Blew my parents' hifi speakers on the song Gloria from red rocks live, I was ten. 40 years and 35 live gigs later I am waiting for the next tour. They can still burn the place down and their songs have travelled with me throughout my whole life.
Noooooo The Red Hot Chili Peppers are. U2 are a spectacle, but they are a quarter the musicians of the Chili peppers...who write complicated melodies and can jam at will
Totally disagree with your comment. Playing the same gig venue over & over again (and without 1/4 of the band) in Vegas is certainly not their crowning glory. They have been reduced to a side-show attraction.
@@sodiumlights I’ve seen a LOT of great concerts in my life but U2 at the Sphere was the concert of a lifetime and I’m sorry, even though Mullins wasn’t there, his replacement kicked ass. This was a 4 month show in Vegas. Yes, very different but the Sphere takes concert going to 10 new levels. Completely unique. Incredible sound with 167000 speakers and visuals and special effects that have never been seen before.
I'm genuinely happy for U2. The first time I listened to them was on video, I Will Follow. Congratulations to a band with the original lineup that has weathered so many storms after 48 years.
My dad introduced me to U2 when i was 12.. with Simple Minds ❤️ im from Scotland 🏴 love The Minds .. but U2 are my favourite Band & Always will be ❤💚Always go to Both Bands Concerts because i Love them 😍 ❤
BUT Simple Minds is more real i think. They sacked to many members and their management. If they ddid not do that and put Don`t you on a record of their own, i think they would become bigger. They are the better musicians at least. I like U2 also, but they lost me with their Surrender experience.
The only band that doesn’t sack there members if they’re not in good headspace!! And yes , the greatest live performance ever! Every single song they’ve written and released has a special story and sound which as a U2 fan since early 80’s and been to every single concert tours in Melbourne Australia! Always 110% crowd involvement and it’s always memorable after !! I can’t wait till there next album is released and there next Australian tour!! The political side of it well someone has to do it since no one else can be bothered!! Xx
Great comment. Have not been to Australia but saw U2 at the sphere in Vegas 3 months ago. Oh My God. Incredible Hey, was lucky enough to see Midnight Oil about 7 years ago in Denver CO. Incredible! They can rock with the very best. Hard charging. High octane. One of my favorite concerts Also seen Tash Sultana twice. Australia has some incredible talent!
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 That’s just laughably false. The entire sound was developed equally around Larry’s drums and Edge’s guitar. His riffs and fills were groundbreaking. Adam’s contribution, albeit less so, was an immensely vital part especially on the early records when their sound developed. His work on Boy, War, UF, was incredible. People who assert they’re both replaceable expose their ignorance about music. U2 would never have been U2 without Adam and Larry. Period.
@@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 disagree completely. Many drummers could fit U2.. Bass players too. Another bass player filled in for Adam during the Actung Baby era
@@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 when John frusciante left the Chili Peppers...they were fine...it is Flea and Anthony that give the Chili Peppers their overall impact
@@demoremda Pop is an amazing album. When I read that Larry hated the album (because they ran out of time to finish it the way they'd wanted to) I was surprised. It's experimental, beautiful, dissonant and interesting. A cerebral sound. I'm no musician but none of the songs on that album sound unfinished to me.
Problem with releasing an album to 5.5 billion people is that 5.4 billion of those people have no brain in their head. Hope U2 can continue making great music into the future and do what they can to move music on a bit. U2 tours especially have been revolutionary.
I am lucky enough to live 10 minutes down the road and have seen a gazillion concerts there Red rocks is special. The acoustics are like nothing you’ll ever experience anywhere and the amphitheater only holds 9900 people so it’s a very intimate and special experience EVERY singer and band talks about how special it is to perform there and most say it’s the best venue on the planet. I didn’t live in Denver in 1984 but I’ve heard U2s performance from Red Rocks. If you’re a music lover, Red Rocks should be on everyone’s bucket list If I could go back in time to see a concert or 2, U2 at Red Rocks would be one for sure and Slane Castle in 2001 could be their best ever performance. My all time favorite song is Streets have no name and the version at Slane Castle is their best The energy in that crowd was incredible! And my god, Bono ran around the circular stage before starting the song. What an athlete!
