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Glen Hansard, winner of the Oscar for Best Original Song, has revealed that U2’s Bono sent him a text message congratulating him.

Hansard won the Oscar in Los Angeles on Sunday along with his partner Markéta Irglová for their song ‘Falling Slowly’, which appears in the movie, Once.

“What was really amazing for me was getting texts from family and friends, it was amazing beforehand, and then I got a text from Bono and I was like ‘Ah, my God, that’s just amazing,’” Hansard told Irish radio station, RTE.

- Gigwise

The music of U2 spans decades. Since its formation in the late 1970s, the band has released 11 studio albums, produced several chart-topping hits and won countless awards on its way to earning a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. People don’t refer to U2 as the biggest rock band in the world for nothing. Read the rest of this story »

It’s a beautiful day for U2 fans everywhere as their long-awaited 3D concert movie opened in theaters nationwide this past weekend, and what a great movie it was. For a much cheaper price than one would pay for a terrible ticket in the back row of some arena, fans are given a front row seat that literally puts U2 front man and longtime political activist Bono in their laps for a fraction of the cost. Read the rest of this story »

No matter how good they are, concert films always seem like films of concerts. U2 3D puts viewers at the concert.

Seamlessly blending footage from several shows during the “Vertigo” tour, U2 3D was shot primarily in South America at packed stadiums bursting with energy. Read the rest of this story »

February 25, 2008 — BONO can’t even eat in peace. When the U2 frontman tried to have a quiet dinner of pizza and wine with his wife, Ali Hewson, their kids and model Helena Christensen at Serafina Broadway in the Dream Hotel, it turned into pure chaos. “The paparazzi were hounding them and banging on the windows so much to get a shot while they were eating [that] the restaurant had to close the doors and put down the window shades,” said a source. “They still acted extremely nice, like very simple and easy people.”

- New York Post

What a Night. What a City. What a cheeky-chancer you have for Taoiseach! Bono and the normally shy other members of U2; namely The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr, and Adam Clayton, brought the U23D European Premiere to their home manor this week…

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