{"id":131,"date":"2021-09-19T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/?page_id=131"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T09:56:31","slug":"u2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/o5go.com\/music\/u2\/","title":{"rendered":"U2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U2<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=U2+playlist\">https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=U2+playlist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U2\u00a0are an Irish\u00a0rock\u00a0band from\u00a0Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of\u00a0Bono\u00a0(lead vocals and rhythm guitar),\u00a0the Edge\u00a0(lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals),\u00a0Adam Clayton\u00a0(bass guitar), and\u00a0Larry Mullen Jr.\u00a0(drums and percussion). Initially rooted in\u00a0post-punk, U2&#8217;s musical style has evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono&#8217;s expressive vocals and the Edge&#8217;s chiming,\u00a0effects-based guitar sounds. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal and sociopolitical themes. Popular for their live performances, the group have staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band was formed when the members were teenaged pupils of&nbsp;Mount Temple Comprehensive School&nbsp;and had limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed with&nbsp;Island Records&nbsp;and released their debut album,&nbsp;Boy&nbsp;(1980). Subsequent work such as their first UK number-one album,&nbsp;War&nbsp;(1983), and the singles &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday&#8221; and &#8220;Pride (In the Name of Love)&#8221; helped establish U2&#8217;s reputation as a politically and socially conscious group. By the mid-1980s, they had become renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at&nbsp;Live Aid&nbsp;in 1985. The group&#8217;s fifth album,&nbsp;The Joshua Tree&nbsp;(1987), made them international superstars and was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US to date: &#8220;With or Without You&#8221; and &#8220;I Still Haven&#8217;t Found What I&#8217;m Looking For&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing creative stagnation and a backlash to their documentary\/double album,&nbsp;Rattle and Hum&nbsp;(1988), U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s. Beginning with their acclaimed seventh album,&nbsp;Achtung Baby&nbsp;(1991), and the multimedia-intensive&nbsp;Zoo TV Tour, the band pursued a new musical direction influenced by&nbsp;alternative rock,&nbsp;electronic dance music, and&nbsp;industrial music, and they embraced a more ironic, flippant image. This experimentation continued through their ninth album,&nbsp;Pop&nbsp;(1997), and the&nbsp;PopMart Tour, which were mixed successes. U2 regained critical and commercial favour with the records&nbsp;All That You Can&#8217;t Leave Behind&nbsp;(2000) and&nbsp;How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb&nbsp;(2004), which established a more conventional, mainstream sound for the group. Their&nbsp;U2 360\u00b0 Tour&nbsp;of 2009\u20132011 set records for the highest-attended and&nbsp;highest-grossing concert tour, both of which were surpassed in 2019. The group most recently released the companion albums&nbsp;Songs of Innocence&nbsp;(2014) and&nbsp;Songs of Experience&nbsp;(2017), the former of which received criticism for its pervasive, no-cost release through the&nbsp;iTunes Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U2 have released 14 studio albums and are one of the world&#8217;s\u00a0best-selling music artists, having sold an estimated 150\u2013170 million records worldwide.[1]\u00a0They have won 22\u00a0Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and in 2005, they were inducted into the\u00a0Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u00a0in their first year of eligibility.\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0ranked U2 at number 22 on its\u00a0list of the &#8220;100 Greatest Artists of All Time&#8221;.[2]\u00a0Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and social justice causes, including\u00a0Amnesty International,\u00a0Jubilee 2000, the\u00a0ONE\/DATA\u00a0campaigns,\u00a0Product Red,\u00a0War Child, and\u00a0Music Rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>View more &#8211; Wikipedia.org:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U2\">https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U2 https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/results?search_query=U2+playlist U2\u00a0are an Irish\u00a0rock\u00a0band from\u00a0Dublin, formed in 1976. 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