U2NEWS: October 18 1998 Part I


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Releases:

Single: New version of "The Sweetest Thing" October 19, 1998(UK),
October 20, 1998(Canada)

Omagh Tribute Album[official title TBA]: November, 1998

CONFIRMED: "U2 PopMart - Live From Mexico" VHS November 3, 1998
NA, November 2, 1998 EUR.

Release of Zucchero album called "Blue Sugar" with a collaboration
with Bono on the song "Blue", November 5, 1998(EUR only?)

Also, from Oli G, who in the past has been extremely reliable with his
information. The tracklist of this video will be:

1*POP MUZIK 2*MOFO 3* I WILL FOLLOW 4*GONE 5*EVEN BETTER THAN
THE REAL THING 6*LAST NIGHT ON EARTH 7*UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
8* NEW YEAR'S DAY 9*PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) 10*I STILL HAVEN'T
FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR 11*ALL I WANT IS YOU 12*DESIRE
13*STARING AT THE SUN 14*SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY 15*BULLET THE
BLUE SKY 16*PLEASE 17*WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME
18*DISCOTHEQUE 19*IF YOU WEAR THAT VELVET DRESS 20*WITH OR
WITHOUT YOU 21*HOLD ME, THRILL ME, KISS ME, KILL ME 22*MYSTERIOUS
WAYS 23*ONE 24*WAKE UP DEAD MAN

This is the actual press release for the B-side tracklisting from CNN:

PRNewswire
21-SEP-98
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/-- Island Records announced today the
final track listing of the special B-Sides CD which will be included in
a limited edition version of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, due out for
release on Tuesday, November 3.
The B-sides track listing is as follows:

    * The Three Sunrises
    * Spanish Eyes
    * Sweetest Thing (original version)
    * Love Comes Tumbling
    * Bass Trap
    * Dancing Barefoot
    * Everlasting Love
    * Unchained Melody
    * Walk To The Water
    * Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)
    * Hallelujah Here She Comes
    * Silver And Gold
    * Endless Deep
    * A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel
    * Trash, Trampoline and The Party Girl

The B-sides disk will accompany a 14 track collection of some of the
band's best known material:

    * Pride (in the Name of Love)
    * New Year's Day
    * With or Without You
    * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    * Sunday Bloody Sunday
    * Bad
    * Where the Streets Have No Name
    * I Will Follow
    * The Unforgettable Fire
    * Sweetest Thing (the single mix)
    * Desire
    * When Love Comes to Town
    * Angel of Harlem
    * All I Want is You
    * One Tree Hill (Japan Release ONLY)
    * October

The two-disk set is being made available to retailers on a one time
only, limited edition basis and will be available to consumers at a
special low price on Tuesday, November 3 in the United States (Monday,
November 2 rest of world). Retailers will then be offered a regular
edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990, which will not include the B-sides
bonus CD. The regular edition of U2 The Best of 1980-1990 will be
available in stores on Tuesday, November 10 in the United States
(Monday, November 9 rest of world).
/CONTACT: John Vlautin, 212-603-3933, or Karen Wiessen, 212-603-3950,
both of Island Records, Inc./ CO: Island Records, Inc. ST: New York IN:
ENT REA SU: PDT

Concerts/Live Events:
RUMOUR:
U2 at Amnesty International's 50th anniversary of the United Nations'
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Celebration, Paris,
France, December 10, 1998.

Television/Radio Events:

ARTE(can be received via ASTRA and EUTELSAT-satellite in Europe):
will also show "The A-Z of Separating People From Their Money" on
October 18, 1993
BBC: Straight from The Edge's mouth -- The BBC are working on a
special for "Classic Albums" about the Joshua Tree. Airdate TBA
Channel V(Australian) : U2 video special, November 14, 9:30 - 11:30pm
German TV: There is a German documentation film to be shown on
October 18,1993 - a film called "The A - Z of Seperating People from
Their Money". It is "hosted" by Dennis Hopper (yet the director is
German). The film entails interviews with artist, actors, directors,
musicians. One thing is of high interest for you I guess: There is a
long interview with Bono in it, in which he talks about this thoughts
on the interplay between art and advertising. The music in this film
is by U2. This film has a total length of 170 minutes.
Network TV:
MTV:
MuchMusic/MuchUSA:
VH1: They are working on a U2 special. Airdate TBA.
POP-UP VIDEO airing "Stay" Saturday, October 10, 6:00 pm EDT
WestWood One: Will air U2 radio special on November 10, 1998

