U2

[Serena]

Como ha asegurado el cantante de la ya mí­tica banda irlandesa a un rotativo británico, el nuevo álbum que están grabando sorprenderá a propios y extraños, ya que su nuevo sonido tendrá influencias que caminan desde el trance al metal más duro. Todo un cambio de aires para un grupo que no ha parado de reinventarse.
Por SERGIO FIGUEIRAS /los40.com Madrid (04/12/2007)

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"Los fans sentirán la diferencia. Hay algunas influencias trance, pero tambiíén hay guitarras muy hardcore que está componiendo The Edge. Verdadero metal", declaró Bono al diario The Independient.

Tras sus últimos discos, U2 sentí­a que tení­a que renovarse y que mejor manera de hacerlo que cambiar de aires. La formación dublinesa viajó primero a Marruecos, a la ciudad de Fez, para realizar la primera de las sesiones de grabación, en la que han colaborado los clásicos productores Brian Eno y Daniel Lanois. Tras su paso por el paí­s norteafricano los irlandeses recalaron en Francia, donde realizaron las dos últimas sesiones de grabación realizadas hasta ahora.

El disco que sucederá en la larga discografí­a que atesoran Bono, The Edge y compañí­a a How to dismantle an atomic bomb no tiene todaví­a fecha definitiva para su salida a la calle, pero lo que sí­ es seguro es que traerá un aire fresco a lo publicado en los últimos años.

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMhLmOOc2A&e

I still haven't found what I'm looking for (todaví­a no he encontrado lo q estoy buscando)
I have climbed the highest mountains (he subido a las montañas más altas)
I have run through the fields (he corrido a travíés de los campos)
Only to be with you, only to be with you (sólo para estar contigo)
I have run (he corrido)
I have crawled (me he arrastrado)
I have scaled these city walls, these city walls (he escalado estos muros de la ciudad)
Only to be with you (sólo para estar contigo)
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (pero todaví­a...)
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (pero todaví­a...)
I have kissed honey lips (he besado los labios cariñosos)
Felt the healing in her finger tips it burned like fire. (Sentí­a el poder curativo a travíés de las extremidades de sus dedos, que ardí­an como el fuego)
(I was) burning inside her (ardí­a dentro de ella)
I have spoke with the tongue of angels (he hablado con la lengua de los ángeles)
I have held the hand of a devil (he agarrado la mano de un diablo)
It was warm in the night I was cold as a stone (hací­a calor por la noche pero yo estaba frí­o como una piedra)
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for
I believe in the Kingdom come then all the colours will bleed into one Bleed into one. (creo en la llegada del Reino y entonces todos los colores serán sólo uno, serán sólo uno)
But yes, I'm still running. (pero sí­, todaví­a corro)
You broke the bonds and you loosed the chains, carried the cross of my shame Oh my shame, you know I believe it. (rompiste las uniones, soltaste las cadenas, llevaste la cruz de mi vergí¼enza. Oh mi vergí¼enza. Sabes que pienso que es así­.
But I still haven't found what I'm looking for (pero…)
But I still haven't found What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found What I'm looking for
But I still haven't found What I'm looking for

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEfSnjL0pd8

See the stone set in your eyes / Ver la piedra puesta en tus ojos
See the thorn twist in your side / Ver la espina de tu parte
I wait for you / Te espero
Sleight of hand and twist of fate / Prestidigitación y cambio del destino
On a bed of nails she makes me wait / en una cama de clavos ella me hace esperar
And I wait without you / Y espero sin ti

With or without you / con o si ti
With or without you /

Through the storm, we reach the shore / A travíés de la tormenta alcanzamos la orilla
You gave it all but I want more / se lo diste todo pero yo quiero más
And I'm waiting for you / Y te estoy esperando

With or without you / con o sin ti
With or without you /
I can't live with or without you / No puedo vivir contigo o sin ti

And you give yourself away / Y te traicionas a ti mismo
And you give yourself away /
And you give, and you give / Y te..., y te...
And you give yourself away /

My hands are tied, my body is bruised / Mis manos están atadas, mi cuerpo herido
You got me with nothing to win / Me buscaste aunque no ganaras nada
And nothing else to lose / Y nada que perder

And you give yourself away / Y te traicionas a ti mismo
And you give yourself away /
And you give, and you give / Y te..., y te...
And you give yourself away /

With or without you / With or without you
I can't live / I can’t live / No síé vivir
With or without you.
With or without you / With or without you
I can't live
With or without you / With or without you.

