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Collaboration between Louis Vuitton, Bono and the missus

Louis Vuitton’s Core Values ad campaign started in 2007 and highlights important values and journeys promoted by the company.

U2’s legendary lead singer, Bono, and his wife, Ali Hewson, star in Vuitton’s latest campaign.

The couple have long been vocal advocates in the fight against poverty in Africa. They created the ethical fashion line, Edun, in 2005. It is a collection of fair-trade clothing produced in Africa by Africans.

Louis Vuitton and Bono were on the same wavelength. The slogan of the new campaign is "Every Journey Begins in Africa."

The campaign was shot by famed photog Annie Leibovitz. The famous couple wore clothing from their Edun line and were photographed on the African plain.

In the ad, Ali Hewson carries a bag jointly designed by Louis Vuitton and Edun, an embossed Monogram Revelation Keepall 45 made of brown leather. Bono carries a guitar case and a waterproof Monogram Keepall travel bag.

The couple donated their appearance fee to charity, including the TechnoServe organization in Africa, the Conservation Cotton Initiative and the Chernobyl Children’s Project International.

 

 

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U2 stars in new doc

The Music of Ireland first aired on PBS in February. The first installment, Welcome Home, featured interviews and performances from U2, Pete Seeger, Sinead O’Connor and The Chieftains.

Welcome to America picks up where the first doc left off and looks at the worldwide phenomenon U2 unleashed in the 1980s. Clannad’s Moya Brennan hosts the series. She also released new material on the first doc in the series.

U2 is not the only Irish act to be featured. The second installment also highlights the career of Sinead O’Connor, The Corrs and The Cranberries. It includes interviews with Academy Award winner Glen Hansard (Once) and songwriter Damien Rice.

Series executive producer Denny Young talked about the impact of Irish artists in the music business. He revealed: "The thing that fascinates me the most is that this tiny little island of 4 million has been able to turn out [this] number of top-selling artists and influential artists."

Music of Ireland: Welcome to America will premiere this month on PBS and air into the fall.

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U2 play brand-new track in concert

U2 played a new track, Breaking Wave, on August 21 of this year at their show in Helsinki, Finland, reports Relaxnews.
 

This song, which can now be heard on the web, should be the first single from the forthcoming album, Songs of Ascent.

Earlier in August, at the first show of the European leg of the 360° Tour in Turin, Italy, U2 already had Glastonbury, North Star and Return of the Stingray Guitar, three new songs from their forthcoming album, on the setlist.

Having having played Every Breaking Wave, a slow acoustic song, U2 frontman Bono told the audience: "Nobody has heard this yet, not even us."

Bono had explained that he wanted the track on U2’s previous disc, No Line On The Horizon, which they launched in 2009, but instead, it’ll be the first single from Songs of Ascent, which will be released by the end of 2010.

 

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Jay-Z on tour with U2

The rapper Jay-Z, 41, will be part of U2’s new tour, reports Billboard.

The members of U2 hit the road earlier this month after singer Bono recovered from spine surgery to correct a herniated disc and severe tearing of the ligaments.

The Irish supergroup has decided to add dates to their 360-performance tour. Dates have been announced for the end of 2010 in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. They will also stop in Auckland, New Zealand. A source at Live Nation has also confirmed that Jay-Z will join them as a special guest.

The Australian leg of the tour kicks off with a concert on November 25, 2010 at Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland and ends on December 10 in Perth, where U2 had performed the first date of their first Australian tour 12 years ago.

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New U2 club album

The September issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interview with U2 lead singer and frontman Bono. It appears the band is making up for lost time and working on not one, not two, but four different projects.

Bono’s emergency back surgery in May forced the band to cancel their North American tour and put other projects on hold. Now he is back on his feet, fit as ever and raring to go.

U2 is working on a "club-sounding album" and also plan to release a rock album. Then there’s Songs of Ascent, a set of tracks from the recording session of 2009’s No Line on the Horizon. As if that wasn’t enough, Bono and guitarist The Edge are writing the score for the upcoming Spider-Man musical.

U2 are presently on tour in Europe. They resumed the 360° tour on August 6 in Turin, Italy. Fans camped outside the stadium there got a treat when they heard the band rehearsing an unreleased song.

