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U2 will celebrate their seminal Achtung Baby album with a Las Vegas residency – but where are the UK and Ireland dates?
By Rob Laing published
The band are seemingly not trying to throw their arms around the world with this show

Bono says he wants U2 to release “a noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” like AC/DC
By Jonathan Horsley published
And he wants Mutt Lange to produce it? “The approach. The discipline. The songwriting discipline. That’s what we want,” says the U2 frontman

Bono remembers U2's first rehearsal in Larry Mullen Jr's kitchen with 'weirdo' the Edge… and takes the blame for their iTunes album misstep
By Rob Laing published
"David Evans, whom no one had yet named the Edge, had the coolest aura of anybody"

U2's The Edge and Bono perform acoustic version of Sunday Bloody Sunday with new lyrics
By Rob Laing last updated
The performance marked the 50th anniversary of the Derry massacre in Northern Ireland

Bono says the guitar on The Fly is "the sound of Edge's brain"
By Rob Laing published
The Edge also explains how Madchester, Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM all fed into U2's sonic reinvention on Achtung Baby

5 underappreciated U2 songs guitarists need to hear by… The Edge
By Owen Bailey published
Celebrating Achtung Baby's 30th anniversary and other gems

Gretsch launches Bono guitar
By Jamie Dickson last updated
Gretsch and U2 star Bono have launched a special (RED) edition of the double-cutaway 5623 Electromatic to raise funds for the global fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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