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeQzoBrCxh8

The shackles are undone/ Se deshacen los grilletes
The bullets quit the gun/ Las balas se han parado
The heat that’s in the sun/ El calor del sol
Will keep us when there’s none/ nos preservará cuando no haya nadie
The rule has been disproved/ las normas has sido refutadas
The stone it has been moved/la piedra ha sido movida
The grave is now a groove/El sepulcro es ahora un surco

All debts are removed/ Todas las deudas han sido eliminadas

Oh can’t you see what love has done? / No puedes ver lo que el amor ha hecho?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?

What it’s done to me? /Lo que me ha hecho?

Love makes strange enemies/ el amor hace enemigos extraños
Makes love where love may please/ hace el amor donde el amor pueda satidfacer
The soul and its striptease /el alma y su desnudo
Hate brought to its knees / odio traí­do a sus rodillas
The sky over our head / el cielo sobre nuestra cabeza
We can reach it from our bed/ podemos alcanzarlo desde nuestra cama
You let me in your heart/ me dejaste en tu corazón
And out of my head, head…/ Y fuera de mi

Oh can’t you see what love has done? No puedes ver lo que el amor ha hecho?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?

What it’s done to me? Lo que me ha hecho?

Oh, oh, oh, oh…
Oh, oh, oh, oh…
Please don’t ever let me out of you/ Por favor no me dejes fuera de tí­

I’ve got no shame, oh no, oh no/ No tengo vergí¼enza

Oh can’t you see what love has done?
Oh can’t you see?
Oh can’t you see what love has done?
What it’s doing to me?/ Lo que me está haciendo?

I know I hurt you and I made you cry / síé que te hice daño y te hice llorar
Did everything but murder you and I / todo lo hecho nos mató a los dos
But love left a window in the skies / el amor dejó una ventana en el cielo
And to love I rhapsodize / Y expreso mi amor cantando
To every broken heart / hacia cada corazón roto
For every heart that cries / por cada corazón que llora
Love left a window in the skies/ el amor dejó una ventana en el cielo
And to love I rhapsodize/ Y expreso mi amor cantando

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omFdpnSu57U

The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground
But there's no room, no space to rent in this town
You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care,
The traffic is stuck and you're not moving anywhere.
You thought you’d found a friend to take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace


It's a beautiful day, the sky falls
And you feel like it's a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away


You’re on the road but you’ve got no destination
You’re in the mud, in the maze of her imagination
You love this town even if it doesn’t ring true
You’ve been all over and it’s been all over you


It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away
It's a beautiful day
Don’t let it get away


Touch me, take me to that other place
Teach me, I know I’m not a hopeless case


See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
See the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colours came out
It was a beautiful day
A beautiful day
Don’t let it get away


Touch me, take me to that other place
Reach me, I know Ií­m not a hopeless case

What you don’t have you don’t need it now
What you don’t know you can feel it somehow
What you don’t have you don’t need it now
You don’t need it now, you don’t need it now
Beautiful day

[Grisom]

U2 en wikipedia

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFM7Ty1EEvs&e

I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cos tonight
We can be as one, tonight.

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end street.
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Oh, let's go.

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart.

Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cos tonight
We can be as one, tonight.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your bloodshot eyes.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality.
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die.

The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday..

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHnHY_xQVg&e

One
Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame?
You say one love, one life, when it's one need in the night.
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it.

Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love and you want me to go without.
Well, it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.
We're one, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other... one

Have you come here for forgiveness,
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much, more than a lot
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got.
We're one, but we're not the same.
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again.

You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.

One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
One life with each other: sisters, brothers.
One life, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
One, one.

[Grisom]

El mes de marzo pasado se celebró el vigíésimo aniversario del álbum "The Joshua Tree". ílbum publicado en febrero de 1987.

