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Author: Diana Scrimgeour
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780752873930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderpinning the popularity of U2 is their passion for touring. For the first time the band has agreed to allow a book on this vital part of their creative energy to be published. Photographs are hand-picked from their archive.
Author: Pimm Jal de la Parra
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780711991989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince their formation in 1976, U2 have played over 1,000 concerts to millions of fans around the world. Now updated to include their PopMart and Elevation tours, U2 Live: A Concert Documentary takes you along to every single U2 live performance - from 1976 to 2003. With over 500 colour and black & white photographs.
Author: Scott D. Calhoun
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0810881578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring U2: Is This Rock 'n' Roll? features new writing in the growing field of U2 studies. In keeping with U2's own efforts to remove barriers that have long prevented dialogue for understanding and improving the human experience, this collection of essays covers such disciplines as literature, music, philosophy, and theology.
Author: Deena Dietrich
Publisher: Deenasdays
Published: 2015-04-12
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780692422991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin me on my musical journey on the road with U2 to the 75 shows I have seen since the Zoo TV tour in 1992. Meeting Bono in Jersey, hugging Larry in Baltimore, having a drink with Larry in Providence, talking with Bono in Seattle, hugging Larry again in Pittsburgh - just to name a few.
Author: Matt McGee
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 936
ISBN-13: 0857127438
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new and updated edition of U2 A Diary brings U2s story up to date with information about the band’s ground-breaking film, U2 3D, recording sessions for No Line on the Horizon and the story of how the album was leaked online twice before its official release, the U2 360 world tour and Bono’s back injury that forced an entire leg to be postponed and the band’s struggles to decide how to follow No Line on the Horizon and the 360 Tour with new material. Here is the complete history of U2 told exactly as it happened in day-by-day diary format. As well as following the mid-1970's birth of the band to the present day in journal form, U2: A Diary also includes new revelations and fresh insights into key moments of U2's development. Through interviews and extensive research, author Matt McGee sheds light on stories. Fully illustrated with pictures spanning the bands career, this is a fanatically detailed account of a legendary group's life!
Author: Glen Berger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1451684584
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“One of the best literary works of this year” (Miami Herald-Tribune): The true story of a theatrical dream—or nightmare—come true…the making of the Spider-Man musical. As you might imagine, writing a Broadway musical has its challenges. But it turns out there are challenges one can’t begin to imagine when collaborating with two rock legends and a superstar director to stage the biggest, most expensive production in theater history. Renowned director Julie Taymor picked playwright Glen Berger to cowrite the book for a $25 million Spider-Man musical. Together—along with U2’s Bono and Edge—they would shape a work that was technically daring and emotionally profound, with a story fueled by the hero’s quest for love…and the villains’ quest for revenge. Or at least, that’s what they’d hoped for. But when charismatic producer Tony Adams died suddenly, the show began to lose its footing. Soon the budget was ballooning, financing was evaporating, and producers were jumping ship or getting demoted. And then came the injuries. And then came word-of-mouth about the show itself. What followed was a pageant of foul-ups, falling-outs, ever-more harrowing mishaps, and a whole lot of malfunctioning spider legs. This “circus-rock-and-roll-drama,” with its $65 million price tag, had become more of a spectacle than its creators ever wished for. During the show’s unprecedented seven months of previews, the company’s struggles to reach opening night inspired breathless tabloid coverage and garnered international notoriety. Through it all, Berger observed the chaos with his signature mix of big ambition and self-deprecating humor.
Author: Peter Williams
Publisher: Harmony
Published: 1988-11-19
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780517572146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells the behind the scenes story of an Irish rock and roll band in America.
Author: Ingunn Røysland
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2024-03-18
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 1666930997
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn U2’s Songs of Trauma and Hope: “Between the Midnight and the Dawning", Ingunn Røysland and Charles Ivan Armstrong show that trauma is an important theme for U2. While this leads the band to confront extreme instances of grief and suffering, this does not prevent them to cross (in the words of their song “A Sort of Homecoming”) “the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance.” Theories from trauma and memory studies are deployed in the examination of song lyrics and performances by U2, spanning from the early days of the band to more recent times. In their exploration of light and dark, of hope and trauma within the U2 catalogue, Røysland and Armstrong acknowledge the complexity of the songs, addressing different layers, including romantic as well as divine allegory. The authors also address the band’s troublesome lyrics, with an entire chapter devoted to “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” as well as the role of multidirectional memory and significant places, so-called lieux de mémoire, in U2’s dealings with a ranger of historical conflicts and crises. They further examine how music plays an important part in the path of healing from traumatic wounds, analysing the reception of the songs. Ultimately, it is suggested, U2 shows us how to get “through the night.”
Author: Andy Beck
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780757924088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve of U2's greatest songs with "soundalike" backing tracks and full instrumental demos on CD. Each song is offered in guitar tab and standard notation plus chord symbols and complete lyrics for vocalists. The two CDs contain full performance demos showing how each song should sound and separate backing tracks without the guitar so that you can play along with these rock superhits. Titles are: All I Want Is You * Beautiful Day * Desire * Elevation * Even Better Than the Real Thing * Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For * New Year's Day * One * Pride (In the Name of Love) * Sunday Bloody Sunday * Where the Streets Have No Name.
Author: Bradley Morgan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1493061186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKU2 planted the seeds for The Joshua Tree during an existential journey through America. As Irishmen in the 1970s, the band grew up with the belief that America was a place of freedom and prosperity, a symbol of hope and a refuge for all people. However, global politics of the 1980s undermined that impression and fostered hypocritical policies that manipulated Americans and devastated people around the world. Originally conceived as "The Two Americas," The Joshua Tree was U2's critique of America. Rather than living up to the ideal that the country was "an idea that belongs to people who need it most," the band found that America sacrificed equality and justice for populism and fascism. This book explores the political, social, and cultural themes rooted in The Joshua Tree when it was originally released in 1987 and how those themes resonated as a response to the election of Donald Trump when U2 toured for the album's 30th anniversary. The author juxtaposes the band's existential journey through America with his own journey connecting with his Irish roots by becoming a citizen in the age of Trump and places U2's and The Joshua Tree's relevance in context with the current political climate.
