BIGLIETTI CONCERTI U2 IN ITALIA

Un aggiornamento sulla vendita dei biglietti per i concerti degli U2 in Italia:

6 Agosto, Stadio Olimpico, Torino: a partire da 59,00 euro

8 Ottobre, Stadio Olimpico, Roma: a partire da 60,00 euro

CONCERTI U2

CONCERTI U2, VIDEO

Ecco un altro filmato amatoriale dell'ultimo concerto degli U2 in Italia.

VIDEO CONCERTI U2, ANCORA DA DUBLINO

Ancora U2 in concerto, ancora da Dublino. Ancora con Sunday Bloody Sunday, che in quella città ha un suono particolare.

VIDEO CONCERTI U2

Continua la nostra rassegna di video dai concerti più recenti degli U2. Oggi tocca a Bad, eseguita dal vivo a Dublino il 24 luglio del 2009.

EMERGENZA HAITI, UNA FOTO DI BONO IN CONCERTO

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

PALCO CONCERTI U2

Ecco un'altra chicca dal sito ufficiale degli U2. una fantastica immagine del The Claw, il palco a 360° studiato appositamente per gli stadi in modo da dare a tutti la sensazione di vicinanza alla band.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO MISS SARAJEVO

Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day


Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for cutting hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right dress to wear


Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown


Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell


Is there a time for first communion
A time for East 17
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
Is there time to be a beauty queen


Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown


Dici che il fiume
Trova la via al mare
E come il fiume
Giungerai a me
Oltre i confini
E le terre assetate
Dici che come fiume
Come fiume...
L'amore giunger
L'amore...
E non so più pregare
E nell'amore non so più sperare
E quell'amore non so più aspettare

Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze

BONO E THE EDGE PER HAITI, IL VIDEO

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...life


One

BONO VOX E THE EDGE PER HAITI

Bono Vox e the Edge hanno aderito alla campagna mondiale per la raccolta di fondi da destinare alle popolazioni di Haiti. L'iniziativa, promossa da George Clooney, prevede una serie di eventi a cui parteciperanno le più grandi star del pianeta. Una gara di solidarietà a cui i due U2 non hanno voluto rinunciare, e a cui molti fans della band hanno già aderito donando soldi per i soccorsi post terremoto.

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

CONCERTO U2 A ZURIGO

Gli U2 hanno agigunto un nuovo concerto in Europa alla leg 2010 del loro 360° Tour. La data è ghiotta anche per i fans italiani del nord Italia. Gli U2 suoneranno infatti al Letzigrund Stadium di Zurigo l'11 settemnre 2010. I biglietti per la data elvetica andranno in vendita a partire dal 28 gennaio 2010.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO THE FIRST TIME

I have a lover
A lover like no other
She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul
And she teach me how to sing


Shows me colours when there's none to see
Gives me hope when I can't believe
That for the first time
I feel love


I have a brother
When I'm a brother in need
I spend my whole time running
He spends his running after me


When I feel myself going down
I just call and he comes around
But for the first time
I feel love


My father is a rich man
He wears a rich man's cloak
Gave me the keys to his kingdom coming
Gave me a cup of gold


He said I have many mansions
And there are many rooms to see
But I left by the back door
And I threw away the key
And I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key
Yeah, I threw away the key


For the first time
For the first time
For the first time


I feel love

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO NUMB (NEW MIX)

Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine

Don't grab
Don't clutch
Don't hope for too much
Don't breathe
Don't achieve
Or grieve without leave

Don't check
Just balance on the fence
Don't answer
Don't ask
Don't try and make sense

Don't whisper
Don't talk
Don't run if you can walk
Don't cheat, compete
Don't miss the one beat

Don't travel by train
Don't eat
Don't spill
Don't piss in the drain
Don't make a will

Don't fill out any forms
Don't compensate
Don't cower
Don't crawl
Don't come around late
Don't hover at the gate

