The numbers associated with the U2360° Bout are staggering: a 170-ton date appropriately dubbed "the spaceship," 200 trucks carriage it around, 250 speakers, about 400 advisers and $750,000 a day in overhead. But the band's amphitheater appearance is added than a absurd comedy - it's the better bedrock bout of all time, and Rolling Stone is onstage and backstage with U2's Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. as they accomplish history in our new issue, on stands today. Read the abounding awning adventure here.
U2 Photos: Three Decades of the World's Better Band, Onstage and Backstage
Sales for U2's latest album, No Line on the Horizon, may not bout their better blockbusters, but the aggregation are out to "engage and try and do something different," as Edge puts it, as able-bodied as prove their new actual can angle up next to the classics. "I airing out and sing 'Breathe' every night to a lot of humans who don't apperceive it," Bono tells RS' Brian Hiatt of the No Line appearance opener in our awning story. "I'm a aerialist - I'm not traveling to adhere on to a song that doesn't acquaint and add up to something. They're abundant songs live, and I anticipate it's a abundant album." But three-fourths of U2 (save the Edge) anticipate "Get On Your Boots" was the amiss aces for a aboriginal single.
U2 Reside in Italy: David Fricke Reports
Read the abounding adventure in our new affair to go abaft the scenes as U2 basic for their opening-night appearance in Chicago, tweaking "Your Blue Room" from the band's 1995 accord with Brian Eno; and accompany them in Croatia as the Edge generates new furnishings presets on the fly and the bandage reflects on the acceptation of assuming in the already war-torn nation for the aboriginal time back 1997.
As Rolling Stone tags forth in a clandestine jet en avenue to Chicago, Bono aswell meditates on what it agency to be a bedrock brilliant in 2009, praising Jay-Z as "a pioneer" who's absorbed in a "porous culture, area there's abundant added crosstown traffic." He adds, "In this age of celebrity and pop stardom, maybe it's a alive affair to catechism the ethics of getting a pop star. Radiohead, Pearl Jam, a lot of people, who maybe had added faculty than us, alone it. But the affair that's suffered from that attitude was that precious, authentic thing, what they acclimated to alarm the 45."
Also in this issue: Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's naked swindle, Q&A with "Demon Dog" columnist James Ellroy, Muse yield America, Rob Sheffield on Fringe and abundant more.
More U2:
• U2, Reside From Outer Space: Launching the Better Bout of All Time
• Video: Watch U2 Basic For 360 Opener in Chicago
• U2 in Their Own Words: Bono and Co. on the band's lifespan, their aborted Rick Rubin sessions and the bequest of 'Pop'
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