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Proclaiming "Shop until it stops," U2 singer and activist Bono will join Oprah onstage today to tape Friday’s televised U.S. launch of Product RED, an effort to enlist consumers in the war on global AIDS.

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ritish rockers MUSE, Irish stars U2 and rock legends THE WHO were the big winners at the Vodafone Live Music Awards in London last night (11OCT06). Muse claimed the Vodafone Live Act Award, U2 scooped the International Live Act Award and The Who were the first recipients of The Freddie Mercury Lifetime Achievement In Live Music Award

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U2 has filed an application with the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) for the so-called U2 Tower on Dublin’s south Docklands, according to the Irish Times. The proposed 30-story building is said to consist mostly of apartments, but its top section will contain a penthouse recording studio for the group that will bring the building’s height to more than 420 feet above street level, making it taller than the next tallest building in the Irish city.

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A hard cover book that will be released Febuary 2007 that focuses on the speech that was given at the National Prayer Breakfast.

"The one thing, on which we can all agree, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums and in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. 6,500 Africans are still dying every day of a preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity, this is about Justice and Equality." –Bono

This small book, based upon the speech given by Bono at the 2006 NPB, delivers an inspiring and powerful message. Here, in Bono’s own words, is a reflection on his own faith and a challenge to people of all faiths to reach across boundaries and come together on behalf of what the Scriptures call "the least of these."

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Melbourne is set to host a free rock concert as part of the worldwide Make Poverty History campaign.

Organised by 19-year-old Dan Adams, the concert will feature performances from Eskimo Joe, Evermore, Sarah Blasko, Hilltop Hoods, Paul Kelly and John Butler Trio. Bono, who will be in town for two U2 concerts, will be asked to speak at the event, which takes place Friday November 17 at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

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.. is the title of the single disc ‘best of’ coming in just a few weeks. Featuring 16 of the band’s best known songs, ‘U218 Singles’ also includes two new tracks produced by Rick Rubin at Abbey Road Studios last month. A limited edition bonus live CD comes with it… and a DVD’s on the way too.

Still waiting to hear about the tracklisting on ‘U218 Singles’ but the bonus live CD will feature 10 songs from the Vertigo Tour stop in Milan last year while the ‘best of’ DVD is a collection of videos from ‘U218 Singles’.

The first of the two new tracks is the collaboration with Green Day on The Skids’ ‘The Saints Are Coming’, released as a single later this month.

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