Don't take it on board
Don't fall on your sword
Just play another chord
If you feel you're getting bored


enough

Don't change your brand
Don't listen to the band
Don't gape
get
Don't ape
Don't change your shape
Have another grape

enough


Don't plead
Don't bridle
Don't shackle
Don't grind
Don't curve
Don't swerve
Lie, die, serve
Don't theorize, realise, polarise
Chance, dance,dismiss, apologise

get


enough
Don't spy
Don't lie
Don't try
Imply
Detain
Explain
Start again

Don't triumph
Don't coax
Don't cling
Don't hoax
Don't freak
Peak
Don't leak
Don't speak

Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest

Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest

Don't struggle
Don't jerk
Don't collar
Don't work
Don't wish
Don't fish
Don't teach
Don't reach

Don't borrow
enough
Don't break
Don't fence
Don't steal
Don't pass
Don't press
Don't try
Don't feel

Don't touch
Don't dive
Don't suffer
Don't rhyme
Don't fantasize
Don't rise
Don't lie
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest

Don't project
Don't connect
Protect
Don't expect
Suggest

I feel numb

IT MIGHT GET LOUD, E' GIA' CULT

Il documentario musicale sulla chitarra It Might Get Loud, che mette assieme Jimmy Page The Edge e Jack White, è già diventgato pellicola di culto. Ricercatissimo sia nelle proiezioni di sala sia nelle versioni home cinema.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME

You don't know how you took it
You just know what you got
Oh Lordy you've been stealing
From the thieves and you got caught
In the headlights
Of a stretch car
You're a star


Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art
You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star


Oh no, don't be shy
You don't have to go blind
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me


You don't know how you got here
You just know you want out
Believing in yourself
Almost as much as you doubt
You're a big smash
You wear it like a rash
Star


Oh no, don't be shy
It takes a crowd to cry
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me


They want you to be Jesus
They'll go down on one knee
But they'll want their money back
If you're alive at thirty-three
And you're turning tricks
With your crucifix
You're a star


(Oh child)


Of course you're not shy
You don't have to deny love
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me

GLI U2 RISALGONO ANCORA LA CLASSIFICA

Ulteriore balzo in avanti per No Line On The Horizon nella classifica degli album più venduti in Italia. L'ultimo lavoro in studio degli U2 passa questa settimana dalla posizione numero 99 alla numero 82. E' quanto emerge dai dati raccolti da Nielsen per la federazione Industria Musicale Italiana presso i negozi di dischi e la grande distribuzione.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO DISCOTHÈQUE (NEW MIX)

You can reach
But you can't grab it
You can hold it, control it
You can't bag it


You can push
But you can't direct it
Circulate, regulate, oh no
You cannot connect it


You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovey dovey stuff


You get confused
But you know it
Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love
You don't always show it


Let's go
Discothèque


Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


You want to be the one
But you know you're someone else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head


It's not a trick
'Cause you can't learn it
It's the way you don't pay, that's okay
'Cause you can't earn it


You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
But you just can't get enough
Of that lovey dovey stuff


Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


Go go
Go go
Discothèque


Looking for the one
But you know you're somewhere else instead
You want to be the song
Be the song that you hear in your head


(Heaven in your heart)
(Is your love strung out below)
(The sun, the moon, and the stars)


But you take what you can get
'Cause it's all that you can find
But you know there's something more
But tonight, tonight, tonight
You don't mind...


Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque
Discothèque

GLI U2 OMAGGIANO I SIMPSONS

Per i 20 anni dei Simpsons, gli U2 hanno riproposto sul loro sito web la 200esima puntata del cartone animato, in cui gli U2 recitano se stessi durante il Popmart Tour.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD

Haven't seen you in quite a while
I was down the hold just passing time
Last time we met was a low-lit room
We were as close together as a bride and groom
We ate the food, we drank the wine
Everybody having a good time
Except you
You were talking about the end of the world


I took the money
I spiked your drink
You miss too much these days if you stop to think
You lead me on with those innocent eyes
You know I love the element of surprise
In the garden I was playing the tart
I kissed your lips and broke your heart
You...you were acting like it was
The end of the world


(Love...love...)


