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U2 has been one of the most popular, acclaimed, and successful rock bands of all time. The Dublin-based quartet was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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• "To be like Jesus, we need Jesus himself"

  
  holy heteroclite — Authority: 135
  Amazingly, I have not read many interpretations of U2s "When You Look at the World" that will even admit that the song only ultimately makes sense as a prayer..as the "you" is "You" (Jesus)... (Almost everyone says it is addressed..only...to his wife). And I am not sure I have read any that get what I have always ...
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• Play On - Harvard Political Review

  
  U2 Sermons — Authority: 457
  This article in the undergraduate Harvard Political Review critiques some aspects of the political section of the 360 show. Excerpt: Its unclear what good it does to have Nobel laureate and real hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, tell the audience, while name-dropping the tour, that the "same people who marched for ...
  10 hours ago

• America’s Funniest Home Videos part 15 (lU2BE2)

  
  Funny Videos - Funny Commercials - Stupid Videos - Crazy Videos — Authority: 145
  If you like America’s Funniest Home Videos please visit my channel for hours of funny videos just like this. Thank you for watching. Technorati Tags: 15 , accidents , afv , Americas , Australias , Bloopers , blunders , caidas , Compilation , episode , Filmulete , funniest , funny , golpes , hilarious ...
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• CW: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

  
  Hidden Track — Authority: 530
  Cher w/ Rosie O’Donnell : This, err, interesting rendition comes to us off the 1999 release A Rosie Christmas . Death Cab For Cutie : This version I really like, it’s got that unique Death Cab spin. It comes from the compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree . I bet Ben Gibbard is performing a great duet of this ...
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• Do They Know It’s Christmas - Band Aid

  
  Relentless Earworms — Authority: 112
  Maybe it’s because I can still remember the MTV debut of this video. Maybe it’s the simple optimism and self-importance of this song. Maybe it’s because they pulled British legends and one-hit wonders into a studio at the same time. Maybe it’s Bono’s “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” -inspired yelp, George ...
  11 hours ago

• Summer Festivus 2010: Our best guestimates…, Part 2

  
  Consequence of Sound — Authority: 605
  Admittedly, our first guestimates for next year’s summer festivus didn’t turn out too well. After all, schedules change, guitarists quit , and predictions, well, are just predictions, and sometimes they don’t turn out correct. So, per request, we decided to give it another try. Hopefully this time around ...
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• “Just The Ticket” interview series part 2 of 5: Steve Machin, Stormcrowd

  
  Music Ally — Authority: 633
  In the second part of a five-part series on self-service ticketing we speak to Steve Machin, whose extensive experience at companies from Ticketmaster to Tixdaq to Live Nation’s Ultrastar makes him a leading expert in the world of entertainment ticketing. Steve’s comments can also be found within a feature in ...
  18 hours ago

• Ticketmaster and Live Nation merger given go-ahead by UK watchdog

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • UK green light for worlds biggest concert promoter and ticket seller • Deal faces US opposition with campaign against ticketdisaster Britains Competition Commission has executed a U-turn by approving the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, just two months after claiming the deal would harm consumers . The ...
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• Dublin Street Art

  
  Equipment For Photographers — Authority: 169
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• "Its better to be drunk on the Holy Spirit but sometimes Jack Daniels is handier"

  
  holy heteroclite — Authority: 135
  "Its better to be drunk on the Holy Spirit but sometimes Jack Daniels is handier" -Bono, 1989
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• Like Were Dying: The 10 Worst Singles Of 2009

  
  Chart Rigger — Authority: 127
  Pop, you have given us some inexcusable, briny three-minute buckets of chum his year. (And surprisingly, Fergie wasnt warbling on all of them!) Luckily, Dluv and his trusty pal Moogaboo are here to swab the deck once again, and throw the worst offenders into the depths of the ocean like an unsavory pile of ...
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• Muse Rock Out on Saturday Night Live

  
  Spinner — Authority: 729
  Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Television Capping off a successful 2009, Muse appeared as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live in an episode hosted by actor James Franco . The UK rockers performed Uprising, the lead single off their latest album The Resistance, as well as ...
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• U2s Adam Clayton suing former assistant over missing funds

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  The bassist with the Irish stadium rockers claims that his former personal assistant embezzled as much as £1.6m from his accounts over 13 months U2s Adam Clayton is suing his former assistant, Carol Hawkins, alleging that she stole as much at £1.6m from his accounts. On Friday, an Irish judge temporarily froze ...
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• Top CDs of the decade include Kanye, U2, Jay-Z…and Mimi?

  
  The Blender — Authority: 435
  Picking my favorite CDs of this rapidly-closing decade seemed like such a daunting task I initially wanted nothing to do with it. But I decided to go for it, after some careful deliberation that included going back over my annual best…
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• Concert Travel – U2 Draws No Line on the Horizon for 360° Tour

  
  Vacations Blog — Authority: 429
  What can be said about U2 that is not common knowledge? The 22 Grammy awards – the most ever won by a band, enroute to the 12 albums and 145 million records sold, or the watershed Live Aid concert which put U2 and Bono on the map and on the way to becoming a major force for philanthropy through music.  U2 ...
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• BEST OF THE 00s: U2

  
  No Expiration - a blog about timeless music — Authority: 137
  At the start of the 00s, U2 were in a weird place.  In the early 90s, they reinvented themselves in as radical a way as any other rock band ever had. Going from the Americana-influenced ernestness of Joshua Tree and Rattle & Hum , they returned as jaded techno-fuelled rock stars who didnt take much seriously ...
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• U2 Bassist Adam Clayton Claims Former Assistant Stole €1.8 Million

  
  TwentyFourBit — Authority: 573
  Poor Adam Clayton. Not poor in the financial sense, of course, but the one time he makes headlines over Bono and the Edge and it’s over legal/financial hassles. Irish Times reports that the U2 bassist is accusing his former assistant and housekeeper, Carol Hawkins, of spending €1.8 million of his money on a New ...
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• U2’s Adam Clayton accuses assistant of stealing millions

  
  no treble — Authority: 141
  U2 bassist Adam Clayton has accused Carol Hawkins, his former personal assistant, of stealing €1.8m ($2.5 million) from him. Clayton has received a court order in Ireland, to freeze the assets of Hawkins.Clayton fired Hawkins last month for misappropriating money, including purchasing personal items with ...
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• Daily Digest for December 20th

  
  U2 Online Blog — Authority: 120
  U2 ‘Artificial Horizon’ fan club CD features 13 remixes by likes of Trent Reznor, Jacknife Lee – http://shar.es/aDITC [ # ] U2’s The Edge Predicts The End of Record Labels – http://shar.es/aDOC0 [ # ]
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• Adam Clayton freezes former assistants accounts

  
  No Rock And Roll Fun — Authority: 147
  Adam Clayton has got the courts to freeze former assistant Carol Hawkins assets. Clayton claims that Hawkins has stolen something like £1.6million from him. Hawkins admits taking money, but disputes the amount.
  2 days ago

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