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2025-02-11: Bono Stories of Surrender and new version of book in May

As we told you last month, Bono’s Surrender will be back in the spotlight later this year. We now have new details that we can share with you about the film and an accompanying release of the book in softcover.

First up is the Apple Original Films documentary, Bono: Stories of Surrender. The film will be formally announced soon, and is expected to debut in early May on Apple’s subscription...

2025-02-06: U2 Announced for Record Store Day

U2’s contribution to Record Store Day 2025 has been announced.

This year they’ll be releasing a double vinyl record for the 30th anniversary of Passengers, Original Soundtracks 1.

Record Store Day 2025 will be held on April 12, 2025 this year.

More details on the release can be found in our discography entry here.

A number of sites are set up for local information regarding Record...

2025-01-31: U2Com Renewal Questions

We’re getting a number of messages asking what fans should do in regards to renewing for U2.com as the 2025 gift offer has not gone live. If you are in this situation, we offer what help we can below. But as always, any information published on U2.com regarding subscription offers should be considered correct and current over any information found below.

For those fans who joined U2.com...

2025-01-30: Breaking Waves…Fire Aid, Lists, Marianne Faithfull, V-U2

Getting a lot of questions today about the Fire Aid concerts which will start in a couple of hours. U2 shared on their social media accounts news of the concerts and how to view them. The concerts take place tonight at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum in Los Angeles and will be widely streamed on television and the internet. U2, however, are not listed to perform, but we will be keeping an...

2025-01-04: Bono: Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bono. Just Bono. That’s how he was called when awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. Bono was one of 19 honorees today, awarded the medal by President Joe Biden. Others awarded the medal today include actors Michael J. Fox and Denzel Washington, athletes Magic Johnson and Lionel Messi, scientists Jane Goodall and Bill Nye, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The...

2024-12-31: U2024: A Year in Review

Each year at the end of the year we do a little recap of things here at U2Songs. We’ll look at the releases, the radio specials, the reissues, and more in this article. Links to the earlier recaps from previous years are available at the end of the article. We take the opportunity to look back on the material added to the site over the year, and U2’s career over the twelve months, with a...

2024-12-23: New U2X-Radio Show from Adam Clayton Debuts

Here’s a little surprise before the year ends.

U2 X-Radio debuted a new show by Adam Clayton today, called “Don’t Ask Me I’m the Bass Player”.

The show is described as “Adam Clayton invites fellow bass players, across all genres, to choose their essential tracks as musicians and share the stories behind them.” The first episode saw Adam Clayton speaking with Colin Greenwood, the bass...

2024-12-21: U218 Singles on Vinyl Over the Years

Original Story: Published 2024-09-16. Updated Story: Published 2024-12-21

Here we are three months after the initial story, and we’ve identified a new 2024 pressing on black vinyl being sold worldwide. The article below has been modified to update information about this new pressing.

Note: Repressing and reissuing records is part of the record business and is done routinely when a record...

2024-12-16: U2’s Upcoming Albums and Tour

We maintain a permanent page about U2’s Upcoming Projects. With the release of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb and Larry’s press tour for Left Behind there has been much new information from the band themselves where the upcoming albums stand, what they are working on, and with whom. As we attempt to get that page back into an updated form, we present a little look at the new album projects...

2024-12-10: Larry Mullen “One of Us” and “Between the Lines” Now Released

As of today, worldwide, Larry Mullen has released two new songs. Both are taken from the film Left Behind and have been heard in that film. Both are solo songs for Larry, working with other artists to contribute music to the film. These singles are available digitally now, on streaming services and digital store fronts.

The two songs are available as standalone singles. Each single...

2024-12-04: How to Promote an Atomic Bomb

Last Updated: 2024-12-04

Atomic Bomb Promotion

As we’ve done in the past for other releases, we’re setting up a story here, which will track U2’s appearances over the next few days from media appearances to promote the album, to stories about the album in press, to the album reviews which started appearing today.

The collection of links take you to pages outside of U2Songs.com and we...

2024-11-26: Adam Clayton Shares Tour Plans in 2026 or 2027

Adam Clayton appeared on RTL with Éric Jean-Jean today. The full interview can be heard here. Of particular note is his answer to what comes next for U2. It’s the most detailed answer to date:

We are recording, we are in and out of the studio. We really want to get a record of new songs to our audience. When we know what that record is, we’ll go out and tour it. I don’t know which year....