Banda is missing drummer Larry Mullen Jr, who is injured; promotional clip carries a Brazilian fan, residing in Rio de Janeiro
AP-O U2 returns to the stage for the first time since 2019, but without one of the members of the original quartet, as drummer Larry Mullen Jr. He’s on the casualty list.
The band hinted at their resurgence on the biggest stage possible – in a commercial that aired during the super bowl Sunday – and announced they would be playing a series of shows this fall to open the new one MSG sphere In vegas.
The shows will focus on the 1991 album, Achtung Baby.
The commercial that aired during the Super Bowl showed unidentified spheres floating above cities. One of them has a little boy who says “Achtung!” The extended clip features several fans from different cities around the world: Brazil appears with João Santos, a 32-year-old painter, who lives in a community in Rio de Janeiro and has been a U2 fan since 1999.
Due to where the band will be opening, MSG sphere, the flying balloons made sense, but the commercial was shown the same weekend that the US announced it had shot down four flying objects in the previous days and the day before other unidentified objects were seen in several countries. As a result, the images of spheres floating above cities in the commercial of U2 reached a shocking tone.
“We have to get back on stage to see the faces of the fans again,” they said. Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton in a statement on Sunday.
No other dates have been announced except vegas, although the show is unlikely to have been made for just one city. In 2017 and 2019, the band embarked on a world tour based on their album Joshua tree.
mullen he is undoubtedly the founder of the band: the four members met in his Dublin kitchen to answer an advert he had placed on a secondary school bulletin board looking for musicians. OR U2 did not detail his health problems, but a report from the Washington Post in November he said the drummer had neck and elbow problems that required surgery.
Only twice has the band taken the stage without all four members, when Clayton missed a show Australia for health reasons in 1993 and after Mullen broke his foot in a motorcycle accident in 1978, according to Bono’s book, Surrender.
Mullen will be replaced in Las Vegas by Dutch drummer Bram van den Berg.
Next month, U2 plan to release the album Songs of surrenderfeaturing re-recorded and reinvented versions of 40 songs from their back catalogue.
The edge said he was impressed with the state-of-the-art audio and video system built for MSG Sphere. “We all thought about it and decided we’d be crazy not to accept the invitation,” he said. / TRANSLATION BY RENATO PRELORENTZOU
Source: Terra
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