Sus canciones son:

Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
With Or Without You
Bullet The Blue Sky
Running To Stand Still
Red Hill Mining Town
In God's Country
Trip Through Your Wires
One Tree Hill
Exit
Mothers of the Disappeared

Mientras que U2 se habí­a convertido en una de las bandas de rock más exitosas de los 80's, todaví­a no habí­an logrado el estrellato hasta que en primavera de 1987 lanzaron The Joshua Tree. Aclamado con buenas crí­ticas, muchos lo calificaron de obra maestra. "The Joshua Tree" se convirtió en su primer número uno en Estados Unidos y su tercer álbum en alcanzar el número uno en el Reino Unido. Con sus números uno en Amíérica, "With or Without You" y "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", The Joshua Tree y el tour que le precedió le fueron merecedores de portadas en revistas tan prestigiosas como Time.

[Grisom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2lbiS1fris&e

Don't move, Don't talk out-a time, Don't think, Don't worry, everything's just fine, Just fine, Don't grab, Don't clutch, Don't hope for too much, Don't breathe, Don't achieve, Don't grieve without leave, Don't check, just balance on the fence, Don't answer, Don't ask, Don't try and make sense, Don't whisper, Don't talk, Don't run if you can walk, Don't cheat, compete, Don't miss the one beat, Don't travel by train, Don't eat, Don't spill, Don't piss in the drain, Don't make a will, Don't fill out any forms, Don't compensate, Don't cover, Don't crawl, Don't come around late, Don't hover at the gate, Don't take it on board, Don't fall on your sword, Just play another chord, If you feel, you're getting bored, Don't change your brand, Don't listen to the band, Don't gape, Don't ape, Don't change your shape, Have another grape, Don't plead, Don't bridle, Don't shackle, Don't grind, Don't curve, Don't swerve, Don't lie, die, serve, Don't theorise, realise, polarise, Chance, dance, dismiss, apologise, Don't spy, Don't lie, Don't try, Imply , Detain , Explain, Start again, Don't triumph, Don't coax, Don't cling, Don't hoax, Don't freak, Peak, Don't leak, Don't speak, Don't project, Don't connect, Protect, Don't expect, Suggest, Don't project, Don't connect, Protect, Don't expect. Suggest, Don't struggle, Don't jerk, Don't collar, Don't work, Don't wish, Don't fish, Don't teach, Don't reach, Don't borrow, Don't break, Don't fence, Don't steal. Don't pass, Don't press, Don't try, Don't feel, Don't touch, Don't dive, Don't suffer, Don't rhyme, Don't fantasise, Don't rise, Don't lie, Don't project, Don't connect, Protect, Don't expect, Suggest, Don't project, Don't connect, Protect, Don't expect. Suggest

[Serena]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHnHY_xQVg&e

One
Is it getting better, or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame?
You say one love, one life, when it's one need in the night.
One love, we get to share it
Leaves you baby if you don't care for it.

Did I disappoint you or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love and you want me to go without.
Well, it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light.
We're one, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other... one

Have you come here for forgiveness,
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head
Did I ask too much, more than a lot
You gave me nothing, now it's all I got.
We're one, but we're not the same.
Well, we hurt each other, then we do it again.

You say love is a temple, love a higher law
Love is a temple, love the higher law.
You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.

One love, one blood, one life, you got to do what you should.
One life with each other: sisters, brothers.
One life, but we're not the same.
We get to carry each other, carry each other.
One, one.

Me gusta!!

[Serena]

In the name of love: Africa celebrates U2 es el nombre del álbum que los principales músicos africanos han grabado para rendir un sentido tributo al cantante irlandíés, que desde hace años ha ejercido una gran labor humanitaria en la zona.
Por GEMA HOSPIDO /los40.com Madrid (10/12/2007)

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Algunos de los nombres propios que forman este disco son Angelique Kidjo, la banda de hip hop African Underground All-Stars o el coro de Gospel Soweto. Un porcentaje del dinero recaudado por la venta del disco irá destinado a la lucha contra la malaria, el Sida y la tuberculosis.