In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
Waves of regret and waves of joy
I reached out for the one I tried to destroy
You...you said you'd wait
'til the end of the world

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO GONE (NEW MIX)

You get to feel so guilty
You got so much for so little
Then you find that feeling
Just won't go away


You were holding on to every little thing so tightly
'Til there's nothing left for you anyway


Goodbye...
You can keep this suit of lights
I'll be up with the sun
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down


You wanted to get somewhere so badly
You kinda lose yourself along the way
You change your name, but that's okay, it's necessary
What you leave behind you don't miss anyway


Goodbye...
You can keep this suit of lights
I'll be up with the sun
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down


And I'm already gone
Felt that way all along
Closer to you every day
Didn't want it that much anyway


You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy
Then you learn to like the way it feels
You hurt yourself you hurt your lover
Then you discover
What you thought was freedom just was greed


Goodbye...
No emotional...good night
I'll be up with the sun
Are you still holding on
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down
I'm not coming down


Gone...sun...time...sun...
Gone...sun....gone...sun...
Sun...

U2, UNA FOTO DALLO STUDIO

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO STAY (FARAWAY, SO CLOSE!)

Green light, Seven Eleven
You stop in for a pack of cigarettes
You don't smoke, don't even want to
Hey now, check your change
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turning but you're upside down
You say when he hits you, you don't mind
Because when he hurts you, you feel alive
Hey babe, is that what it is


Red lights, gray morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around
You used to stay in to watch the adverts
You could lip synch to the talk shows


And if you look, you look through me
And when you talk, you talk at me
And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing


If I could stay...
Then the night would give you up
Stay...and the day would keep its trust
Stay...and the night would be enough


Faraway, so close
Up with the static and the radio
With satellite television
You can go anywhere
Miami, New Orleans
London, Belfast and Berlin


And if you listen I can't call
And if you jump, you just might fall
And if you shout, I'll only hear you


If I could stay...
Then the night would give you up
Stay...then the day would keep its trust
Stay...with the demons you drowned
Stay...with the spirit I found
Stay...and the night would be enough


Three o'clock in the morning
It's quiet and there's no one around
Just the bang and the clatter
As an angel runs to ground


Just the bang
And the clatter
As an angel
Hits the ground

LA BBC FA AUTOCRITICA SUGLI U2

"Abbiamo esagerato nella promozione di no Line On The Horizon"". E' questo il senso dell'autocritica a cui l'emittente di stato inglese è stata costretta dopo le interrogazioni parlamentari di un deputato conservatore. La BBC aveva lanciato, via tv e via radio, il nuovo disco degli U2 a tutto spiano. Guadagnandoci però un concerto sul tetto del proprio grattacielo. Non a sufficienza però. "Dobbiamo stare attenti a non favorire attività commerciali esterne", si legge oggi in una nota.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ELECTRICAL STORM (WILLIAM ORBIT MIX)

The sea it swells like a sore head
And the night, it is aching
Two lovers lie with no sheets on their bed
And the day it is breaking


On rainy days we'd go swimming out
On rainy days, swimming in the sound
On rainy days we'd go swimming out


You're in my mind
All of the time
I know that's not enough
If the sky can crack
There must be some way back
For love and only love


Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Baby don't cry


Car alarm
Won't let you back to sleep
You're kept awake
Dreaming someone else's dream
Coffee is cold
But it'll get you through
Compromise
That's nothing new to you


Let's see colors that have never been seen
Let's go to places no one else has been


In my mind
All of the time
I know that's not enough
Well if the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love


Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Baby don't cry


It's hot as hell
Honey, in this room
Sure hope the weather will break soon
The air is heavy, heavy as a truck
Need the rain will wash away our bad luck


Well if the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love


Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Electrical storm


Baby don't cry
Baby don't cry
Oh baby don't cry
Oh baby don't cry

VIDEO CONCERTI U2

No Line on the Horizon, ancora da Milano (concerto del 7 luglio).