MY LETTER TO U2-1987 I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono! I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage! I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations. Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year! All the Best! Gary Lagstrom
There we go gentlemen Very nice too know you all Im innovated because of U No hang over beach drinks with great spirits created from my musical interests sales and marketing experience add science Thank you G @U2 🎉
When I moved back to this country in 1982 from Ireland all my "new" friends asked me what was the most popular band in Ireland at the time. "U2!!" I said. My new friends said "You WHO?"......so I started playing some of my records and next thing I knew The WHOLE Gang were Fans!
Years ago I used Beautiful Day as one of my ringtones. Now I know how the whole album ended up on my phone. Whenever I plug it into the USB in my vehicle, it plays Beautiful Day (and more),which is not a bad thing 😊
Great tribute to my favorite band. I am the same age as U2 and being half British, I connect with rock British bands and singers more than anybody else and I’ve been lucky enough to many of the greats such as The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, bastille, Sting to name a few but up until 2/24/24, my dream was to see U2 live. Well my beautiful wife surprised me with the VIP package at the Venetian and to see U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Mind blowing, incredible, epic and other superlatives do not and cannot describe the experience. It was the best concert I’ve ever been to and the best weekend of my life. Bono connects with the audience like no one I’ve ever seen. Larry Mullen Jr is a machine on the drums. Adam Clayton is the glue that keeps it all together and the Edge is in a class by himself with his iconic guitar sounds and incredible background vocals and although Larry wasn’t there at the sphere, his replacement did not miss a beat. I cannot wait to see them again!
the woman doing the voice over..oh god help us..boy album shows pic from Unforgettable Fire then she calls band aid Scottish guy Midge Ureeeeeeee..it's Midge Ure as in (your)... and 3seconds about Pop album..Angels and Ministers of grace defend us. (hamlet act 1 scene 4) ❤❤😢😢👍👍😂😂
32:40 Hi. New small fan of U2 here. What's the story behind this album cover of 'Songs of Innocence'? I immediately thought, "is Bono gay?" Or was he se*ually exploited by industry men during his early years in showbiz, since you know, he does have Hollywood good looks? This is quite common right? I hope someone knows. I'm still discovering their songs.
Here’s what their Wiki page says… The cover image of drummer Larry Mullen Jr. protectively embracing his then-18-year-old son while both are shirtless. The group thought it worked as a visual metaphor for the album and its theme of "how holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else's". Bono said, "With this record we were looking for the raw, naked and personal, to strip everything back." According to Bono, the tattoo on Mullen's upper arm is based on Native American mythology of the Pawnee tribe and is a symbol of protecting innocence.
if stewart copeland and Sting werent as egotistical as they are/were during their time with the police, would have made a lot more really goos music and lots of great albums as U2 and even made more sophisticated
Should have stopped recording after 2001 , yet toured a little longer, maybe till 2005. Then only made a couple of tracks here and there, rather than diluting a once great discography. This documentary is QVC level shoyte.
This documentary sucked. You should perhaps learn that bands have RHYTHM SECTIONS. Adam and Larry have something called BASS AND DRUMS. Due diligence folks. Due diligence. Thank you.
It gets missed that Apple gave the album away not the band. And not sure what sort of lives people have if they are still upset about it over 9 years later. 😂. I will say, if they only had sent out an accept or decline alert, it would have been a whole different story.
Bono is a person of dubious character and is sneaky and deceptive. This has nothing to do with his music or the band. Just Bono as a person. No time for these sorts of destructive puppets in any industry. Still listen to my U2 CDs - just avoid seeing them live anymore.
@@justincredible. ah, so unmatched in one criteria. Ok then, there about 20 criteria where the Beatles for example are unmatched. So by your logic the Beatles are 20x ‘unmatched’. Cool
Always nice to see a long overview of the band, but as others have commented, so much stuff was left out which really wouldn’t have taken up too much time. Like the fact that one of the reasons people fell in love with U2 at Live Aid was because Bono had rescued a girl from the audince who was getting crushed… and proceeded to dance with her.
Blew my parents' hifi speakers on the song Gloria from red rocks live, I was ten. 40 years and 35 live gigs later I am waiting for the next tour. They can still burn the place down and their songs have travelled with me throughout my whole life.
22 Grammy awards and their feet are still down on earth!!!
More Grammy awards than any other band ever!