Net Events:
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Get Sweetest Thing on MTV! Vote at http://www.mtv.com and
click on TUBESCAN
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Vote for U2 at Triple J's(Australian Radio) poll at
 http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/net50/vote.htm
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U2 is featured "In the Studio" at
http://www1.rocktropolis.com/main/events/schedule.asp
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Vote for U2 at DotMusic's Top Albums of All Time (AB is #3, JT is #16)
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Vot for U2 at http://www.bradfitz.com/votingbooth?schwag402
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Fan Club/WIRE/U2 nutzoid meetings:
WIRE gathering at Alton Towers in UK, October 17, 1998
Contact : [email protected]
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18th Anniversary of U2's first performance in Canada Celebration
DEC 9th 1998. Check out http://www3.sympatico.ca/p.m_c.c/
or email [email protected] for more information.
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NEWS dates:
POP tour program designers win award added October 17
Boston Globe article added October 17
Former dictator Pinochet ARRESTED added October 17
Bono salutes Hume over RTE radio added October 16
Nobel article that mentions Bono added October 16
Bono DID NOT present the Nobel Peace Prize added October 16
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Irish Peace-Makers added October 16
The Edge set the story straight on Bono/Rushdie added October 16
The Edge presents BB King with award added October 16
Canadian Best of Numbered added October 15
3eb version of "I Will Follow" LIVE added October 15
Best of to be released on double vinyl in UK added October 15
More info on Bono/Rushdie added October 14
REM & U2 singles added October 14
Hot Press on Eno/Lanois added October 14
Rolling Stone article on "Best Of" added October 13
Raver article added October 13
Flood on PJ Harvey's "Is This Desire" added October 13
U2: POPMart Live in Mexico City cover added October 12
Polygram Merch. announces website deal added October 12
More on Rushdie in Bono's Garden added October 12
B-Sides Collection Cover added October 12
Irish Star Articles added October 12
  - Rushdie hid out at Bono's place
  - Larry Mullen to become a father again
  - Two Spices join U2 in studio
Sunday Times article added October 12
U2-NEWS poll results/change added October 11
U2-NEWS Site Glitch/Error added October 11
Sellafield contamination added October 11
U2 & Ash helping out on Omagh Tribute added October 11
U2 recording info added October 10
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Thanks to David Comay for the following:

>From Adworld:

POP Tour Programme Wins ICAD Award Adworld Website

Gold was a scarce commodity at the 1998 ICADS - the
annual best of Irish advertising and design awards
organised by the Institute of Creative Advertising &
Design. Only two of the 100 nominated entries across
a wide range of advertising and creative work warranted
the sought-after gold status, proof positive that when
creatives judge their own work, high standards are
rigourously applied.

The Gold Awards went to McConnells Advertising and
DesignWorks for a radio script (Radio- Up to 30 secs.
category) and a poster (Advertising Print Crafts
Category) respectively. McConnells Gold Bell was for a
Jacobs Fig Roll - Dustin Solo radio commercial, while
DesignWorks scored for an Abbey Theatre poster for
"The Wake".

Nine Silver Bells were awarded and here again
McConnells were to the fore with a Telecom Internet
colour press ad featuring John Rocha taking Silver. The
photographer on the ad, Trevor Hart, also won a Silver
Bell.

Two Silver Bells went to Des O'Meara & Partnership for
a B/W press magazine ad for Insectazap - "Fly" and a
98FM radio commercial - "Response".

