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Hear Bono’s version of ‘Dying Sailor to His Shipmates’ and read our interview with Hal Willner, producer of ‘Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys’.

 ‘Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys’ is released on August 22nd.

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Newly Released Tickets for U2’s Honolulu show at the Aloha Stadium - with Pearl Jam - will go on sale this Saturday. All the details here.
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U2 have moved part of their multi-million euro business out of the country to avail of a more generous tax system in the Netherlands.

A €250,000 cap on tax exemptions for artists in Ireland, which was brought in as part of the last Budget, has led to the Dublin rockers reconsidering where to base their business.

From June this year, the group began moving some of their business to the Netherlands, where they will pay virtually no tax on royalties.

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This isn’t the first tribute album to Leonard Cohen. It isn’t even the first one to include Nick Cave and Bono. But Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man is the one that’s garnered the most attention - chiefly because it’s also the soundtrack to an acclaimed concert documentary.

It’s also the most consistent and reverent Cohen tribute - chiefly because most of these 16 tracks feature the same band and Cohen’s own longtime backup vocalists.

Which is not to suggest the VIP guests - including Cave, The Handsome Family, Beth Orton, Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Teddy Thompson and assorted McGarrigles and Wainwrights - don’t make the songs their own. Not at all.

Martha Wainwright builds Tower of Song atop a vein of Delta blues and turns Traitor into an accordion waltz; brother Rufus gets his tango on for Everybody Knows; Cave dresses up I’m Your Man as a strip-bar bump-and-grind.

Speaking of strip bars, U2 and Cohen even do a reiteration of Tower of Song, taped in a burlesque bar.

That should make this the most popular Cohen film - for any number of reasons.

Washington, August 5(ANI): Actor Johnny Depp, who plays Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckling series "Pirates of the Caribbean", has managed to convince distinguished vocal artists including U2 singer Bono and legendary British musician Bryan Ferry, to collaborate with him on the album of sea shanties, which will appear in the final ‘Pirate’ movie.

Depp had hoped Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards would also be involved, but the rocker, who will play Depp’s father in the last film, injured himself falling from a coconut tree just before recording began.

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U2’s Aloha Stadium concert has been be rescheduled for December 9th, and fans will have a second chance at tickets.

Returned tickets from U2’s postponed April 8th concert will go on sale at 9 a.m. this Saturday. Concert organizers predict a quick sellout, especially with Pearl Jam opening the show.

Reserved seating and general admission field tickets will be available, ranging from $49.50 to $165.

You can purchase tickets from Aloha Stadium’s box office, Ticketmaster outlets, online at Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 877-750-4400.

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