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  • Bono Wrote This Hit for U2 as an Apology to His Wife
    UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 01: WEMBLEY STADIUM Photo of BONO and U2, Bono performing live onstage on PopMart tour, playing Gretsch 6119 Chet Atkins Tennessean guitar (Photo by Patrick Ford/Redferns)
    Behind The Song

    Bono Wrote This Hit for U2 as an Apology to His Wife

    08.16.26

    By Gayle Thompson

  • Behind The Lyrics

    The U2 Lyric That Depicts the Plight of an Ineffectual Angel

    01.22.26

    By Jim Beviglia

  • Jordan McCullough
    Photo by Disney/Eric McCandless
    Latest Music News & Stories

    “You Are So Blessed”: ‘American Idol’s Jordan McCullough Gets Emotional After Expertly Transforming a U2 Hit

    03.23.26

    By Paige Gawley

  • Bono Wrote This Hit for U2 as an Apology to His Wife
    UNITED KINGDOM – AUGUST 01: WEMBLEY STADIUM Photo of BONO and U2, Bono performing live onstage on PopMart tour, playing Gretsch 6119 Chet Atkins Tennessean guitar (Photo by Patrick Ford/Redferns)
    Features

    4 U2 Classics That Show off Their Mastery of the Slow Stuff

    08.14.26

    By Jim Beviglia

  • U2 in 1987
    Le groupe U2 à Paris en juin 1987 (Photo by Frederic GARCIA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
    Behind The Song

    This Major U2 Hit Was Almost Abandoned, Bandmates Called the Earliest Version of the Song “Difficult”

    03.22.26

    By Melanie Davis

  • Adam Clayton (far left), The Edge (second from left), Bono (second from right) and Larry Mullen, Jr. (far right) form the rock band U2. (Photo by © Aaron Rapoport/CORBIS OUTLINE/Corbis via Getty Images)
    Behind The Song

    How U2 First Broke Into the US Top 40 With a Song Paying Tribute to an American Icon

    02.27.26

    By Jim Beviglia

  • U2
    Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images
    Latest Music News & Stories

    U2 Releases a Surprise EP Filled With “Songs of Defiance and Dismay”

    02.18.26

    By Paige Gawley

  • The List

    3 Emotional Songs From 1984 That Put the Power in Power Ballads

    02.01.26

    By Thom Donovan

  • 3 Songs From 1987 That Sound Shockingly Fresh Now
    Features

    The Album That Turned Bono and U2 Into “The Political Band”

    08.03.25

    By Peter Burditt

  • U2 Had a Big Hit With This Song in 1987, Even Though Bono Says It’s Still Unfinished
    (MANDATORY CREDIT Ebet Roberts/Getty Images) UNITED STATES – JANUARY 01: Photo of U2; L-R: The Edge, Larry Mullen Jnr, Adam Clayton, Bono – posed, group shot, Joshua Tree press conference (Photo by Ebet Roberts/Redferns)
    Behind The Song

    U2 Had a Big Hit With This Song in 1987, Even Though Bono Says It’s Still Unfinished

    04.04.26

    By Gayle Thompson

  • Features

    The U2 and Rolling Stones Albums That Speak to One Another: “We Wanted To Own Up to Being Fans”

    12.13.25

    By Peter Burditt

  • On This Day in 1987, U2 Rocked the Rooftop of a Los Angeles Liquor Store While Filming a Music Video for a Hit Song
    U2 (v.l. The Edge (David Howell Evans), Bono (Paul David Hewson), Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.) on 21.07.1987 in München / Munich. (Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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    Remember When U2 Rocked the Rooftop of a Los Angeles Liquor Store While Filming a Music Video for This Hit Song?

    03.29.26

    By Matt Friedlander

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