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U2

December 2018

  • Chasing Bono 2018 Soho Theatre - Niall McNamee (Neil). Photography by Helen Maybanks (2)

    Chasing Bono review – charming portrait of a wannabe rock star

    Neil McCormick’s memoir about schoolmates-turned-rock stars is brought to raucous life

October 2018

  • U2 at Manchester Arena

    U2 review – eye-popping show finds rock icons at their most human

  • Ray Cooper.

    Other lives
    Ray Cooper obituary

September 2018

  • ‘We did a rehearsal and it went wrong’ … the superstar DJ warms up at Stonehenge.

    'We did it!' – behind the decks at Paul Oakenfold's Stonehenge rave

    He’s played Everest and the Great Wall of China. So what happened when Oakenfold set out to become the first person ever to DJ at Stonehenge? Our writer grabs his glow stick and heads for the A303
  • Rod Stewart performs at the 02 Arena in February 2017.

    My top 10 songs are not Scotland’s but they’re in my heart, they’re in my soul

    Kevin McKenna
    My countrymen’s choice of their favourite Scottish albums weren’t to my taste...
  • Bono

    U2 cancel concert in Berlin after Bono loses his voice

    Singer forced to leave stage in Germany after only a few songs after his voice cuts out

August 2018

  • pop-autumn-reviews-2018

    Autumn arts preview 2018
    Big noise: the essential pop, jazz and folk music of autumn 2018

  • Nicki Minaj

    How Nicki Minaj became the Queen of the chaotic album campaign

July 2018

  • Now and then … a composite of Now That’s What I Call Music covers, past and present

    The music essay
    Now that's what I call a tracklist: how the compilation's 100th edition sells its history short

    Now That’s What I Call Music’s 100th edition includes a greatest hits disc that favours the arena titans – overlooking the pleasure of rediscovering the one-hit wonders and sub-genres buried in these pop time capsules

February 2018

  • Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones at the 1984 Grammy Awards.

    Quincy Jones: 'The Beatles were the worst musicians in the world'

  • Beyoncé

    Ranked
    The 10 greatest Super Bowl half-time shows - ranked!

January 2018

  • 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Show<br>NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 28: Recording artist Bruno Mars and production team The Stereotypes accept the Song of the Year award onstage during the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)

    Grammys: Bruno Mars wins album, record and song of the year – as it happened

    Kesha revives subdued ceremony with Time’s Up performance against sexual harassment while Hillary Clinton makes a surprise appearance
  • Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90, Featuring David Bowie & Tony Visconti & Edu Meyer, © Edu Mayer.

    TV review
    Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90 review – the most thrillingly creative place on earth

    The legendary studio in West Berlin, where David Bowie made ‘Heroes’, and Iggy Pop, Depeche Mode and U2 recorded some of their best music makes a brilliant subject in this resonant and romantic documentary
  • Bono.

    Lithuanian company linked to Bono fined after Paradise Papers revelations

    Company also agrees to pay €53,000 in back taxes following investigation, as U2 frontman ends his minority investment

December 2017

  • Bono from U2

    Music has 'gotten very girly’, says Bono from U2

    Singer tells Rolling Stone ‘hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment – and that’s not good’
  • Saturday Night Live - Season 43<br>SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE -- Episode 1732 -- Pictured: (l-r) Host Saoirse Ronan with Cecily Strong during a promo in 30 Rockefeller Plaza -- (Photo by: Rosalind O’Connor/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

    Saturday Night Live recap
    Saturday Night Live: ‘sexual gratification in the form of Trump’s slow demise’

    In the week of the Flynn guilty plea, SNL declared this presidency done – and made a lot of potato jokes in honor of host Saoirse Ronan and musical guest U2
  • U2

    Kitty Empire's album of the week
    U2: Songs of Experience review – an insipid try-hard

    This companion piece to 2014’s Songs of Innocence is stronger on love than politics, but lacks the passion to inspire

November 2017

  • U2 (from left) Larry Mullen Jr, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Bono.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    U2: Songs of Experience review – frequently fantastic return to form

  • Bono

    Paradise Papers
    Bono used Malta-based firm to invest in Lithuanian shopping centre

September 2017

  • U2 singer Bono in concert in New Orleans, 14 September. The band’s St Louis show on 16 September has been cancelled due to protests in the city.

    U2 and Ed Sheeran cancel St Louis shows due to security concerns

    Protests in St Louis over the acquittal of a white former police officer charged with murdering a black man have led to more than 30 arrests
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