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U2

Irish rock band

Founded: 1976
Members / parts: Bono
, The Edge
, Adam Clayton
+2 more
Genre: alternative rock
, post-punk
, soft rock
+3 more
Label: Island Records
, Interscope Records
, Columbia Records
+1 more
Country of origin: Ireland
Formed in: Dublin

Overview

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U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976. The group comprises Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr.. Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's chiming, effects-based guitar sounds. Bono's lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal and sociopolitical themes. Popular for their live performances, the group have staged several elaborate tours over their career.

Overview

Discography

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Experience + Innocence Tour(2018)
U2 - Las Vegas 5-2018(2018)
Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way(2018)
Lights of Home(2018)
Landlady(2018)
Get Out of Your Own Way(2017)
Summer of Love(2017)
The Blackout(2017)
You're the Best Thing About Me(2017)
The Little Things That Give You Away(2017)
The Joshua Tree Tour 2017(2017)
XXX(2017)
Songs of Experience(2017)
U2 Innocence + Experience Live in Paris(2016)
Innocence + Experience: Live in Paris(2016)
Innocence + Experience Tour(2015)
Song for Someone(2015)
Every Breaking Wave(2014)
The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)(2014)
Songs of Innocence(2014)
Invisible(2014)
Ordinary Love(2013)
From the Ground Up: Edge's Picks from U2360°(2012)
U22(2012)
Duals(2011)
Artificial Horizon(2010)
Wide Awake in Europe(2010)
360° at the Rose Bowl(2010)
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight(2009)
U2 360° Tour(2009)
Magnificent(2009)
White as Snow(2009)
Winter(2009)
Cedars of Lebanon(2009)
Stand Up Comedy(2009)
Breathe(2009)
Fez – Being Born(2009)
No Line on the Horizon(2009)
Unknown Caller(2009)
No Line on the Horizon(2009)
Get On Your Boots(2009)
I Believe in Father Christmas(2009)
Medium, Rare & Remastered(2009)
Moment of Surrender(2009)
The Ballad of Ronnie Drew(2008)
Live from Paris – Hippodrome de Vincennes, Paris, 4th July 1987(2007)
Window in the Skies(2007)
Zoo TV Live(2006)
U218 Singles(2006)
One(2006)
Vertigo: Live from Milan(2006)
U218 Videos(2006)
Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago(2005)
City of Blinding Lights(2005)
Vertigo Tour(2005)
All Because of You(2005)
Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own(2005)
Vertigo - Live From Chicago(2005)
U2.COMmunication(2005)
Live from Under the Brooklyn Bridge(2004)
Unreleased & Rare(2004)
One Step Closer(2004)
The Complete U2(2004)
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb(2004)
Vertigo(2004)
Yahweh(2004)
Fast Cars(2004)
In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa(2004)
Love And Peace Or Else(2004)
A Man and a Woman(2004)
Live from the Point Depot(2004)
Take Me to the Clouds Above(2004)
Miracle Drug(2004)
Original of the Species(2004)
U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland(2003)
Exclusive(2003)
The Hands That Built America(2002)
The Best of 1990–2000(2002)
Electrical Storm(2002)
7(2002)
The Best of 1990-2000(2002)
Walk On(2001)
Elevation(2001)
Elevation Tour(2001)
Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of(2001)
Peace on Earth(2000)
When I Look at the World(2000)
New York(2000)
Wild Honey(2000)
In a Little While(2000)
Kite(2000)
All That You Can't Leave Behind(2000)
Beautiful Day(2000)
The Ground Beneath Her Feet(2000)
Classic Albums: U2 - The Joshua Tree(2000)
Grace(2000)
Hasta la Vista Baby!(2000)
The Million Dollar Hotel(2000)
The Best of 1980-1990(1999)
B'sides(1999)
The Best Of 1980-1990 & B-Sides(1998)
The Best of 1980–1990(1998)
Sweetest Thing(1998)
If God Will Send His Angels(1997)
Please(1997)
U2 concert in Sarajevo(1997)
Please: PopHeart Live EP(1997)
Last Night on Earth(1997)
PopMart Tour(1997)
Staring at the Sun(1997)
Pop(1997)
Gone(1997)
Discothèque(1997)
Wake Up Dead Man(1997)
Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad(1997)
Do You Feel Loved(1997)
Miami(1997)
If You Wear That Velvet Dress(1997)
The Playboy Mansion(1997)
Mofo(1997)
Slug(1995)
Your Blue Room(1995)
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me(1995)
Melon: Remixes for Propaganda(1995)
Zoo TV: Live from Sydney(1994)
Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car(1993)
Zooropa(1993)
The First Time(1993)
Some Days Are Better Than Others(1993)
Babyface(1993)
Dirty Day(1993)
The Wanderer(1993)
Zooropa(1993)
Lemon(1993)
Numb(1993)
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)(1993)
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses(1992)
Even Better Than the Real Thing(1992)
Zoo TV Tour(1992)
One(1992)
Until the End of the World(1991)
Achtung Baby(1991)
Mysterious Ways(1991)
The Fly(1991)
So Cruel(1991)
Acrobat(1991)
Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World(1991)
Love Is Blindness(1991)
Zoo Station(1991)
Ultra Violet (Light My Way)(1991)
Lovetown Tour(1989)
All I Want Is You / Unchained Melody(1989)
All I Want Is You(1989)
When Love Comes to Town(1989)
Angel of Harlem(1988)
Hawkmoon 269(1988)
Heartland(1988)
God Part II(1988)
Rattle and Hum(1988)
Desire(1988)
One Tree Hill(1988)
Silver and Gold(1988)
Van Diemen's Land(1988)
U2: Rattle and Hum(1988)
In God's Country(1987)
Where the Streets Have No Name(1987)
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For(1987)
The Joshua Tree Tour(1987)
With or Without You(1987)
Trip Through Your Wires(1987)
The Joshua Tree(1987)
Mothers of the Disappeared(1987)
Exit(1987)
Red Hill Mining Town(1987)
Bullet the Blue Sky(1987)
Running to Stand Still(1987)
Wide Awake in America(1985)
The Unforgettable Fire / A Sort of Homecoming(1985)
The Unforgettable Fire(1985)
The Unforgettable Fire Collection(1985)
Elvis Presley and America(1984)
4th of July(1984)
MLK(1984)
The Unforgettable Fire(1984)
Pride (In the Name of Love) / Boomerang II (Vocal)(1984)
Pride (In the Name of Love)(1984)
Pride (In the Name of Love)(1984)
The Unforgettable Fire Tour(1984)
Promenade(1984)
Wire(1984)
A Sort of Homecoming(1984)
U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky(1984)
The Unforgettable Fire(1984)
Bad(1984)
Under a Blood Red Sky(1983)
»40« (How Long) / Two Hearts Beat as One(1983)
"40" / Two Hearts Beat as One(1983)
Sunday Bloody Sunday(1983)
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Endless Deep(1983)
Sunday Bloody Sunday(1983)
Two Hearts Beat as One / Endless Deep(1983)
Two Hearts Beat as One / Endless Deep(1983)
Red Light(1983)
War(1983)
Seconds(1983)
Endless Deep(1983)
Sunday Bloody Sunday(1983)
Under a Blood Red Sky: Live at Red Rocks(1983)
Surrender(1983)
Drowning Man(1983)
Like a Song...(1983)
40(1983)
Two Hearts Beat as One(1983)
War Tour(1982)
A Celebration(1982)
New Year's Day(1982)
Is That All?(1981)
Stranger in a Strange Land(1981)
Scarlet(1981)
With a Shout (Jerusalem)(1981)
I Threw a Brick Through a Window(1981)
Rejoice(1981)
I Fall Down(1981)
October(1981)
Gloria(1981)
October Tour(1981)
Fire(1981)
Tomorrow(1981)
October(1981)
I Will Follow(1980)
The Electric Co.(1980)
Boy(1980)
Boy Tour(1980)
A Day Without Me(1980)
11 O'Clock Tick Tock Tour(1980)
11 O'Clock Tick Tock(1980)
Another Day(1980)
An Cat Dubh(1980)
Into the Heart(1980)
Shadows and Tall Trees(1980)
The Ocean(1980)
An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart(1980)
Twilight(1980)
U2-3 Tour(1979)
Three(1979)
Stories for Boys(1979)
Out of Control(1979)
Another Time, Another Place(1958)
Atomic City
Twilight
Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
Endless Deep
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday
A Sort of Homecoming
The Unforgettable Fire
Two Hearts Beat as One
"40"
All Along the Watchtower
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Pride (In the Name of Love)
Unchained Melody
All I Want Is You
Kite
Invisible
Street of Dreams
American Obituary
Cedars of Lebanon
Stand Up Comedy
Get On Your Boots
White as Snow
Fez – Being Born
Moment of Surrender
Magnificent
I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight
Unknown Caller
No Line on the Horizon
Breathe
Happiness
Country Mile
Live from Boston 1981
U2 360° Tour at Carter-Finley Stadium
U2 at Soldier Field (June 3, 2017)
U2 360° Tour at Wembley Stadium
Levitate
Acrobat
This is
Iris (Hold Me Close)
Early Demos
Blow Your House Down
Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl
California
Love Rescue Me
Your Song Saved My Life
Elevation 2001: Live from Boston
PopMart: Live from Mexico City

