento a carbone, gli ambnientalisti hanno addirittura ottenuto un'azione legale da parte della casa discografica. Gli U2 infatti non avevano concesso alcun diritto per l'utilizzo dei loro brani.

ANCHE BONO VOX INTERVIENE SUL FALLO DI MANO DI HENRY

Anche il leader degli U2 ha voluto esprimere pubblicamente il suo ramamrico per la qualificazione ai mondiali 2010 rubata dai francesi all'Irlanda con il fallo di mano di Thierry Henry. Nel corso di una serata di beneficenza Bono ha criticato l'ostinazione della FIFA a non introdurre le tecnologie video in campo, strumneti che avrebbero consentito di essere più giusti nel corso dello spareggio Francia - Irlanda. Bono Vox ha anche dichiarato che per questi mondiali tiferà per il Costa D'Avorio. "E' la squadra del mio amico Drogba, ha i colori dell'Irlanda nella propria bandiera, e sarei felice se il mondiale fosse vinto da un team africano. Dopo tutto quello che hanno passato, si meritano una soddisfazione del genere."

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO CEDARS OF LEBANON

Yesterday I spent asleep
Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap
Spent the night tryin to make a deadline
Squeezin complicated lives into a simple headline
I have your face in an old Polaroid
Tidyin the childrens clothes and toys
You smilin back at me I took the photo from the fridge
Can't remember what Emily did
Haven't been with a woman, it feels like, for years
Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears
This shitty world sometimes produces a rose
The scent of it lingers but then it just goes

Return the call to home

The worst of us are a long drawn-out confession
The best of us are geniuses of compression
You say you're not gonna leave the truth alone
I'm here 'cause I don't wanna go home
Child drinkin dirty water from a riverbank
Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank
Waitin on the waiter, he's takin a while to come
Watchin the sun go down on Lebanon

Return the call to home

I got a head like a lit cigarette
Unholy clouds reflect in a minaret
So high above me, higher than everyone
Where are you in the cedars of Lebanon?
Choose your enemies carefully, 'cause they will define you
Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you
They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends
Gonna last with you longer than your friends

BIGLIETTI U2 A TORINO

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BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO BREATHE

16th of June, nine 0-five, door bell rings
Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer
There's a few things I need you to know.
Three coming from a long line of travelling sales people on my mother's side
I wasn't gonna buy just anyone's cockatoo
So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home
Would you?
These days are better than that
These days are better than that
Every day I die again, and again I'm reborn
Every day I have to find the courage
To walk out into the street
With arms out
Got a love you can't defeat
Neither down or out
There's nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now

16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up
And I'm coming down with some new Asian virus
Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man
Doc says you're fine, or dying
Please
Nine 0-nine, St John Divine, on the line, my pulse is fine
But I'm running down the road like loose electricity
While the band in my head plays a striptease
The roar that lies on the other side of silence
The forest fire that is fear so deny it
Walk out into the street
Sing your heart out
The people we meet
Will not be drowned out
There's nothing you have that I need
I can breathe
Breathe now
Yeah, yeah

We are people borne of sound
The songs are in our eyes
Gonna wear them like a crown
Walk out, into the sunburst street
Sing your heart out, sing my heart out
I've found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it's all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO WHITE AS SNOW

Where I grew up there were no hills at all
The land was flat, the highway straight and wide
My brother and I, we'd drive for hours, like we'd years instead of days
Our faces as pale as the dirty snow

Once I knew there was a love divine
Then came a time I thought it knew me not
Who can forgive forgiveness when forgiveness is not?
Only the land as white as snow

And the water it was icy
As it washed over me
And the moon shined above me
Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all
Only [..] under a crescent moon
The road refuses strangers
The land, the seeds we sew
Where might we find a land as white as snow?

As boys we would go hunting in the wood
To sleep, the night shun out the stars
Now the wolves are every passing stranger
Every face we cannot know

For only a heart could be as white as snow
For only a heart could be as white as snow

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO FEZ - BEING BORN

Six o'clock
On the autoroute
Burning rubber, burning chrome
Bay of Cadiz and ferry home
Atlantic sea cut glass
African sun at last
Lights.. flash past
Like memories
A speeding head, a speeding heart
I'm being born, a bleeding start
The engines roar, blood curling wail
Head first then foot
The heart sets sail

BIGLIETTI CONCERTI U2 TORINO E ROMA

E' partita la vendita per i biglietti dei concerti degli U2 a Torino (6 Agosto, Stadio Olimpico) e Roma (Stadio Olimpico, Roma).

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO STAND UP COMEDY

Love love love love love...
Love love love love love...

I got stand up and tale a step
You and I have been asleep for hours
I got to stand up
The wire is stretched in between our two towers
Stand up in this dizzy world
Where a lovesick eye can steal the view
I´m gonna fall down if I can´t stand up
For your love

Love love love love love...
Stand up, this is comedy
The DNA lottery may have left you smart
But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart
I can stand up for hope, faith love
But while I´m getting over certainty
Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady
Out from under your beds
C´mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love...

I gotta stand up to ego bet my ego´s not really the enemy
it's like a small child crossing an eight lane highway
On a voyage of discovery
Stand up to rock stars, Napolean is high heels
Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas
Out form under your beds
C'mon ye people
Stand up for your love
Love love love love love...

God is love
And love is evolution's very best day
Soul rockin' people moving on
Soul rockin' people on and on
C'mon ye people
We're made of stars
C'mon ye people
Stand up then sit down for your love

Love love love love love...
Love love love love love...

