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U2 are leaving Island Records after 27 years and are signing up with rivals Mercury, according to reports.

The BBC claims the Irish band have decided to end their long-standing relationship with Island and are set to release their Greatest Hits LP through Mercury Records on November 20.

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After 26 years and global sales of around 150 million albums, U2, arguably the world’s biggest band, have quit the record label that discovered them.

Insiders claimed yesterday that the band’s members, led by Bono, became fed up with the Island Records’ senior management’s "hands-off" approach towards them, despite their having generated hundreds of millions of pounds for the label.
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Bono has opened his heart about his father’s death and told why he’s backing a global hospice awareness day — supported by The Sun Online.
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Monday night’s New Orleans Saints game against the Atlanta Falcons was the second most-watched cable television broadcast ever, averaging nearly 15 million viewers.

That ratings success was due in no small part to an emotionally charged pre-game performance by U2 and Green Day, who took the stage at the Superdome to debut their charity single, "The Saints Are Coming" (see "Green Day, U2 Take Historic Collabo One Step Further By Re-Enacting Beatles’ Abbey Road LP Cover").
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U2’s new coffee table book - "U2 by U2" - has hit stores and last Friday the lads showed up for a bookstore signing. Some fans who got shut out from meeting the band in person, are upset that some who did make it in were simply there for the autograph’s financial value. Autographed copies of the books showed up on eBay very shortly after the event.
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U2byU2 (HarperCollins, $39.95) has 1,500-plus images and a rich band autobiography culled from 150 hours of interviews with singer Bono, guitarist The Edge, bassist Adam Clayton, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and manager Paul McGuinness.

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