U2 has been a brotherhood since 1976. Through stadium sellouts, hundreds of millions of albums sold, questionable professional choices (PopMart Tour, anyone?) and expected musical squabbles, Bono, the ...

’Cause tonight, we can be as one. “Sunday Bloody Sunday” was always U2’s epistle to Ireland. The band witnessed the often violent conflicts unfolding between Irish nationalists and unionists from the ...

With “Songs of Surrender,” an album of 40 reimagined songs, and “A Sort of Homecoming,” a documentary on Disney+, the Irish band pauses to reflect. By Jon Pareles For decades, U2 refused to rest on ...

“Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” which hits stores Nov. 1, is exactly what you would expect from Bono’s memoir. The U2 showman veers from intimate to over the top, from insightful to overwrought.

The longevity of U2 makes it difficult to parse the full arc of its 43-year recording career. But it is possible to divide the group’s work roughly in half. In early 2001, touring behind the hugely ...

While I was undergoing treatment to eradicate a tumor, listening to songs from the band’s long career became its own vital form of medicine. By Theodore Kim The radiation oncology department in the ...

The Rolling Stones vs. U2. Mick vs. Bono. Keef vs. the Edge. Who is the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band? Baby boomers might argue the Stones. Gen Xers might advocate for U2. Last week, this baby ...