Imagenow (Identity Programme for Irish Design
Institute); Creative Inputs (corporate brochure for ESB
Environmental Review) and Averill Brophy (Pop Tour
Programme) carried off Silver Bells for design.

In the Interactive Media category, X Communications
won a Silver Bell for The Chogonka Scroll.
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Condensed from the Boston Globe:

Last May, after he held aloft the hands of John Hume and David Trimble
during a Belfast concert to support the political settlement in Northern
Ireland, U2 lead singer Bono stood off to the side of the stage and
regarded the two politicians with a wide grin.

''Those boys,'' he mused, indicating Hume and Trimble with his thumb,
''should win the Nobel Prize.''

Bono got his wish yesterday when Hume, the visionary Catholic pacifist
who
was the prime architect of the peace process, and Trimble, the one-time
hard-liner who led a wary Protestant community to compromise with Irish
nationalists, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has been
arrested in London, England.

You can read about it at: http://www.cnn.com.

Some of you might know that Bono gave an extremely impassioned
speech at the Santiago, Chile concert about the "Mothers of the
Disappeared" and requested that Pinochet tell them where "The
Disappeared" were...
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Condensed from Zoonation:

BONO SALUTES NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER
By Dan McGinn for ZooNation.com

U2 lead singer Bono tonight paid generous tribute to Northern Irish
nationalist leader, human rights campaigner and tireless advocate of
peace in Ireland, John Hume who was announced along with Ulster
Unionist leader David Trimble as the 1998 winners of the Nobel Peace
Prize.

Speaking on Ireland's premier chat show `The Late Late Show' on RTE
elevision, Bono paid tribute to the Derryman who was being interviewed
on the Dublin chat show by Gay Byrne, claiming Hume had "the heart of a
poet - not a politician".

"I tend to think John as being more like a poet. He has the heart of
a poet - not a politician.

"He has the real ability to look at a situation not in the face but in
the heart. He gets to the heart of the problem.

"You know, I remember him being in our kitchen at home talking about
how the only way to solve the conflict in this island was to tackle
the problem of our divided people".

Speaking by phone from a recording studio in Dublin where he
was watching Hume being interviewed, Bono extended
U2's congratulations to the nationalist leader and his fellow
Nobel prizewinner and advocate of peace in Northern
Ireland, First Minister David Trimble.

A clearly emotional Hume thanked Bono as the U2 lead singer
affectionately recalled how the band had "played support to
John and David Trimble" in Belfast at a peace rally during the
May referendum on the historic Good Friday Peace Accord.

Fellow Nobel laureate, the winner of the 1995 prize for
literature, Seamus Heaney (who like Hume attended St Columb's
College in Derry as a teenager) also paid tribute to the SDLP
leader agreeing with Bono that John Hume had the heart
of a poet.

"You know Bono is right about him having the heart of a poet.
He has shaped a new language in politics in Northern Ireland,"
the award winning Irish poet told the Late Late Show audience
by phone from Harvard.

Hume was celarly moved when a fellow architect of the Irish
peace process, Gerry Adams rang from Media in Delaware to
congratulate him on the show.

The Sinn Fein leader, who was also rumoured to be in line for
the Nobel award for persuading the IRA to lay down its
weapons and enter the democratic process but was not cited
by the Norwegian committee for the peace prize, told his
former political rival that this was an enodrsement of his tireless
efforts for peace in Ireland.
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Condensed from CNN:

Trimble, Hume Share Nobel Prize and Stake in Belfast Agreement
AP 16-OCT-98

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- David Trimble and John Hume
have little in common besides a commitment to making April's
peace agreement for Northern Ireland work -- and now, of course,
the Nobel Peace Prize.

Though their own personal relationship is frosty and formal at
best, Hume and Trimble pulled off a pleasing double act during
May's campaign to win public ratification of the peace accord.
Their improbable appearance in business shirts and ties beside
U2 singer Bono provided the emotional highlight for their
successful "say yes" campaign, which achieved 71 percent
support.

(Prarit's note: The article continues on with histories of Hume and
Trimble.)

-- 
Prarit....

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