Three songs into the endure North American date of U2's 2005 Vertigo Tour, as lights raced about the egg-shaped date and the bandage ripped into an absorbing yield on "Elevation," hundreds in the Portland, Oregon, army captivated up bootleg signs that apprehend "Thank You." Leaning into a army of adolescent fans, Bono asked how abounding of the shows they had seen. "Twenty-four," said one. "Forty-two," replied another. The animated frontman beamed. "We've got affectionate of an Oprah affair traveling on here," he said.
Last year, U2 awash out anniversary of their 118 shows worldwide, played afore added than 3 actor admirers and becoming added than $260 million, authoritative the Vertigo Bout the year's second-biggest, abaft the Rolling Stones. By the time U2 accomplished Portland on December 19th, the bandage had played eighty-two North American dates. Admirers and critics rated them a part of the group's best ever, with all-embracing set lists featuring aboriginal advance like "Electric Co." and "The Ocean," and appropriate guests, including Eddie Vedder and Bruce Springsteen.
In February, the bandage will barrage Vertigo's final leg, which includes dates in Mexico, Argentina, New Zealand and Australia. "The acknowledgment to the shows has been unprecedented," says the Edge. "From a absolutely abundant start, it's just congenital and congenital and built. I'm blessed to say bye-bye, because I don't anticipate we could anytime top it."
In the advance of the tour, Bono - who was called a Person of the Year by Time - begin time to accommodated with President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. U2 shows chip Bono's politics, auspicious admirers to assurance up for his ONE attack to end all-around poverty, and the accompanist aswell helped adapt endure summer's Live 8 concerts.
"Bono's efforts accept developed out of the band's political awareness," says the Edge, who in the deathwatch of Hurricane Katrina assisted in the barrage of Music Rising, an action to advice New Orleans musicians clean their lives. "But Bono has taken it to addition level. It doesn't beggarly I accede with everything, but I do adulation the actuality that it's like a new paradigm, a altered blueprint altogether."
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