 

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Bono says danke

U2’s 360° tour continued on to Germany where the band performed in Frankfurt on Tuesday (August 10). It was the first of three shows on German soil and only the third time the band has played in Frankfurt. The last show was in 1993.

During the concert, Bono thanked the German doctors who performed that recent surgery on his back. The U2 lead singer and frontman quipped: "I have been rebuilt using the best engineering in the world, German engineering. I have ‘made in Germany’ now stamped on my ass. I have never felt better. I feel like, like a Mercedes Benz."

R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe was in the audience at the show. Paying homage to this other legendary frontman, Bono sang a snippet of It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) at the end of the U2 track Vertigo.

U2 manager Paul McGuiness also revealed this week that the band is working on a new album. The band has been playing a few new songs on the 360° tour which will likely appear on the upcoming album, including Glastonbury, Return of the Stingray Guitar and North Star.

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U2 song debuts in wrong place

U2 was forced to cancel a headlining gig at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival. The band wrote a song it intended to premiere at the festival but that plan changed after Bono injured his back. The U2 frontman had to take time off to recuperate from surgery.

Bono is back on his feet again and the Irish band resumed the 360° tour last Friday (August 6). Italian fans were the first to hear the new song, Glastonbury, as U2 rehearsed last week before the show. The rehearsal was caught on tape by a fan outside the stadium in Turin and it is now all over YouTube.

Two other new songs also saw the light of day in Turin. U2 played an instrumental piece called Return of the Stingray Guitar and an acoustic ballad called North Star.

When Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis heard how "heartbroken" Bono was about having to bow out of this year’s festival, he offered U2 the opening spot next year.

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New U2 song leaks

U2 frontman Bono has recovered from emergency back surgery and the band is ready to resume its 360° tour. The first show on the schedule takes place this Friday, August 6 in Turin, Italy.

Diehard U2 fans are already camping out near the gates of Stadio Olimpico di Torino and got a pleasant surprise this week.

The band is rehearsing for its concert on Friday. A short film has surfaced on YouTube that shows fans outside the gates listening to the sounds of U2 playing in the background. NME reports that one of the songs those lucky fans get to hear is a new, previously unheard U2 track.

U2 also played Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me (the band’s 1995 single from the Batman Forever soundtrack), Get on Your Boots and Miss Sarajevo.

Click here for your chance to hear this new U2 material now posted on YouTube.

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U2 reworking old songs

The Irish band U2 are currently working with Dave Hollister to revamp at least two of their songs.

Hollister, an R&B producer and member of the band Blackstreet, is working with the quartet to rework Thanks and All I Want Is You.

It’s still a mystery what U2 and Hollister’s intentions are for these adaptations: Will they be on a new record? Are they for a remix or a soundtrack?

U2 had to stop their world tour, 360°, after Bono, the band’s frontman has undergone emergency surgery back in May.

The singer seems to be fully recovered from this intervention as the group hit the road again starting Aug. 6 in Italy.

Last year, U2’s 360° tour made $311 million in ticket sales. By resuming the tour and rescheduling concerts canceled due to Bono’s operation, the tour should garner income totaling more than $600 million, becoming the most profitable tour in the history of music, eclipsing the Rolling Stones’ Bigger Bang Tour that ran from 2005-2007.

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Money grows on the U2 tree

Forbes published its list of the top-earning musicians from June 2009 to June 2010. Irish supergroup U2 sits in first place after earning $130 million. This is despite the fact the 360-degree tour was postponed due to Bono’s bad back and subsequent surgery.

The biggest names in music filled their coffers over the past year by touring. Other popular acts on the Top 10 list include: AC/DC ($114 million), Beyoncé Knowles ($82 million), Bruce Springsteen ($68.7 million) and Britney Spears ($64 million).

The report issued by Forbes also contained a warning. It says the market is becoming oversaturated with the same acts that head out on tour but do not promote new material. As a result, it predicts a downturn is inevitable in the music industry.

The last five acts on the Forbes’ Top 10 list include: Jay-Z ($62 million), Lady Gaga ($61 million), Madonna ($58 million), Kenny Chesney ($50 million) and a tie for 10th spot between Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay ($47 million).