El disco ha sido producido por Shawn Amos: "Habí­a muchos lazos familiares, las cadencias y los instrumentos con los que han tocado son tí­picos y genuinos africanos, ha sido increí­ble. Es un testigo de lo universal que son las canciones de U2, da igual que se toquen con diferente instrumentación".

[Serena]

DAVOS, Suiza (AFP) - Que el lí­der de la lucha contra el calentamiento del planeta Al Gore te visite en tu casa equivale a prestarte a una experiencia de culpa y autoflagelación, confesó este jueves el famoso roquero irlandíés Bono.

(Publicidad)
El lí­der del grupo U2 compartió el escenario con el ex vicepresidente estadounidense en la reunión anual de los más ricos y poderosos del mundo en la estación de esquí­ suiza de Davos, y bromeó acerca de que su amistad es una fuente constante de presiones en el frente domíéstico.

Gore "ha estado en mi casa y es como (...) bueno, aquí­ ha llegado el reciclador Al, ya saben (...) Tengo un coche lujoso, pero funciona a etanol, Al", dijo Bono.

Bono admitió que una carrera en el rock no siempre es compatible con un estilo de vida ecológico y comparó una conversación con Gore con un acto de arrepentimiento religioso. "Es como estar con un cura irlandíés. Uno empieza a confesar sus pecados", afirmó. "Padre Al, no sólo soy un contaminador sonoro, soy un contaminador sonoro, una estrella de rock empapada en diesel que viaja en jet privado", añadió.

"Voy a abandonar esta mala cosumbre. Estoy probando con el padre Al, pero el petróleo ha sido muy bueno para mí­, esos convoyes de camiones articulados, productos petroquí­micos, gel para el cabello", afirmó.

Bono y Gore viajaron a Davos para impulsar sus campañas respectivas de alivio de la pobreza y reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero

[Serena]

El nuevo proyecto discográfico de U2 va tomando forma poco a poco. La banda irlandesa trabaja desde hace unos dí­as en un estudio de Dublí­n bajo la producción de Brian Eno y Daniel Lanois, quienes aseguran a Billboard que con el material grabado se podrí­an hacer dos discos.
Por N.H. /los40.com Madrid (20/02/2008)

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De momento no existe fecha de lanzamiento para este esperadí­simo trabajo que ya ha llevado al cuarteto por Francia y Marruecos con buenos resultados. "Los fans sentirán la diferencia. Hay algunas influencias trance, pero tambiíén hay guitarras muy hardcore" explicaba Bono hace unos meses a un rotativo británico.

En las últimas semanas tanto Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton y Larry Mullen como sus productores han asegurado que están dando forma a una "pieza maestra" que "se hace prácticamente sola" y que contiene estupendas y "excitantes melodí­as y riffs".

Sin más datos acerca de tí­tulos de canciones o de su álbum, U2 aterriza en la gran pantalla con el estreno comercial de la pelí­cula U23D basada en su última gira mundial.

[Serena]

La compañí­a Live Nation ha firmado un contrato global de 12 años para administrar los artí­culos promocionales, las giras, los derechos digitales y de marca de la banda irlandesa U2. El acuerdo con uno de los mayores grupos de rock del mundo ocurre sólo cinco meses despuíés de que anunciara una sociedad integral con Madonna, que incluí­a sus codiciados derechos de grabación.
Por REUTERS / REDACCIí“N /los40.com Madrid (31/03/2008)

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Live Nation ha declarado que U2 continuará con su relación de grabación y publicidad con la discográfica Universal, una unidad del gigante de los medios francíés Vivendi. "No es una situación de vida o muerte que tengamos que estar implicados en las grabaciones", ha dicho el presidente de Live Nation, Michael Cohl, en una entrevista de Reuters. "Lo preferirí­amos, pero no siempre es posible".

Por el momento, Live Nation no ha revelado los tíérminos financieros del acuerdo con U2. Se estimaba que el contrato con Madonna, que incluí­a los derechos de grabación, estaba valorado en 120 millones de dólares (unos 76 millones de euros) durante diez años, incluido un compromiso de tres álbumes despuíés de que la artista publicara su último disco con su actual discográfica, Warner.