U2 is the soundtrack to my life, since the early 80's!
The greatest rock band in the world by far greetings from manly australia
Noooooo The Red Hot Chili Peppers are. U2 are a spectacle, but they are a quarter the musicians of the Chili peppers...who write complicated melodies and can jam at will
Yes U2 are a world renowned great band.
Their music has touched so many fans lives. Thanks U2 2023.
staystrong-staywise
& walk - a step ahead
Great band U2 and his history.
I am a fan from Indyand I have told my family to bury some of my favourite U2 CD' s with me when I pass on...so that I can listen to them forever...!!
The Sphere in Vegas is their crowning glory. As usual they are revolutionary in their sound and performances. THE BEST BAND IN THE WORLD.
Ikr? What will they do next? Play a concert on the moon?
Totally disagree with your comment. Playing the same gig venue over & over again (and without 1/4 of the band) in Vegas is certainly not their crowning glory. They have been reduced to a side-show attraction.
@@sodiumlights I’ve seen a LOT of great concerts in my life but U2 at the Sphere was the concert of a lifetime and I’m sorry, even though Mullins wasn’t there, his replacement kicked ass. This was a 4 month show in Vegas. Yes, very different but the Sphere takes concert going to 10 new levels. Completely unique. Incredible sound with 167000 speakers and visuals and special effects that have never been seen before.
Popmart tour and Zoo TV were better though, maybe not technically with that Sphere but rockier.
I'm genuinely happy for U2. The first time I listened to them was on video, I Will Follow. Congratulations to a band with the original lineup that has weathered so many storms after 48 years.
No mention to “Under a Blood Red Sky” I know it’s not a studio album but I think it’s noteworthy to their growth as live performers.
My dad introduced me to U2 when i was 12.. with Simple Minds ❤️ im from Scotland 🏴 love The Minds .. but U2 are my favourite Band & Always will be ❤💚Always go to Both Bands Concerts because i Love them 😍 ❤
BUT Simple Minds is more real i think. They sacked to many members and their management. If they ddid not do that and put Don`t you on a record of their own, i think they would become bigger. They are the better musicians at least. I like U2 also, but they lost me with their Surrender experience.
Both Bands are in My ❤️
They are awesome
The only band that doesn’t sack there members if they’re not in good headspace!! And yes , the greatest live performance ever! Every single song they’ve written and released has a special story and sound which as a U2 fan since early 80’s and been to every single concert tours in Melbourne Australia! Always 110% crowd involvement and it’s always memorable after !!
I can’t wait till there next album is released and there next Australian tour!!
The political side of it well someone has to do it since no one else can be bothered!!
Xx
Great comment. Have not been to Australia but saw U2 at the sphere in Vegas 3 months ago. Oh My God. Incredible
Hey, was lucky enough to see Midnight Oil about 7 years ago in Denver CO. Incredible! They can rock with the very best. Hard charging. High octane. One of my favorite concerts
Also seen Tash Sultana twice. Australia has some incredible talent!
❤beautiful story of one of rock’s greatest bands ❤
They are the best band ever. Thank you U2.
Happy new year U2
Totally ignored Larry and Adam. U2 are not just Bono and the Edge,.
They aren't the key components of the band. Arguably replaceable..but not Bono or the Edge
@@paulharrisonadventuregearm5457 That’s just laughably false. The entire sound was developed equally around Larry’s drums and Edge’s guitar. His riffs and fills were groundbreaking. Adam’s contribution, albeit less so, was an immensely vital part especially on the early records when their sound developed. His work on Boy, War, UF, was incredible. People who assert they’re both replaceable expose their ignorance about music. U2 would never have been U2 without Adam and Larry. Period.
@@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 disagree completely. Many drummers could fit U2.. Bass players too. Another bass player filled in for Adam during the Actung Baby era
@@alexandriaocasio-smollett5078 when John frusciante left the Chili Peppers...they were fine...it is Flea and Anthony that give the Chili Peppers their overall impact
As always, especially now with the new drummer.
the shortest review of the Pop album in history (two seconds)
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ikr and in my opinion the last of theyre great albums
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Pop is an amazing album. When I read that Larry hated the album (because they ran out of time to finish it the way they'd wanted to) I was surprised. It's experimental, beautiful, dissonant and interesting. A cerebral sound. I'm no musician but none of the songs on that album sound unfinished to me.
