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latest site news Jeremy, known as haytrain here, is the latest addition to the U2start crew. Jeremy will be a crew member specialised in bootlegs, he will mainly work on maintaining our bootleg collection, making it even better, more r.. (read more)
did you know? During the recording of "The Electric Co." for Under A Blood Red Sky, Bono included a snippet of Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns". When the LP was released, U2 failed to get permission and pay the appropriate licensing and royalty fees to include that piece of Sondheim's tune on the album. When Sondheim objected, U2 agreed to pay a $50,000 (US) penalty for the unauthorized use and to press all future releases with a new version that did not include the snippet.
new fan around us The most recent fan who registered is named glrueckert, welcome to U2start glrueckert! As a new user you can introduce yourself in the Welcome to U2start y'all forum.
popular songs The song Where The Streets Have No Name is requested the most at our songs pages and therefore quite popular, according to the favorite song lists of our users the song Bad is the alltime favorite song.
fan of the month Every month we put an U2 fan in the spotlights, the fan of this month is user AllBecauseOfU2. Every fan of the month has an interview with us, you can read our interview with AllBecauseOfU2 here.
news headlines We cover the news of many international U2 websites including U2.com, the most popular headline in the last two weeks was 'Under a Blood Red Sky…' from u2wanderer.org.
statistics There are currently 4,578 topics started on the forums with over 189,402 messages.
More than 12,504 fans are a member of U2start. The average age of the U2start users is 28, only users who submitted their age are included in this figure.
high resolution photos We have 619 high resolution U2 photos available for you, the biggest photo collection you will find. The latest photo we've added is 'The Edge'.
bootleg of the month Every month we have a bootleg in the spotlights, the current one took place on 1987-07-08 in Brussels, Belgium. You can download this bootleg, read reviews or write your own review here. You can also join the discussion on this bootleg in our forums.
"The Irish poets gave me a sense for language and for the sound of language, the sense that's in the word, in the sound of the words, things like that."
- Bono
