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...U2 The tireless rockers and advocates for the Third World made a brief stop on tour to commend French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on the debt relief France has offered poor countries and to ask France to "finish what we have started." The group is also pushing gun control in its show, with a film mocking Charlton Heston...
...tour. Attention readers and potential ticket buyers: Mick Jagger is older than George W. Bush. Do you really want to see him strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily alive. Except for Bill Wyman...
...band's first live performances since 1983. Other acts on the road include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, the Beach Boys and Bill Wyman (without the Stones) and David Gilmour (without Pink Floyd.). Still other veteran artists mix longtime favorites with new chart-topping music. Madonna, Bon Jovi and U2 have all had huge hits in recent months, and all three have huge tours this summer, with Madonna's first tour in eight years kicking off in Barcelona on June...
...That same weekend, a huge homecoming takes place in Ireland. Twenty years after a young group called U2 backed Thin Lizzy at Slane Castle, Bono and company return to the rural venue to close out the European leg of their Elevation world tour. The daylong Aug. 25 event also includes Coldplay, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and JJ72...
Bono was selected as the Class Day speaker by a class-wide poll of all the seniors. The Class Marshals were able to secure Bono with the help of Sachs, and were ultimately successful because the Boston leg of U2's American tour happened to correspond perfectly with the Class Day ceremony...