Larry and Adam were not ignored.
They prefer to stay in the background and crank out the Big Paychecks.
The first song of theirs I heard was I will follow. I remember driving and it came on the radio I said to myself that's how it'd done!
Bono's had a facelift 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Problem with releasing an album to 5.5 billion people is that 5.4 billion of those people have no brain in their head. Hope U2 can continue making great music into the future and do what they can to move music on a bit. U2 tours especially have been revolutionary.
Where is Red Rocks? Huge part of their early history!!!!
Just outside of Denver , Colorado
I am lucky enough to live 10 minutes down the road and have seen a gazillion concerts there
Red rocks is special. The acoustics are like nothing you’ll ever experience anywhere and the amphitheater only holds 9900 people so it’s a very intimate and special experience
EVERY singer and band talks about how special it is to perform there and most say it’s the best venue on the planet. I didn’t live in Denver in 1984 but I’ve heard U2s performance from Red Rocks. If you’re a music lover, Red Rocks should be on everyone’s bucket list
If I could go back in time to see a concert or 2, U2 at Red Rocks would be one for sure and Slane Castle in 2001 could be their best ever performance. My all time favorite song is Streets have no name and the version at Slane Castle is their best
The energy in that crowd was incredible! And my god, Bono ran around the circular stage before starting the song. What an athlete!
MY LETTER TO U2-1987
I saw you guys on the Joshua Tree tour in 1987 at MTSU-Middle Tennessee State University Saturday November 28th 1987. The Bodeans opened up for you. I remember at the time Larry had a crush on Wynonna Judd and she came out and sang a duo with Bono!
I didn't have tickets to the show. A friend of mine drove us 3 hours from East Tennessee to see the show. We bought tickets at the box office for $18.50. We ended up 8th row center stage!
I remember back then the band held back tickets for fans who were willing to make the drive and couldn't get tickets via phone or record store locations.
Thanks again to Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr for making a special album and tour! I was 18 and had just graduated High School that year!
All the Best!
Gary Lagstrom
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like cure
without the c “k” sound.
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There we go gentlemen
Very nice too know you all
Im innovated because of U
No hang over beach drinks with great spirits created from my musical interests sales and marketing experience add science
Thank you
G
@U2 🎉
When I moved back to this country in 1982 from Ireland all my "new" friends asked me what was the most popular band in Ireland at the time. "U2!!" I said. My new friends said "You WHO?"......so I started playing some of my records and next thing I knew The WHOLE Gang were Fans!
Documentaire très bien réalisé félicitations aux réalisateurs
GRANDE OTTIMO
Song Sunday Bloody Sunday from album War was not even mentioned!!! That song made first major impact on their career.
Years ago I used Beautiful Day as one of my ringtones. Now I know how the whole album ended up on my phone. Whenever I plug it into the USB in my vehicle, it plays Beautiful Day (and more),which is not a bad thing 😊
NEW YEARS DAY 2024
Great tribute to my favorite band.
I am the same age as U2 and being half British, I connect with rock British bands and singers more than anybody else and I’ve been lucky enough to many of the greats such as The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, bastille, Sting to name a few but up until 2/24/24, my dream was to see U2 live.
Well my beautiful wife surprised me with the VIP package at the Venetian and to see U2 at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Mind blowing, incredible, epic and other superlatives do not and cannot describe the experience. It was the best concert I’ve ever been to and the best weekend of my life.
Bono connects with the audience like no one I’ve ever seen.
Larry Mullen Jr is a machine on the drums. Adam Clayton is the glue that keeps it all together and the Edge is in a class by himself with his iconic guitar sounds and incredible background vocals and although Larry wasn’t there at the sphere, his replacement did not miss a beat.
I cannot wait to see them again!
Your comment makes you sound as though you don’t understand the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
we’re well overdue
another visit lads.!
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Correct me if I'm wrong... but were they not called U23 for a short while?
'U23' was an alternative name for the ep 'Three' released in 1979.
