"October" tour - october 23, 1981 / Brussels, Belgium. Ancienne Belgique. Main Set: unknown
"The Unforgettable Fire" tour - october 23, 1984 - U2 perform in Nantes, France at Saint Herblain Hospatlier. "MLK" is put back into the set list, and is played after "Wire". Still, the crowd doesn't seem overly responsive to the song. In a Melody Maker interview, Adam Clayton is asked about touring: "There's an awful lot of people all around the world that want to see us, and why should we just end up playing for London and New York who see everyone who comes through? I like to be able to tour in other places. It's not always fun, it's not always together, but you have to accept that as part of the problems of going to these places." Support is "Big Audio Dynamite".
"The Joshua Tree" tour - october 23, 1987 - U2 perform in Lexington, Kentucky at the Rupp Arena. During "Pride(In the Name of Love)" Bono vocalizes his feelings about scalpers, "If there's any scalpers in this building, they are NOT welcome. We decide what a U2 concert is worth!" "40" is not performed on this night, and the show ends with "With Or Without You" with Bono singing 'how long to sing this song' a couple of time at the end of the song. Support is "The BoDeans".
"ATYCLB - promo" tour - october 23, 2000 / London, England - BBC Maida Vale Studio. Elevation, New York, Stuck In a Moment , Beautiful Day, She's a Mystery To Me. U2 perform and are interviewed live on BBC's Radio 1.
"Joshua tree has fallen over in California desert" - october 23, 2000 - U2 fans confirm a rumor thathad started earlier in the month -- the Joshua tree depicted on The Joshua Tree album has fallen over. The tree had become a landmark of sorts for U2 fans over the years, many of whom spent days searching through the California desert for the tree's location.Those who discovered it managed to keep the location secret in an attempt to make sure the casual fan, or U2 basher, didn't find the tree and try to damage it in some way.
U2 Singer Moves Merchandising Traffic - October 23, 2006 - Since U2 singer Bono announced the RED campaign to raise money to benefit the Global Fund to Fight AIDS on The Oprah Show, 66.3 percent of people registering to join the RED Web site clicked through to merchandise partners' Web sites, according to a metrics company techweb
RED: $5,2 billion - 363 programs - 131 countries - October 23, 2006 - "Now customers can buy the best music player in the world and do something to help the world at the same time," Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, stated in a press release. ... According to Apple, the program has raised more than $5.2 billion to donate to more than 363 programs in 131 countries.
U2.com premieres the video of "The Saints Are Coming" - October 23, 2006 - On Abbey Road, last september...U2 and Green Day to benefit Music Rising. Actually, 13.437.563 people watched the video.
CTIA and U2's The Edge Rally Global Audience to Demonstrate Enormous Potential of Mobile Video Messaging - October 23, 2007 - Campaign Will Feature Exclusive Ringtone and Video from The Edge, Delivered to Mobile Devices by Vantrix - CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment® 2007, taking place this week at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, is embarking on a common short code (CSC) campaign designed to start a mobile video revolution. CTIA attendees will receive an exclusive video and downloadable ringtone from U2's The Edge via mobile phone text messaging this morning. Music videos, song tracks and ringtones are among the most popular multimedia content sold on mobile devices today. To further demonstrate the lure, legendary musician The Edge, from the band U2, has produced an exclusive video for CTIA‘s CSC campaign. He has also recorded an exclusive ringtone that can be downloaded after watching the video and passed along to others, at no charge.
Bono and Damien Hirst - october 23, 2007:
41st show - U2 360º TOUR - 2nd leg - October 23, 2009 - Sam Boyd Stadium - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Support Act: Black Eyed Peas
Setlist: 1.Breathe / 2.Get On Your Boots / 3.Magnificent / 4.Mysterious Ways / 5.Beautiful Day / In God's Country (snippet) / 6.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For / Stand By Me (snippet) / Viva Las Vegas (snippet) / 7.Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of / 8.No Line On The Horizon / 9.Elevation / 10.In A Little While / 11.Unknown Caller / 12.Until The End Of The World / 13.The Unforgettable Fire / 14.City Of Blinding Lights / 15.Vertigo / All These Things That I've Done (snippet) / 16.I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight / Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) (snippet) / Two Tribes (snippet) / 17.Sunday Bloody Sunday / 18.MLK / 19.Walk On / You'll Never Walk Alone (snippet) - encore(s): 20.One / Amazing Grace (snippet) / 21.Where The Streets Have No Name / 22.Ultra Violet (Light My Way) / 23.With Or Without You / 24.Moment of Surrender - Songs from 7 U2 albums have been played during that show (snippets not counted): · No Line On The Horizon (7 songs) · All That You Can't Leave Behind (5 songs) · Achtung Baby (4 songs) · The Joshua Tree (3 songs) · How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (2 songs) · The Unforgettable Fire (2 songs) · War (1 songs) - The guest list is a who's who of family, statesman, and celebrities: President Bill Clinton, Bobby Shriver, Sean Penn, Paris Hilton, Larry Mullen's father, Morleigh Steinberg and Anne Acheson, etc. (Too many to name.) Terry Lawless is shown on the videoscreen as he plays during Unknown Caller. In A Little While features a new ending, with ISS astronaut Frank DeWinne speaking the final verse (on videotape). One includes the 'Hear us coming' coda. The show features a number of video and other elements that are new in the last couple weeks, including fan-submitted videos during Unknown Caller. **** 'Dream beneath the desert sky...' - 'Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky.' We were briefly In God's Country tonight, as Bono slipped in some lines from a 1987 Joshua Tree classic into a 2001 classic Beautiful Day. Pretty incredible line up of special guests at the show tonight - led by President Bill Clinton, who got quite an ovation when Bono credited him for igniting the campaign to cancel the debts of the poorest countries. Also in the house tonight rock'n'roll royalty in the persons of Chris Martin of Coldplay and Brandon Flowers of The Killers as well as Hollywood royalty with Sean Penn, Jessica Alba, Elizabeth Shue and Kate Bosworth. (And a technology and design monarch in Apple's Jonny Ive.) Audience in fine voice and looks to be some new video making its way into the set... but we won't say too much about that. After all, everyone can see it for themselves... on Sunday night. ... U2.com
Earlier, the former president (Bill Clinton) played golf at Bali Hai with guitarist The Edge of U2. ... !lvrj
October 23, 1940: was born in a small city from my estate of São Paulo, my mum...she loved U2, she sung 'With Or Without You', cause was a track of a Brazilian soap-opera named Mandala (1988). Her name...Maria Georgina: she was a huge Catholic person and she passed way: december 5, 1995; but I had enough time, with her and the ill, to show her a new song by U2, which she was considering the best of U2, this song is Miss Sarajevo. I explained her the lyrics...and she said me, that could have any relation with the Virgyn of Medjugorje....rest in peace my mum...and it's you when I look in the mirror!
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