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO MYSTERIOUS WAYS

Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love


She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways


Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel


(On your knees boy)


She's the wave
She turns the tide
And no question she knows why


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
Lift my days, light up my nights


One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright


We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
She moves with it
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights

UN NUOVO ROMANZO ROCK DALL'AUTORE DI "U2 AT THE END OF THE WORLD"

E' stato appena pubblicato "Evening's Empire", il nuovo romanzo di Bill Flanagan, noto ai fans degli U2 per essere l'autore di "U2 At the End of the World", il libro sulla band più importante del rock contemporaneo, scritto dopo che Flanagan aveva seguito Bono Vox e compagni durante lo Zoo Tv Tour.Evening's Empire narar la storia di un manager musicale che con la sua band attraversa tre decenni (anni 60, 70 e 80).

Bono Vox ha così descritto il romanzo: "Evening's Empire è una storia alternatica sulla generazione degli anni '60, che risulta persino più vera di ciò che realmente accadde. E' il testamento divertente e triste di quei ragazzi persi che non sarebbero più cresciuti".

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING

Give me one more chance
And you'll be satisfied
Give me two more chances
You won't be denied


Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance
Let me be your lover tonight


(Check it out)


You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Child...


Give me one last chance
And I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance
To ride on the waves that you bring


You're honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze
Give me one last dance
We'll slide down the surface of things


You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Child...


We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight


Oh now...here she comes


Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
You take me higher


You're the real thing
Yeah the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Even better than the real thing

CONCERTI U2, ANCORA DA BARCELLONA

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO ELECTRICAL STORM

The sea it swells like a sore head
And the night, it is aching
Two lovers lie with no sheets on their bed
And the day it is breaking


On rainy days we'd go swimming out
On rainy days, swimming in the sound
On rainy days we'd go swimming out


You're in my mind
All of the time
I know that's not enough
If the sky can crack
There must be some way back
For love and only love


Car alarm
Won't let you back to sleep
You're kept awake
Dreaming someone else's dream
Coffee is cold
But it'll get you through
Compromise
That's nothing new to you


Let's see colors that have never been seen
Let's go to places no one else has been


In my mind
All of the time
I know that's not enough
If the sky can crack
There must be some way back
To love and only love


Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Baby don't cry


It's hot as hell
Honey, in this room
Sure hope the weather will break soon
The air is heavy, heavy as a truck
Hope the rain will wash away our bad luck


The sky can crack
There must be some way back
For love and only love


Electrical storm
Electrical storm
Electrical storm


Baby don't cry
Baby don't cry
Oh baby don't cry
Oh baby don't cry

CONCERTI U2, UN VIDEO

Ecco uno spezzone video del concerto degli u2 a Barcellona del 2 luglio 2009. Si tratta della prima volta che gli u2 eseguono dal vivo Electrical Storm.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO DISCOTHÈQUE (HEXIDECIMAL MIX)

You can reach
But you can't grab it
You can hold it, control it
No, you can't bag it


You can push
(You can push)
But you can't direct it
(But you can't direct it)
Circulate, regulate, oh no
You can't connect it
(You cannot connect it)


You know you're chewing bubblegum
You know what that is
But you still want some
You just can't get enough
Of that lovey dovey stuff


Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


Let's go
Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


You get confused
But you love it
Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love
You don't always show it


You want to be the one
But you know you're someone else instead
You want to be the song
Be the songs you're hearing, yeah


Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


Go go
Go go
Discothèque
(Discothèque)


Love...


Love...(Discothèque)


Love...(Discothèque)


(You want heaven in your heart)
(Heaven in your heart)


But you take what you can get
'Cause it's all that you can find
But you know there's something more
Tonight, tonight, tonight


Ha...ha...
Ha...ha...
Ha...ha...
Ha...


(Boom) (Boom)
[Repeat 8 times]


Let's go
Let's go
Discothèque


Go go
Go go
Discothèque


Love...


Love...


Love...(Discothèque)


Love...(Discothèque)


Love...

