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A survey of 4500 people done by Autoglass, revealed that this song found on the album All That You Can’t Leave Behind, which was released in October 2000, beat We Are the Champions by Queen and Layla by Eric Clapton.

Among more recent songs, Franz Ferdinand took the lead with Take me Out, followed by Radio, sung by Robbie Williams and I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness.

The survey showed that 64.8% of the respondants listen to music when they ride in the car.

This Irish group starts their Vertigo Tour on March 28.  Tickets went on sale last Saturday, and many North American and European concerts are already sold out.

The concerts already sold out in the U.S. include Chicago, all three in Boston, two in San Diego, two in San Jose, two in Los Angeles, two in Anaheim, two in Philadelphia and the one in Denver.

For the first European concert held in Brussels on June 10, more than 55 000 tickets have already been sold.

The guitarist of the group, The Edge, is suing the newspaper Sunday World, which reported that the beginning of the Vertigo Tour was due to the guitarist’s serious illness.

The High Court of Dublin is taking two weeks to listen to the lawyers of both parties.

The U2 world tour was initially supposed to debut on March 1 in Miami.  It was delayed until March 28.

The Vertigo/2005 World Tour will start March 28 in San Diego.  The group will visit 13 other North American cities before heading to Brussels in June to debut its European tour.

The dates are as follows:

March 28 – San Diego, CA – Sports Arena

April 1 – Anaheim, CA – Arrowhead Pond
April 5 – Los Angeles, CA – Staples Center
April 9 – San Jose, CA – HP Pavilion
April 14 – Phoenix, AZ – Glendale Arena 
April 20 – Denver, CO – Pepsi Center
April 24 – Seattle, WA – Key Arena 
April 28 – Vancouver, BC – General Motors Place

May 7 & May 9th Chicago, IL – United Center 
May 14 – Philadelphia, PA – Wachovia Center
May 17 & 18 – East Rutherford, NJ – Continental Airlines Arena 
May 21 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
May 24 & 26 – Boston, MA – Fleet Center

June 10 – Brussels – King Baudouin Stadium
June 12 – Gelsenkirchen – Schalke Stadium
June 14 – Manchester – City of Manchester Stadium
June 18 – London – Twickenham Stadium
June 21 – Glasgow – Hampden Park
June 24 – Dublin – Croke Park
June 29 – Cardiff – Millenium Stadium

July 2 – Vienna – Ernst Happel Stadium
July 5 – Katowice – Slaski Stadium
July 7 – Berlin – Olympic Stadium
July 9 – Paris – Stade de France
July 11 – Zurich – Letzigrund Stadium
July 13 – Amsterdam – Arena
July 19 – Milan – San Siro
July 23 – Rome – Olympic Stadium
July 27 – Oslo – Vallehovin Stadium;
July 29 – Gothenburg – Ullevi Stadium
July 31 – Copenhagen – Parken

August 3 – Munich – Olympic Stadium
August 5 – Nice – Parc des Sports Charles Ehrmann
August 7 – Barcelona – Camp Nou
August 9 – San Sebastian – Anoeta Stadium
August 11 – Madrid – Estadio Vicente Calderon
August 14 – Lisbon – Alvalade

According to Billboard magazine, the group’s Vertigo Tour will begin March 28 in the Sports Arena in San Diego.

For the first part of the world tour the opening band will be Kings of Leon.

More information will be released Monday.

According to Billboard, the North American part of the tour will be about two months in length.  Thirty concert dates are foreseen for Europe, starting in June.  At the end of August, U2 will return to the U.S. for another thirty concerts across the country.

The average price for a ticket is approximately $90.00. 

U2 will also be doing a performance at the Grammy Awards on February 13.  They have a few nominations for their album Vertigo.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, world tour, was supposed to start on the first of March in Miami, and is being delayed due to illness that has struck one of the group’s family members.

U2 was scheduled to be on tour for 10 months, and do 114 shows.  Despite this, the group has not cancelled their appearance on the Grammy Awards, February 13, and their induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame March 14.

Before that time, the group will be releasing a new song, Sometimes You Can’t Make it On Your Own, February 7.