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...BANDS OF SUMMER BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN -- GENESIS -- GRATEFUL DEAD -- BONO OF U2 -- ERIC CLAPTON & ELTON JOHN -- METALLICA & AXL ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES -- HAMMER & HIS ENTOURAGE -- LOLLAPALOOZA '92 WITH RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS -- ICE CUBE -- THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN -- PEARL JAM & MORE Touring shows are booming again, as superstars hit the road with performances in which the sounds are enhanced -- and sometimes swamped -- by high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects and gimmicks, from floating autos to body piercing...
Like high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects. The Irish band U2, which used to pride itself on its spartan, no-glitz performance style, has invested $2.5 million in an extravaganza it calls the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, to be unveiled when the group begins a 15-city U.S. swing that will run from Aug. 11 into November. Dates are still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert...
Irish pop music is the art of the drone: the mournful monotone of Enya, U2 and Sinead O'Connor, singing elegies to the millennium. Now comes the Irish quartet CLANNAD (whose lead singer, Maire Brennan, is Enya's sister) and an album, Anam, that has all the right career moves: a duet with U2's Bono, a song from the hit movie Patriot Games. The group merits a listen. Brennan's soprano keenings, in English and Gaelic, are variously backed by cool, Sergio Mendes-style harmonies, a bluesy sax, and a guitar's banshee wailing. But in the tune Harry...
Around Dublin, Robinson is at least as big a celebrity as any U2 band member or Sinead O'Connor. Like royalty, she cannot go to a convenience store without being recognized and fussed over. In fact, the Observer has called her "the thinking man's Princess Di." There are still five years to go in her term of office and, if she wants, she can run for another seven-year stint. If she has her way -- and she is very determined -- she will leave her country better off than she found...
...band offers the listener some Spanish lyric and then translates them into easy-to-grasp English. In "She Gone" is the line: "On the sunny side of the street/en el lado soladio de tu calle." I am not sure of the intent here; maybe this is an allusion to U2's recent bilingual title: "Achtung Baby...