CONCERTI U2, UNA FOTO DAL SITO UFFICIALE

Ecco un'altra foto che oggi fa da home page del sito ufficiale degli U2. Si riprende il microfono di Bono, accanto al quale un leggio regge i testi di un pezzo.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO LEMON (JEEP MIX)

Lemon
See through in the sunlight
She wore lemon
But never in the daylight
She's gonna make you cry
She's gonna make you whisper and moan
And when you're dry
She draws her water from the stone


And I feel
Like I'm slowly, slowly,
Slowly slipping under
And I feel
Like I'm holding onto nothing


She wore lemon
To color in the cold grey night
She had heaven
And she held on so tight


A man makes a picture
A moving picture
Through the light projected
He can see himself up close
A man captures color
A man likes to stare
He turns his money into light
To look for her


And I feel
Like I'm drifting, drifting,
Drifting from the shore
And I feel
Like I'm swimming out to her


Midnight is where the day begins


A man builds a city
With banks and cathedrals
A man melts the sand so he can

See the world outside

A man makes a car
And builds a road to run them on
A man dreams of leaving

You're gonna meet her there
She's your destination
You gotta get to her
She's imagination

But he always stays behind

And these are the days
When our work has come asunder
And these are the days
When we look to each other


Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins


Midnight is where the day begins
Midnight is where the day begins

LA FEDE DI BONO SULL'OSSERVATORE ROMANO

Si discute nel web di un articolo apparso sull'Osservatore Romano del 4-5 gennaio a firma Gaetano Vallini. Il pezzo, dal titolo "Re Davide? Una pop star" inizia con le parole di Bono Vox:

"A dodici anni adoravo Davide: per me era come una pop star, le parole dei salmi erano poesia e lui era un divo. C'è da dire che, prima di diventare profeta e re di Israele, Davide aveva dovuto subirne parecchie: era andato in esilio e poi finì in una caverna dove fece i conti con se stesso e con Dio. Ed è proprio lì che la soap opera si fa interessante: Davide compone il suo primo blues". Detta così - nota l'opinionista del giornale del vaticano- ha tutta l'aria di un'affermazione irriverente. E invece questa dichiarazione fatta da Bono, il leader degli U2, una delle rock band più importanti degli ultimi trent'anni, può essere letta come una originalissima dichiarazione di fede.

Da qui Vallini parte alla scoperta della religiosità di Bono Vox attraverso una lettura dei brani degli U2, disseminati di citazioni tratte dal Vangelo e dalla Bibbia.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO IF GOD WILL SEND HIS ANGELS (BIG YAM MIX)

Nobody else here baby
Nobody else here to blame
No one to point the finger
It's just you and me and the rain


Nobody made you do it
No one put words in my mouth
No one here taking orders
When love took a train heading south


It's the blind leading the blonde
It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs


Hey if God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
And if God will send his angels
Will everything be alright


God has got his phone off the hook, baby
Would he even pick up if he could
It's been a while since we saw that child
Hanging 'round this neighborhood
You see his mother dealing in a doorway
See Father Christmas with a begging bowl
Jesus sister's eyes are a blister
The High Street never looked so low


It's the blind leading the blonde
It's the cops collecting for the cons


If God will send his angels
And if God will send a sign
Well if God will send his angels
Will that make it alright
Where do we go
Where do we go


Jesus never let me down
You know Jesus used to show me the score
Then they put Jesus in show business
Now it's hard to get in the door
(Angel)


It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs
But I guess it's something to go on
So where is the hope and where is the faith
And the love...what's that you say to me
Does love...light up your Christmas tree
The next minute you're blowing a fuse
And the cartoon network turns into the news


If God will send his angels
I sure could use them here right now
Well if God would send his angels


And I don't have to know how
(Where do we go)
And I don't need to know why
And I don't want to promise
(Where do we go)
'Cause I don't want to lie
I just want to need you
(Where do we go)
Tonight


Love...
So light, so night, by your door
Do take my hand by your door
So light, so night, by your door

