The U2 WikiProject NewsletterWikiProject U2 Issue V - 1st May 2013
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— U2, "Stateless"
U2 News
April 25, 2013 - Bono revealed the working title of the new album is "10 Reasons to Exist" The band have been recording in Dublin, New York and the South of France over the last few months. [1]
Apr 28, 2013 – Promoter of U2’s Red Rocks concert Barry Fey dead at 73.[2]
No Line on the Horizon was released on 27 February 2009.
It marked the longest gap between studio albums of U2's career.
The band originally intended to release the songs as two EPs, but later combined the material into a single record.
The supporting U2 360° Tour, spanning 2009 to 2011, was the highest-grossing concert tour in history, with ticket sales over $736 million.
The singles for this album were "Get on Your Boots", "Magnificent", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go :Crazy Tonight"
The Album's Cover
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Berlin, 2008)
The cover art for No Line on the Horizon is a photograph of Lake Constance, taken by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto; titled Boden Sea, it is one of 200 pictures in his Seascapes collection.
^McGee, Matt (December 14, 2009). "U2 Scores Top Tour of 2009, Second of Decade: Full recap of U2 appearances on Billboard's year-end of decade-end charts". @U2. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
The U2 WikiProject NewsletterWikiProject U2 Issue II - June 2013
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Welcome to the August edition of the U2 WikiProject Newsletter. As you may have noticed, we are now doing themed newsletters. This one (if you haven't already guessed) is How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Every month the newsletter will have a different theme. There will also be a special edition when the new album is released. Also thanks to Neranei for some of the U2 news.
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