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U2 Receive Humanitarian Honor in Portugal Sun Aug 14

LISBON, Portugal - Members of U2 received Portugal's Order of Liberty, one of the country's highest honors, on Sunday in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes over the past 25 years.

President Jorge Sampaio presented the medals to vocalist Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. in a formal ceremony at the presidential palace before the band's concert in the Portugese capital.

U2's activism during their career include work with Amnesty International and efforts to get global powers to forgive Third World debt. The band played at the Live Aid concert for Ethiopian famine relief in 1985, and was one of the key performers last month at the Live 8 concerts, aimed at pressuring the world's wealthiest nations to increase aid for Africa.

More than 50,000 people were expected to attend the concert at a soccer stadium Sunday night, the final European date on the band's "Vertigo" tour, which is in support of its most recent album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."

The band returns to North America next month, beginning with four shows in Toronto on Sept. 14. The tour wraps up Dec. 19 in Portland, Ore.

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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio delivers a speech, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005, moments before presenting the members of Irish rock band U2 with Portugal's Order of Liberty decoration, one of the country's highest honors, at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. The four band members, Bono, Larry Mullen, The Edge and Adam Clayton, from left to right, were presented with the medals in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes

Irish rock band U2 leader Bono, left, jokes with photographers while waiting with band members Larry Mullen, The Edge and Adam Clayto, from left to right, for Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio Sunday, Aug. 14 2005, at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. The four band members were presented by Sampaio with Portugal's Order of Liberty decoration, one of the country's highest honors, in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes.

Irish rock band U2 lead singer Bono, left, helps Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio pin a medal on his shirt, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005, at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. The four band members were presented with Portugal's Order of Liberty decoration, one of the country's highest honors, in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes.

Irish rock band U2 leader Bono, left, shakes hands with Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005 after being awarded with Portugal's Order of Liberty decoration, one of the country's highest honors, at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. The four band members were presented with the medals in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes

Irish rock band U2 leader Bono delivers a speech, Sunday, Aug. 14 2005, after being awarded with Portugal's Order of Liberty decoration, one of the country's highest honors, at the Belem presidential palace in Lisbon. Portugal's President Jorge Sampaio presented the four band members with the medals in recognition of their work for humanitarian causes.

Irish band U2 vocalist Bono walks as Adam Clayton (R) and Dave Evan 'the Edge' clap after the band received Portugal's Order of Liberty at Belem Palace in Lisbon August 14, 2005. U2 was awarded the Portugal's Order of Liberty by President Jorge Sampaio to honour the band's humanitarian efforts.

U2's Bono and the Edge recently penned and recorded a new track for director Wim Wenders' latest film, Don't Come Knocking. The song, also called "Don't Come Knocking," features Bono duetting with Corrs singer Andrea Corr.
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Bono has been hailed as "the most politically effective figure in the recent history of popular culture" by The New York Times.
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Выход нового концертного DVD Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago ожидается 15 ноября.

Bookmakers Say Geldof, Bono Could Win Nobel Prize

Music icons Bob Geldof and Bono are among U.K. bookmakers' tips to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct. 7), alongside more orthodox candidates like campaigners against nuclear arms and a peace broker for Indonesia.

Experts are divided about whether the secretive five-member committee would dare to broaden the scope of the $1.3 million award in 2005 to honor Geldof or the U2 lead singer, who have campaigned for years to ease hunger and poverty in Africa.

Last year, the committee won both plaudits and brickbats for awarding the prize for the first time to an environmentalist, Kenya's Wangari Maathai, for leading a campaign to plant millions of trees across Africa.

After that mixed reception, guardians of what many view as the world's highest accolade may be reluctant to be innovative a second time. A total of 199 candidates have been nominated for the 2005 award, which can be split up to three ways.

"If the prize branches out to virtually anything that is trendy, it stands to lose the intent that [Swedish founder] Alfred Nobel had -- to prevent war," said Janne Haaland Matlary, a professor of political science at Oslo University. "I think there are two acute problems in the world -- anti-terror work and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

On the 60th year of the 1945 U.S. nuclear bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she and many experts say an obvious option is to honor efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

Still, Bono and Geldof have risen from 66-1 to be third joint favorites at 7-1 on an Australian bookmakers' ranking in recent days after Stein Toennesson, a leading Norwegian prize commentator, placed them among his favorites.

"If the committee wants to go further this year in widening its interpretation of peace, the prize could go to Bono or Geldof," said Toennesson, head of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo.

Top of the bookmakers' ranking is former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, at 4-1, for brokering a peace deal between Indonesia and Aceh rebels this year to end a three-decade conflict in which 15,000 people have died. Then come U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and former Senator Sam Nunn, on 6.5-1, for their work to dismantle aging nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union. The ranking broadly matches Toennesson's.

Others disagree.

"Since the committee went quite far and were innovative with Maathai they would want to go a little bit back to a core Nobel theme," said Espen Barth Eide, a director at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He said that his favorite was the U.N. nuclear watchdog and its head, Mohamed ElBaradei.

Candidates who campaign against nuclear arms include Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Senji Yamaguchi, a Nagasaki survivor. The 1995 and 1985 prizes also went to anti-nuclear themes. Or the committee might honor a relief group, like Save the Children or Oxfam, for work after the Indian Ocean tsunami.

In deciding the prize, a problem is the vagueness of Nobel's 1895 will. It says the prize should go to the person who has done most for "fraternity between nations," for reducing armies or for holding peace congresses.

But the committee may be open to new ideas. The head of the committee, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, was instrumental in persuading ex-South African President Nelson Mandela to visit the Arctic city of Tromsoe in June for an anti-AIDS rock concert.