Members

4 linked to U2 in Wikidata

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223 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Discography: U2 discography
Website: u2.com language: English
Awards: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame(2005)
Ambassador of Conscience Award(2005)
American Music Award for Artist of the Year(2002) statement is subject of: American Music Awards of 2002
Grammy Awards
BRIT Awards
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
CASBY Award
NRJ Music Award d'honneur(2017) statement is subject of: 19th annual NRJ Music Awards
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NRJ Music Award d'honneur(2005) statement is subject of: 6th annual NRJ Music Awards
MTV Europe Music Award for Global Icon subject named as: 2017 · statement is subject of: 2017 MTV Europe Music Awards
Participant in: Live Aid
Member category: Category:U2 members
Native label: U2
Start of work period: 1976
Represented by: Guy Oseary(since 2013)
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Paul McGuinness(1978–2013)
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Influenced by: Pink Floyd
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1.“Pink Floyd - Wikipedia”
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Lee Clayton
Social media followers: 3,140,000(March 30, 2025) youtube channel id: UC4gPNusMDwx2Xm-YI35AkCA
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2,910,000(March 23, 2024) youtube channel id: UC4gPNusMDwx2Xm-YI35AkCA
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2,650,000(February 17, 2023) youtube channel id: UC4gPNusMDwx2Xm-YI35AkCA
2,390,000(March 17, 2022) youtube channel id: UC4gPNusMDwx2Xm-YI35AkCA
1,597,289(February 27, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 18847632
2,160,000(July 3, 2021) youtube channel id: UC4gPNusMDwx2Xm-YI35AkCA
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1,596,907(April 24, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 18847632
Different from: U2
Has list: list of U2 concert tours
Notable work: New Year's Day
Official name: U2

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