’Cause tonight, we can be as one. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was always U2’s epistle to Ireland. The band witnessed the often violent conflicts unfolding between Irish nationalists and unionists from the ...

U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" has been named among the 100 best protest songs of all time by Rolling Stone. The song, the opening track of the Irish band's 1983 album "War," landed in 30th place - right ...

Jennifer Duck is an assistant professor of media studies at Belmont University and a two-time Emmy award winner. Dr. Christa Ballard Tooley is the academic director of the Belmont Innovation Labs and ...

When the members of U2 decided to rediscover their past, they enlisted Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews as one of their guides. U2’s new album, “Songs of Surrender,” features radically altered versions ...

With “Songs of Surrender,” an album of 40 reimagined songs, and “A Sort of Homecoming,” a documentary on Disney+, the Irish band pauses to reflect. By Jon Pareles For decades, U2 refused to rest on ...

It’s May 30th, 1983 and U2 lead singer Bono is addressing a crowd of several hundred thousand at the US Festival in San Bernardino, California. “When we first arrived in your country, I tried to ...

In reimagining 40 of their best-known songs, U2 recognized that many fans would experience them through earphones connected to a device in their pockets — rather than being belted out onstage.That was ...