If the iconic Mandela sees rock music as a way of spreading the word about AIDS, why can't the Norwegian Nobel Committee follow suit with peace? "No comment," Mjoes said, adding: "We always use the will as our basis and have a holistic approach."

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Боныч пролетел с Нобелевкой. А получит ее генеральный директор МАГАТЭ, г-н Мохаммед Эль-Барадей, с которым я имел удовольствие беседовать только вчера.

2Primal Scream:

>Боныч пролетел с Нобелевкой.

Ничего, пускай поскачет, леса поспасает, долги пусть посписывает, музыка новая все равно никакая, а в его интервью по выходу нового альбома не рассказ "как мы это делали", а занудная лекция, что не все еще негры счастливы и давайте подарим им еще полмиллиарда, нам не жалко. Вы простите, но меня от этого либерализма просто мутит!

Нобелевка, нобелевкой, а концерты одни из лучших, конечно до Роллингов недотягиваю, пенсионеры до сих пор лучше всех, но на второе место явно главный претендент. Только с концерта, ещё уши заложены… море энергии зал просто обезумевший, здесь в Нью-Йорке вообще дикий ажиотаж вокруг концертов пожалуй сейчас это самая актуальная группа, увы у Стоунз возраст поклонников близок к возрасту музыкантов, а на U2 идет много молодежи.

Так мечтала попасть на их концерт в Цюрихе, какое там, билеты раскупили за полчаса после выпуска их в продажу!!! За полгода до самого концерта!!! И всё-таки - то ли возраст сказывается, то ли порох в пороховницах иссяк. Последние альбомы не заряжают, хотя бы так, как альбом "Pop".

В понедельник на концерте в Филадельфии на сцену вышли Брюс Спрингстин и его жена Патти и спели с U2 "People Get Ready" Кертиса Мэйфилда (гм).

While in town for a two-night stint at Washington, D.C.'s MCI Center on October 19th and 20th, U2 frontman BONO had lunch with President Bush on Wednesday to follow up on discussions they had in July at the G8 Summit in Scotland.

U2 2005 Vertigo - Live From Chicago (2005 DVD - Directed by Hamish Hamilton during their live performance at the United Center in Chicago on the 9th & 10th May 2005 bringing hits from 'HTBAAB' including 'City Of Blinding Lights', 'Vertigo' & 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own together with live favourites 'Beautiful Day', 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', 'Pride [In the Name Of Love]' & 'Where The Streets Have No Name' plus the rarely played 'Electric Co.', 'An Cat Dubh' & set closer '40')
released 14 November 2005

Tracklisting:
1. City Of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Elevation
4. Cry/Electric Co.
5. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
6. Beautiful Day
7. New Year's Day
8. Miracle Drug
9. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
10. Love And Peace Or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Bullet The Blue Sky
13. Running To Stand Still
14. Pride (In the Name Of Love)
15. Where The Streets Have No Name
16. One
17. Zoo Station
18. The Fly
19. Mysterious Ways
20. All Because Of You
21. Original Of The Species
22. Yahweh
23. 40

Deluxe Edition
+ DVD 2 - BONUS FEATURES:
* Beyond The Tour - An intimate behind the scenes documentary
* Startling 'Surveillance Cuts' of the Chicago show - Filmed using four remotely controlled black and white infra-red surveillance cameras, the footage offers a totally different perspective on the show.

Более крупный ракурс Орального кабинета.

2Greena:

>Так мечтала попасть на их концерт в Цюрихе, какое
>там, билеты раскупили за полчаса после выпуска
>их в продажу!!!

Насчет билетов могу дать один совет, тот факт, что все билеты объявлены проданными не означает, что их не будет в продаже в день концерта. Такая ситуация возникает по той простой причине что основная часть билетов не покупается а резервируется с условием выкупа накануне концерта, и обычно приличное число людей в итоге отказывается от билетов и за несколько часов до концерта билеты возвращаются в продажу в кассы зала. Именно таким образом я обычно и покупаю билеты заграницей, например в последнюю поездку в штаты у меня на руках не было ни одного билета, но при этом я посетил два концерта Стоун, два концерта U2 и концерт Маккартни, то есть самые ажиотажные концерты, при этом определенные проблемы были только с билетами на U2, пришлось более часа стоять за ними в очереди. Советую это учитывать при покупке билетов за границей, а не переплачивать вдвое в Интернет магазинах, при этом на концерты в Америке я вообще не очень советую покупать билеты через Интернет, там очень хорошо поставлен процесс изготовления поддельных билетов, легко можно потерять приличную сумму.

2Bog:

>Насчет билетов могу дать один совет, тот факт,
>что все билеты объявлены проданными не означает,
>что их не будет в продаже в день концерта. Такая
>ситуация возникает по той простой причине что
>основная часть билетов не покупается а резервируется
>с условием выкупа накануне концерта, и обычно
>приличное число людей в итоге отказывается от
>билетов и за несколько часов до концерта билеты
>возвращаются в продажу в кассы зала.

Дык, такое дальнее зарубежье мне в ближайший год не предвидится, хотя кто знает. Может, сами наконец-то осчастливят златоглавый град.

U2 The U2 Phenomenon (2005 DVD, this documentary is the ultimate critical review of the music of U2, presented by Mary Ann Hobbs and including contributions from band biographer and Zoo TV DJ PJ Fallon, this DVD draws on rare live footage and television archives, featured tracks include 'Stories For Boys' 'Out Of Control', 'Gloria', 'I Will Follow' and 'Elevation'. Running time - 91 minutes).