CONCERTI U2, UNA FOTO DAL SITO UFFICIALE

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO MYSTERIOUS WAYS (SOLAR PLEXUS CLUB MIX)

Johnny take a walk with your sister the moon
Let her pale light in to fill up your room
You've been living underground
Eating from a can
You've been running away
From what you don't understand...
Love


She's slippy
You're sliding down
She'll be there when you hit the ground


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways


Johnny take a dive with your sister in the rain
Let her talk about the things you can't explain
To touch is to heal
To hurt is to steal
If you want to kiss the sky
Better learn how to kneel


(On your knees boy)


She loves you
You don't know why
She sees the man inside the child


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
Lift my days, light up my nights


One day you will look...back
And you'll see...where
You were held...how
By this love...while
You could stand...there
You could move on this moment
Follow this feeling


It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright
She moves in mysterious ways
It's alright, it's alright, it's alright


We move through miracle days
Spirit moves in mysterious ways
It'll move you
She moves with it
Lift my days, light up my nights

GLI U2 RISALGONO LA CLASSIFICA

Dopo aver dominato le classifiche di vendita dischi al momento della sua uscita e per mesi interi, No Line On The Horizon accenna a risalire. Secondo i dati FIMI l'ultimo studio labum degli U2 passa questa settimana dalla posizione 74 alla 65, scavalcando ben 9 livelli.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO NUMB (GIMMIE SOME MORE DIGNITY MIX)

Rob...rob...rob, wake up. Rob...well listen, listen, look, we've been up at the new U2 readings, right. It's called Numb or something. I don't know what it's like, but it might be quite good. And even if it isn't, if it's not good, we'll just sell the multi-tracks down captain lockings(???), you know, make a bit of money that way. But anyway, um, when you wake up, give me a ring and I'm going to call the studio and book some time. Oh yeah, and I want to use a full string section, okay.

Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimme some more
Gimme some more of that stuff, love
Gimme some more
Too much is not enough


Gimmie gimmie some more
Gimmie gimmie some more
[repeat until end]


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine


Don't move
Don't talk out of time
Don't think
Don't worry
Everything's just fine
Just fine

THE EDGE: DETESTO LE JAM SESSION

In un'intervista a Neil McCormick del Daily Telegraph The Edge si è detto assolutamente contrario a fare jam sessins con altri chitarristi. "Ho provato e mai più. Fare jam sessions è la cosa più scocciante e terribile per me. Non mi ci diverto proprio. Prima di tutto, non ha niente a che fare con il modo in cui lavoro come musicista. Io non mi siedo e inizio a suonare a vavera per vedere che viene fuori. L'idea di fare jamming , senza fine senza direzione senza un progetto, è una cosa che trovo noiosissima."

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING (THE PERFECTO MIX)

Take me higher


Take me higher


Take me higher


Give me one more chance
And you'll be satisfied
Give me two more chances
You won't be denied


Well my heart is where it's always been
My head is somewhere in between
Give me one more chance
Let me be your lover tonight


You're the real thing
You're the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Child...


Give me one last chance
And I'm gonna make you sing
Give me half a chance
To ride on the waves that you bring


You're honey child to a swarm of bees
Gonna blow right through you like a breeze
Give me one last dance
We'll slide down the surface of things


You're the real thing
You're the real thing
You're the real thing
Even better than the real thing
Child...


Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher


We're free to fly the crimson sky
The sun won't melt our wings tonight


Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher


Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
Take me higher
You take me higher
Take me higher

U2, RECORD DI BIGLIETTI VENDUTI ANCHE NEGLI USA

Dopo l'Europa anche gli USA. Secondo la rivista Pollstar, anche nel nuovo continente il tour più venduto del 2009 è stato quello degli U2. Bono Vox e compagni hanno venduto biglietti per i loro concerti negli States per un valore di 123 milioni di dollari, mettendosi alle spalle big del calibro di Bruce Springsteen, che con la sua E Street Band ha raccolto 94,5 milioni di dollari.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO SALOME (ZOOROMANCER REMIX)

