Although he eventually became a world-renowned singer at the helm of one of the biggest rock bands of all time, Bono still hadn't found what he was looking for as a vocalist on U2's first album. “I’ve ...

It's hard to think now of U2 ever being anything but stadium-filling rock 'n' roll monsters. They almost seemed destined for it from the start, and they've played the role for so long, that settling ...

Between September of 1979 and May of 1980, U2 released seven tracks, on three different 45s. These songs seemed like flawed, minor pleasures, and the overall effect of these discs was far from ...

The beautiful-faced boy featured on U2's album covers for "Boy" and "War" has spoken out in favor of a "No" vote on Ireland’s Eighth Amendment referendum, which would mean a change to Ireland's ...

Few debuts detonate with Boy’s immediacy. “I Will Follow”-a gale-force introduction spotlighting the Edge’s buckshot silhouettes and Bono’s frenetic holler-became an instant standard. Unfortunately, ...

This could be the greatest comment on RollingStone.com ever: U2‘s Bono was reading David Fricke‘s review of the new reissue of Boy, and was moved to respond. Unfortunately, he maxed out our word limit ...

U2’s hardcore fans unearthed an important piece of the band’s history earlier this month with the discovery of an audience recording from an August 1979 gig the group played at Dublin’s Dandelion ...

For many members of Generation X, “The Joshua Tree” is the greatest album of all time. For everyone else, well, the U2 masterpiece is still one of greatest albums of all time (and don’t give me that ...

A 10-year old Livermore boy has quite the show-and-tell story for school after returning from Paris. Jacob Garcia just returned from abroad where he was flown by the band U2 to see their poignant ...

It's sometimes hard to imagine it, but there was a time when U2 weren't the biggest band in the known universe. Back at the end of the 1970s, fired up by punk rock, four young men from Dublin set out ...