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| U2 Trivia :
Trivia of U2 |
- In 1985 at the Live aid concert in London, while playing the song
.Bad., Bono started dancing with a girl from the audience leaving his band
to play, and the song overran for 12 minutes. Feeling that he had ruined
the set for the rest of the band, Bono actually considered leaving the
band after that event, until convinced otherwise, and instead Rolling
Stones readers gave U2 the .Best Live Aid Performance. award and naturally
he stayed.
- The song .Bad. was written about the consequences of drug usage.
- They filmed the video of .Where the streets have no name. live on
top of a liquor store, Down town L.A, resulting in a gathering of over
10,000 fans to the streets.
- During a concert in San Francisco, Bono spray painted .Rock N.
Roll Stops the Traffic. on a statue. The mayor pressed charges on Bono for
Graffiti, which were later on dropped. Some even believe that little event
was the cause of the Mayor.s loss of popularity during the next election!
- That .Achtung Baby. was inspired by .attention Baby. a phrase
that caught their attention in a Mel Brooks movie.
- All the earnings of the song .One. went to aids research.
- The ZooTv tour was inspired while Bono was watching a bombing
during the MEA war on CNN news. As the pilot was commenting on how real it
felt, U2 decided to show how the media desensitizes its viewers to the
extent that they confuse reality with fiction.
- The .Sweetest Thing. was meant as a late birthday gift to Bono.s
wife.
- The band put a .climbing band. on Bono after he fell off a
scaffolding in 1987 and dislocated his shoulder.
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