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO GET ON YOUR BOOTS

The future needs a big kiss, winds blow with a twist
Never seen a moon like this, can you see it too?
Night is falling everywhere rockets hit the fun-fair
Satan loves a bomb scare but he won't scare you

Hey! Sexy boots
Get on your boots yeah!

Free me from a dark dream, candy floss, ice cream
All the kids are screaming but the ghosts aren't real
Here's what we gotta be: love & community
Laughter is eternity if joy is real

You don't know how... beautiful
You don't know how beautiful... you are
You don't know (you don't know)
You don't get it do you?
You don't know... how beautiful you are

. . . . . .

If some have stuff to blow it up, well, we are into growing up
Women are the future, all the big revelations
I got a submarine, you've got gasoline
I don't wanna talk about wars between nations

Not right now
Sexy boots
No! No, no, no
Get on your boots yeah!
Not right now!
Foxy boots

Aaaaow!

You don't know how... beautiful
You don't know how beautiful... you are
You don't know (you don't know)
You don't get it do you?
You don't know... how beautiful you are

Sexy boots
I don't wanna talk about wars between the nations
Sexy Boots... yeah!

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound now
Oh God I'm going down
I don't wanna drown now
Meet me in the sound

Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound
Let me in the sound sound
Let me in the sound sound
Meet me in the sound

Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!
Get on your boots
Yeah hey hey!

CONCERTI U2, TOUR 2010

Il tour 2010 degli U2 che approderà in Italia ad Agosto (Torino) e ad Ottobre (Roma), partità a breve dagli Stati Uniti D'America. Anche per gli USA la formula sarà quella dello stadio, che d'altra parte è l'unica venue capace di ospitare The Claw, l'enorme palco a 360° già usato nel corso del 2009. Tra u concerti americani, tappe inedite ad Anaheim, Denver, Oakland, Seattle, Edmonton, East Lansing, Miami, Philadelphia e Montreal.

BIGLIETTI U2, STADIO OLIMPICO, ROMA

I biglietti per il concerto degli U2 dell'8 Ottobre 2010 allo Stadio Olimpico di Roma sono suddivisi nel seguente modo:

Prato RED ZONE 1 Intero

Prato RED ZONE 2 Intero

Primo Settore Tribuna Monte Mario Numerata Intero

Primo Settore Tribuna Tevere Numerata Intero

Curva Nord Numerata Intero

Distinti Nord Ovest Numerati Intero

Secondo Settore Tribuna Monte Mario Numerata Intero

Secondo Settore Tribuna Tevere Numerata Intero

Primo Settore Distinti Sud Est Numerati Intero

Primo Settore Distinti Sud Ovest Numerati Intero

Prato Intero

Curva Sud Numerata Intero

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO I'LL GO CRAZY IF I DON'T GO CRAZY TONIGHT

She's a rainbow and she loves the peaceful life
Knows I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

There's a part of me in chaos that's quiet
And there's a part of you that wants me to riot
Everybody needs to cry or needs to spit
Every sweet-tooth needs just a little hit
Every beauty needs to go out with an idiot
How can you stand next to the truth and not see it?
Change of heart comes slow..

It's not a hill it's a mountain
As you start out the climb
Do you believe me or are you doubtin?
We're gonna make it all the way to the light
But I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Divination that will listen to your boys and girls
Is the sweetest melody the one we haven't heard?
Is it true that perfect love drives out all fear?
The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear
But change of heart comes slow...

It's not a hill it's a mountain
As you start out the climb
You see for me I've been shoutin
But we're gonna make it all the way to the light
But I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

Baby, baby, baby, I know I'm not alone
Baby, baby, baby, I know I'm not alone
Ha, ha, ha

It's not a hill it's a mountain
You see for me I've been shouting
Let's shout until the darkness, squeeze out sparks of light
You know we'll go crazy
You know we'll go crazy
You know we'll go crazy, if we don't go crazy tonight

BIGLIETTI U2, STADIO OLIMPICO, TORINO

I biglietti per il concerto degli U2 del 6 Agosto 2010 allo Stadio Olimpico di Torino sono suddivisi nel seguente modo:

Prato RED ZONE 1 Intero

Prato RED ZONE 2 Intero

1 Settore Distinti Est Numerato Intero

1 Settore Tribuna Ovest Numerato Intero

2 Settore Distinti Est Numerato Intero

2 Settore Tribuna Ovest Numerato Intero

Curva Nord Laterale Numerata Intero

Curva Nord Numerata Intero

Prato Non Numerato Intero

3 Settore Distinti Est Non Numerato Intero

Curva Nord Laterale Non Numerato Intero

Curva Nord Non Numerata Intero

Curva Sud Non Numerata Intero

Curva Sud Ospiti Non Numerata Intero

MAGNIFICENT

Magnificent
U2
Mercury
Anno:2009

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO UNKNOWN CALLER

Sunshine, sunshine
Sunshine, sunshine
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

I was lost between the midnight and the dawning
In a place of no consequence or company
3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face
Speed dialing with no signal at all
Go, shout it out, rise up
Oh, oh

Escape yourself, and gravity
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh

Force quit and move to trash
I was right there at the top of the bottom
On the edge of the known universe where I wanted to be
I had driven to the scene of the accident
And I sat there waiting for me
Restart and re-boot yourself
You´re free to go
Oh, oh

Shout for joy if you get the chance
Password, you enter here, right now
Oh, oh

You know your name so punch it in
Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak
Shush now
Oh, oh

They don't move or say a thing