U2, one of the most iconic rock bands of all time, has left a mark on the music industry with their memorable songs, anthemic sound and socially conscious lyrics. Formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1976, ...

U2 first crossed paths with B.B. King in early 1987, when the blues icon played a show in Dublin. It was King’s idea to record a song together. When U2 headed to America later that year, they booked a ...

Few rock bands have been as successful over the last 50 years as U2. They've earned it, forming as teenagers in the late '70s and creating challenging rock that mixed the personal, political, and ...

Achtung Baby was an unexpected reinvention from U2. Inspired by club culture, industrial music, and alternative rock, the album found U2’s four members dumping the self-serious scowls they’d sported ...

Of course, one further irony is that the band wouldn’t even have reached the point of touring as ‘the new U2’ without One, ...

U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has been named among the 100 best protest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. The song, the opening track of the Irish band's 1983 album "War," landed in 30th place - right ...

U2's new album How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb debuts on a trio of charts in the U.K. this week, just after How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb returned. (MANDATORY CREDIT Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty ...

The Cure is back and I bet those U2 billionaires are about to drop a whole new variant when they see this… oh wait. Just kidding, thought this was Pop Stan Twitter for a minute, BUT U2 did actually ...

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U2 guitarist the Edge said the band is working with Brian Eno on music with an Irish folk element, which could appear on their next album. Following 2017’s Songs of Experience, U2 released Songs of ...