Baby please
Baby please don't go
I got lies to feed
They want skin and seed
Now don't make me crawl


Baby please
Baby don't bite your lip
Give you half what I got
If you untie the knot
It's a promise


Salome...salome
Salome...salome
Yeah yeah yeah


Baby please
Baby what's that tune
Well I heard it before
When I crawled from your door
And my blood turned blue


Baby please
Baby please slow down
Baby I feel sick
Don't make me stick to my promise


Salome...salome
Salome...salome
Salome...salome


Baby please
Baby don't say no
Won't you dance for me
'neath that cherry tree
Won't you swing down low


Please
Baby please say yes
Baby don't go away
You're spilling me
And your precious love


Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Shake it shake it shake it salome
Salome...


(I got to, got to get you) (I got to get you) (I got to, got to get you) ...

Alright now


Under the spell of your love
Under the spell of your love

INTERVISTA A THE EDGE SUL TIMES

E' uscita oggi un'intervista al chitarrista degli U2 sul Times (trovate il pezzo anche online). Nell'inrtervista si parla soprattutto di "It Might Get Loud", il documentario in uscita questa settimana in Europa in cui tre grandi chitarristi si confrontano: The Edge, Jimmy Page e Jack White.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN (THE GUN MIX)

Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun


She's not a girl who misses much
She's not a girl who misses much


Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun


Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun


She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane
The man in the crowd
With the multicoloured mirrors on his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes wide open
And the hands busy working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust


Hey, I need a fix 'cause I'm going down


Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun


Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun


I need a fix cause I'm going down
I need a fix cause I'm going down
I need a fix cause I'm going down
To the bits that I left uptown


I need a fix cause I'm going down, uptown
Need a fix cause I'm going down, uptown


Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a, a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun
Happiness is a warm gun
[Repeat until end]

CONCERTI U2, IL PALCO

Ecco una bellissima foto del The Claw, l'impressionante palco a 360 gradi usato dagli U2 per i loro tour del 2009 e del 2010. La foto è stata pubblicata oggi sul sito ufficiale della band.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO YOUR BLUE ROOM

It's time to go again
To your blue room
Got some questions to ask of you
In your blue room


The air is clean
Your skin is clear
I've had enough fun hanging 'round here
It's a different kind of conversation
Your blue room


Saw me coming
In outside
Saw me coming
Somewhere I can hide


And time is a string of pearls...your blue room
(I'm a swinger)
See the future just hanging there...your blue room
A new frame, a new perspective
Looking down on my objectives
Your instructions whatever their directions
Your blue room


Saw me coming
East by the moon
Saw me coming
Can you feel


(It's allright)


Your blue room


One day I'll be back...your blue room
Yeah, I hope I remember where it's at...your blue room


We see me slide
Won't you give me a home
So much for change


Zooming in
Zooming out
Nothing I can't do without
A lens to see it all up close
Magnifying what no one knows
Never in company
Never alone
No car alarm
No cellular phone

BONO VOX ARTISTA DI STRADA A NATALE

Bono Vox è sceso per strada a Dublino la sera di Natale e, in mezzo a un centinaio di giovani increduli, si è unito agli artisti di strada che stavano suonando in Grafton Street. Bono si è fermato per tre pezzi: “Knockin´ On Heaven´s Door” di Bob Dylan, ‘Stand By Me’ di Ben E.King e “Heyday” di Mic Christopher. Su Youtube ho trovato il video del primo brano.

BUON 2010

Ciao a tutti, niente notizie oggi. Entro solo per augurarvi un felicissimo 2010. Spero per voi che il nuovo anno sia l'anno dellle soddisfazioni e della serenità. Ma soprattutto spero che riusciate ad essere lì, a Torino o a Roma non importa, a godervi il più grande evento musicale di questo nuovo anno: il concerto degli U2.

BIGLIETTI U2, TESTO YAHWEH

Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes
And make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt
And make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul
And make it sing

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands
Don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth
Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahewh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn

Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean

Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?

Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city
If it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break