Ok, let me correct you. no, the weren't. ;-)
the woman doing the voice over..oh god help us..boy album shows pic from Unforgettable Fire then she calls band aid Scottish guy Midge Ureeeeeeee..it's Midge Ure as in (your)... and 3seconds about Pop album..Angels and Ministers of grace defend us. (hamlet act 1 scene 4) ❤❤😢😢👍👍😂😂
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Live Aid was at Wembley Stadium not Wembley Arena
Боно привет из России, ты красивый и умный.😎😎😎
epic rise and equally epic fall
Showed footage of Band Aid 20 from 2004, not the original lineup. These were a bunch of nobodies 🫣
32:40 Hi. New small fan of U2 here. What's the story behind this album cover of 'Songs of Innocence'? I immediately thought, "is Bono gay?" Or was he se*ually exploited by industry men during his early years in showbiz, since you know, he does have Hollywood good looks? This is quite common right? I hope someone knows. I'm still discovering their songs.
Here’s what their Wiki page says…
The cover image of drummer Larry Mullen Jr. protectively embracing his then-18-year-old son while both are shirtless. The group thought it worked as a visual metaphor for the album and its theme of "how holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else's". Bono said, "With this record we were looking for the raw, naked and personal, to strip everything back." According to Bono, the tattoo on Mullen's upper arm is based on Native American mythology of the Pawnee tribe and is a symbol of protecting innocence.
This is inaccurate. Images of the band are many times from other periods and it totally ignored Pop and particullary PopMart Tour
Wow, Dublins a small town is it? 😂
Dublin is not a small town ;)
if stewart copeland and Sting werent as egotistical as they are/were during their time with the police, would have made a lot more really goos music and lots of great albums as U2 and even made more sophisticated
How could they ignore Under a Blood Red Sky?
It was a number 1 album in many countries and the launching pad for what came next.
Terrible documentary.
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imposters version..
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do they know… (it’s xmas)
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Pride, also written about Jesus. Funny how he gets left out.
Well, at least JFK was real!
The meteorite is falling,not rising.
insufferable inflections of the "narrator" render this unwatchable.
Sick of em
Ahw...
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Should have stopped recording after 2001 , yet toured a little longer, maybe till 2005.
Then only made a couple of tracks here and there, rather than diluting a once great discography.
This documentary is QVC level shoyte.
Good video larry and adam are worthless
One of the better bot voices I've heard thus far. The rest of it is pretty much shat.
This is not bot
This documentary sucked. You should perhaps learn that bands have RHYTHM SECTIONS. Adam and Larry have something called BASS AND DRUMS. Due diligence folks. Due diligence. Thank you.
They did mention that at the beginning. (should have shown more of them though)
Clickbait by someone who should read more about music history. Go to Wikipedia ny friend. And read whathappened in 1964 arounfd the world.
U2 - the Band.
Their mission? Piss off every Apple user on the planet.
And they succeeded in doing exactly that!!😂
It gave them a whole new generation of fans; and it was Apple who did it!
It gets missed that Apple gave the album away not the band. And not sure what sort of lives people have if they are still upset about it over 9 years later. 😂. I will say, if they only had sent out an accept or decline alert, it would have been a whole different story.
@@nianfiedler5291 spot on. It's Apple's system and they made it happen, yet U2 continue to get the blame.
I wasn't.. nobody should ever be pissed at getting free music...that's pathetic
Bono is a person of dubious character and is sneaky and deceptive.
This has nothing to do with his music or the band.
Just Bono as a person.
No time for these sorts of destructive puppets in any industry.
Still listen to my U2 CDs - just avoid seeing them live anymore.
Bono went to Epstein Island! That's all I need to know!!
No he didn't
you clearly don't need evidence lmao, too big to fail!
Unmatched? *cough*
Yep, unmatched! NO other band has more Grammy awards!
@@justincredible. ah, so unmatched in one criteria. Ok then, there about 20 criteria where the Beatles for example are unmatched. So by your logic the Beatles are 20x ‘unmatched’. Cool
Truly one of the worlds worst bands. SOY based political dribble. 🤢🤢
shut up
Ahw... poow wittle thing
Happy New Year
2024, Wherever You Are U2 Band.
With Respect From Liverpool 🇬🇧
IS U2 just two members or four lol
Always nice to see a long overview of the band, but as others have commented, so much stuff was left out which really wouldn’t have taken up too much time. Like the fact that one of the reasons people fell in love with U2 at Live Aid was because Bono had rescued a girl from the audince who was getting crushed… and proceeded to dance with her.