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Set list:

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Can’t Stand The Rain (snippet) / Elevation / Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (snippet) / Highway To Hell (snippet)
Until The End Of The World
New Year’s Day
Beautiful Day / Here Comes The Sun (snippet)
Yahweh
Walk On
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet)
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday / Rock The Casbah (snippet)
Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

Encore(s):
Zoo Station
The Fly
With Or Without You / Never Tear Us Apart (snippet) / Love Will Tear Us Apart (snippet)
The Saints Are Coming
Angel Of Harlem
Kite

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When U2 burst onto the stage in Sydney tonight, most likely opening with a brash version of Vertigo, it would be easy to assume the band are going through the motions.

After all, the Australian leg of U2’s tour is the final segment of a worldwide juggernaut that has already taken in three continents and about four million fans.

Not to mention the Australian shows were postponed in March, making it more than 18 months since the Irish supergroup first stepped onstage to perform the Vertigo shows.

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You can tell a lot about a band by how they tell their own story. This fall, R.E.M. released And I Feel Fine, a collection of songs from their early years, 1982 to 1987. The deluxe two-disc edition comes with liner notes in which R.E.M.’s four founding members relate stories of the band’s early years. As a one-time devoted fan, I devoured these 11 short pages of storytelling—a tiny window into the songs I’d spent so many hours rapturously listening to, obsessing over, and decoding.

In weighty contrast to this slim text is the just-released U2 by U2, a $40 coffee-table book that exhaustively recounts—in 352 pages of interviews—the birth, struggles, and modern-day megasuccess of U2. Now that U2 has become America’s spokesband for human dignity, it’s difficult to remember that R.E.M., the quiet Georgians with the elliptical lyrics, once competed with U2 for the title of world’s best rock band. With U2 triumphant and R.E.M. fading into near-obscurity, And I Feel Fine reminds listeners that R.E.M., not U2, made the most memorable music of the 1980s.

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Here is the setlist from Brisbane:

City Of Blinding Lights
Vertigo
Elevation / Streets Of Your Town (snippet)
Until The End Of The World
New Year’s Day
Beautiful Day
Yahweh
Walk On
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own / The Black Hills of Dakota (snippet)
Love And Peace Or Else
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Bullet The Blue Sky / When Johnny Comes Marching Home (snippet) / The Hands That Built America (snippet)
Miss Sarajevo
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
One

Encore(s):
Zoo Station
The Fly
With Or Without You / Streets Of Your Town (snippet)
The Saints Are Coming
Angel Of Harlem / Young Americans (snippet)
Kite

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Prime Minister John Howard says he’d be happy to meet U2 frontman and human rights activist Bono, but seems a bit confused about who he is.

The Irish rock star, whose band opens its Australian tour in Brisbane, says he wants to talk to Mr Howard about boosting Australia’s aid to poor countries.

He said wealthy countries should donate more of their GDP (gross domestic product) to help combat global poverty, particularly in Africa.

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U2 lived up to their billing as the world’s greatest rock band tonight in a triumphant return to Australia.

The Irish supergroup blasted more than 45,000 Brisbane fans with a stunning display of stadium rock in their first Australian performance since early 1998.

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