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5 days ago
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Bono on U2's New Album: ‘Everyone in the Band Seems Desperate for It'
Almost ten years since the release of its last album, Songs of Experience, U2 is back in the studio. The band is cooking up new music and very likely gearing up for a whole new tour. If you hear it straight from the group's frontman, Bono, it's a matter of life and death. 'Everyone in the band seems desperate for it,' Bono told Esquire's Madison Vain in Esquire US's new cover story. 'It's like their lives depend on it. ... And, as I tell them, they do.' In between discussions of family, politics, health scares, and slowing down—including the story of Bono learning how to sit on his couch and binge-watch Chef's Table and Fleabag—the singer confirms that U2 is working on new material for a new album, which the band may greet with a whole new tour. The album is reuniting U2 with producer Brian Eno, who also produced The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and Zooropa. Although the album doesn't yet have a title, at least one song is tentatively titled 'Freedom Is a Feeling.' Bono said this of the still-in-development piece: 'The thing is, I don't just want to be singing about freedom. I want to be freedom, the feeling. That's what rock 'n' roll has to be.' Bono also strongly hinted at plans for a tour. 'I just like to play live,' Bono said. Though Bono enjoys his cozy dwellings in Côte d'Azur, which Esquire explores with Bono in the piece, he's looking to get out of the house in the right circumstances. 'You want to have some very good reasons to leave home,' he said. U2's latest album, Songs of Experience, was the world's sixth-best-selling album of 2017 and was supported by the Experience + Innocence Tour in 2018. More recently, U2 enjoyed a buzzy residency from September 2023 to March 2024 at Las Vegas's cutting-edge venue Sphere. The production earned critical acclaim, with outlets like Billboard, The Telegraph, and The Guardian observing how the marriage of U2's artistry and vision with the venue's technical capabilities creates a show that forecasts the future of live entertainment. Still, for U2, it's about the music, and even Bono admitted that he's unsure what the future holds. 'I hope they're going to still be there for us,' Bono said of the band's fans. 'We've pushed them to their elastic limit over the years. And now it's a long time that we've been away. But I still think that we can create a soundtrack for people who want to take on the world.' You Might Also Like The Best Men's Sunglasses For Summer '19 There's A Smartwatch For Every Sort Of Guy What You Should Buy For Your Groomsmen (And What They Really Want)
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bono on U2's New Album: ‘Everyone in the Band Seems Desperate for It'
Almost ten years since the release of its last album, Songs of Experience, U2 is back in the studio. The band is cooking up new music and very likely gearing up for a whole new tour. If you hear it straight from the group's frontman, Bono, it's a matter of life and death. 'Everyone in the band seems desperate for it,' Bono told Esquire's Madison Vain in our new cover story. 'It's like their lives depend on it.... And, as I tell them, they do.' In between discussions of family, politics, health scares, and slowing down—including the story of Bono learning how to sit on his couch and binge-watch Chef's Table and Fleabag—the singer confirms that U2 is working on new material for a new album, which the band may greet with a whole new tour. The album is reuniting U2 with producer Brian Eno, who also produced The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, and Zooropa. Although the album doesn't yet have a title, at least one song is tentatively titled 'Freedom Is a Feeling.' Bono said this of the still-in-development piece: 'The thing is, I don't just want to be singing about freedom. I want to be freedom, the feeling. That's what rock 'n' roll has to be.' Bono also strongly hinted at plans for a tour. 'I just like to play live,' Bono said. Though Bono enjoys his cozy dwellings in Côte d'Azur, which Esquire explores with Bono in the piece, he's looking to get out of the house in the right circumstances. 'You want to have some very good reasons to leave home,' he said. U2's latest album, Songs of Experience, was the world's sixth-best-selling album of 2017 and was supported by the Experience + Innocence Tour in 2018. More recently, U2 enjoyed a buzzy residency from September 2023 to March 2024 at Las Vegas's cutting-edge venue Sphere. The production earned critical acclaim, with outlets like Billboard, The Telegraph, and The Guardian observing how the marriage of U2's artistry and vision with the venue's technical capabilities creates a show that forecasts the future of live entertainment. Still, for U2, it's about the music, and even Bono admitted that he's unsure what the future holds. 'I hope they're going to still be there for us,' Bono said of the band's fans. 'We've pushed them to their elastic limit over the years. And now it's a long time that we've been away. But I still think that we can create a soundtrack for people who want to take on the world.' You Might Also Like Kid Cudi Is All Right 16 Best Shoe Organizers For Storing and Displaying Your Kicks
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Take the World's Hardest U2 Quiz
It's not hard to spot the hardcore fans at U2 shows. They're the ones wearing vintage Lovetown Tour T-shirts who scream louder for 'Acrobat' than 'Pride (In the Name of Love),' call out guitar tech Dallas Schoo by name when he brings the Edge a new instrument, and leap into the air on the rare occasions when Bono adds his 'shine like stars' coda to the final verse of 'With or Without You.' (If you have any idea what that even means, you're one of the people we're talking about here.) But U2 are a stadium band, and the vast majority of their audience largely just know the hits. A smaller subset owned The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby on cassette or CD back in the day, and have vague memories of the deeper cuts. To figure out where you fall on the spectrum of U2 fans, check out this quiz. 0 to 30 percent correct: Don't be discouraged. Just head to your favorite streaming service, load up the U2 catalog, and spend the next few hours soaking it all in. To start off, we'd recommend War, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Pop, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and No Line on the Horizon. Once you're done, check out the book U2 at the End of the World, by Bill Flanagan, and the group's own official oral history, U2 by U2. That's a lot of music and history to absorb, but this is a band on the verge of celebrating its 50th anniversary. More from Rolling Stone A Matthew Perry Shout-Out, an Andrea Bocelli Feature, and (Maybe Not) a Ye Track: Everything We Know About Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter VI' Take the World's Hardest Taylor Swift Quiz The World's Hardest Billy Joel Quiz 31 to 60 percent correct: Nice job. You are clearly someone who has spent some time with the catalog. If you wish to learn more, Rolling Stone has been covering U2 since the very beginning. The late James Henke called them 'the next big thing' in a pivotal 1981 article before most people in America knew they even existed. Four years later, we called them the 'Band of the 80s' when the decade was just halfway over. (It's also one of the worst cover photos we've ever run. For some reason, they're buried in shadows in front of a haunted staircase.) Pore through all of these articles and you're likely to emerge an expert. 61 to 100 percent correct: Congrats! You're a true U2 aficionado. You probably know every word to 'Womanfish' and 'Pete the Chop,' watched the original Year in Pop ABC broadcast in 1997, and even the raw Rattle and Hum footage that leaked out decades back. There's not much more we can teach you at this point. But if you're looking for great bootlegs, we recommend May 6, 1983, in Boston; Jan. 10, 1990, in Rotterdam, Netherlands; June 11, 1992, in Stockholm; and May 6, 2001, in Pittsburgh. Hopefully they'll start their own official Bootleg Series. But then again, you surely have all of this stuff anyway. Looking for more Rolling Stone ? Try these: The World's Hardest Taylor Swift QuizThe World's Hardest The Office QuizThe World's Hardest Saturday Night Live QuizThe World's Hardest Billy Joel QuizThe World's Hardest Bob Dylan Quiz The World's Hardest Bruce Springsteen Quiz Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
