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  U2's 360 Tour Easily Out-Earned Everyone in 2011

  December 21, 2011 – If you like rock music and have a pulse, chances are you saw U2's 360° Tour this past year. Bono and Co. had the biggest-grossing trek of the year, taking in slightly more than $293 million after playing to roughly 2.8 million people, according to the Hollywood Reporter. …
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  Win U2's 'Achtung Baby' Reissued Vinyl Box Set

  November 16, 2011 – SPIN celebrated our 25th anniversary last year, and released a definitive list of the 125 Best Albums of the SPIN era, from 1985-2010. Among many worthy candidates for No. 1, we chose U2's 1991 game-changer Achtung Baby to top the list. …
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• U2, 'Achtung Baby, Super Deluxe Edition' (Island/UME)

  November 1, 2011 – U2 weren't known for their ambiguity, but by 1991 they'd turned into a teenager: pissy, confused, quitting sports they were good at. …
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  Hear Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Killers Cover U2

  October 25, 2011 – Three more covers of songs from U2's 1991 pivot-into-artsiness Achtung Baby recorded for British music magazine Q's compilation commemorating the album's 20th anniversary have arrived online. …
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  Hear Garbage's First New Track Since 2007: A U2 Cover

  October 21, 2011 – When Garbage made their multiplatinum debut, U2's 1991 album Achtung Baby was only four years old. On October 31, Achtung is getting the reissue treatment, and Garbage are prepping their long-awaited fifth album for a spring 2012 release. …
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  Meet the (Now 37-Year-Old) Boy on U2's 'Boy' Cover

  October 17, 2011 – The boy pictured on the the cover of U2's iconic albums Boy and War is now 37 and, in an intriguing twist, he's become a photographer himself. So reports Yahoo's blog The Difference, which caught up with the now Dublin-based Peter Rowen for a recent interview. "Bono lived across the road and was friends with my brother," Rowen says. …
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  Hear Jack White's Howling, Bluesy U2 Cover

  October 11, 2011 – Jack White knew what he was doing when he took on "Love Is Blindness" as part of Q Magazine's 20th-anniversary tribute to U2's soon-to-be-reissued Achtung Baby. …
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  Gaga, Usher, U2 Duo to Play Clinton Tribute Show

  September 13, 2011 – The nonprofit run by former President Bill Clinton is celebrating its 10th anniversary in a big way. Lady Gaga and Usher will perform at the October 15 concert, the William J. Clinton Foundation said this morning. U2's the Edge and Bono are also set to perform as an acoustic duo at the event, which takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and will stream live via Yahoo!. …
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  Bono Denies Health Scare, Homme's Baby + More

  August 22, 2011 – Bono's rep has denied rumors that the U2 frontman suffered a health scare, after reports surfaced this weekend that he went to the hospital in Monaco for heart palpitations. His rep said the 51-year-old is in "good health" and saw a doctor for routine checkup. [Reuters] Josh Homme and Brody Dalle have announced the birth of a son. Orrin Ryder Homme was born on August 12. …
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  U2 Unveil Massive 'Achtung Baby' Boxset

  August 4, 2011 – It's the 20th anniversary of U2's landmark 1991 album Achtung Baby - and to celebrate, Bono and the boys are offering fans quite the present. On October 31, The Biggest Band On Earth will drop 20 Years of Achtung Baby, a massive boxset with six CDs and four DVDs. …
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