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Tuesday May 22 | Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph

Multi-Millionaire Tax Avoider Bono of U2: Only "brain-dead,...

Multi-Millionaire Tax Avoider Bono of U2: Only "brain-dead, heart-dead ideologues or professional controversialists" Are Against Government Aid For His Preferred Charities As a longtime U2 fan - and someone who shelled out hundreds of dollars to take my kids to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring music by Bono and The Edge - I must ... (more)

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, U2

Sun May 20, 2012

NNDB

Bono

The second of two boys born into a combined Catholic/Protestant Irish househould, Paul Hewson spent his childhood in North Dublin, developing his talents as a argumentative pain-in-the-ass long before music became an interest.

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Related Topix: Live Aid, Music!, Bono, Pop/Rock, The Edge, Celebrities, U2

Fri May 18, 2012

The Miami Herald

Ireland: Little Museum of Dublin

In the beginning there was Bono. And what a baby face he had. Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s Dublin are on exhibit in the band's home city.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, U2, The Stranglers

ContactMusic.com

Facebook To Go Public: Bono Set To Make $1 Billion

Picture: Bono Bono and Glen Hansard join buskers singing for charity at the entrance to St Stephen's Park Dublin, Ireland .... Today is the day that Facebook will get floated on the stock exchange.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, U2

Wed May 16, 2012

Examiner.com

Switchfoot's music gets switched around

There really isn't a Switchfoot sound. There are bands you recognize the moment one of their songs come on the radio.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Switchfoot, The Edge, U2, Dance, The Original

Independent Weekly

Free Electric State's Monumental Life

Free Electric State plays with Filthybird and Last Remaining Pinnacle at The Pinhook Friday, May 18.

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Tue May 15, 2012

Austin American-Statesman

Newsmakers: Early U2 photos on display; British rapper gears up for Olympics

Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s Dublin were unveiled last week at an exhibition in the band's home city.

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This Is Leicestershire

Leicester Mercury published You too can join U2 service

A minister will be swapping traditional hymns for tracks by rock band U2 at a communion service with a difference this weekend.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., U2

Fri May 11, 2012

OhNoTheyDidnt

11 Classic Bands Who Changed Their Names

There's been quite a spate of name-changery going on in the indie rock ranks right now, as people like DIIV , VR , and POP ETC have decided to change stuff up .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, Oasis, Dance, Coldplay, The Beach Boys

Independent.ie

U2 boss tells of hairy times in early days

But U2 boss Paul McGuinness revealed last night how he once used his bare hands to eject a troublemaker "by the hair or in a headlock" from one of his band's earliest gigs.

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Related Topix: The Edge, Pop/Rock, U2

Thu May 10, 2012

My Mother Lode

Dublin showcases earliest photos of baby-faced U2

Photographs documenting the gritty beginnings of U2 in the smoky pubs and clubs of 1970s Dublin are being unveiled Thursday at an exhibition in the band's home city.

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Sat May 05, 2012

The Kansas City Star

Civil Twilight wears influences proudly: South African quartet shines at Beaumont Club

Stories of impressionable children seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show and deciding to pick up an instrument are legion.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Fab Four, The Edge, U2, Radiohead

Tue May 01, 2012

Newsday

Tony Award nominations: 'Once' gets 11 nods

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Related Topix: Theater, Once, New York, Music!, Tony Awards, Pop/Rock, The Edge, Drama Movies, Leap of Faith, Comedy Movies, Entertainment

Sun Apr 29, 2012

Creative Pro

Software: How to Free Download U2 Video and Make Your Own U2 DVD

Whether you have got a ticket or not, whether you have problem buying a ticket, travelling to California or whatever.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., U2

ContactMusic.com

Bono - Bono Attends Artist Louis Le Brocquy's Funeral

U2 stars Bono and The Edge were among the mourners paying their respects to celebrated Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy at a memorial on Saturday .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Edge, U2, Deliverance, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Thriller, Adventure

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