50 years ago, Elvis taped a live show for NBC dubbed Elvis. However, it is better known by hardcore fans as the ’68 Comeback Special. What made this an “television event of the 60’s” is that the 33 year old singer had not been in front of a live audience for al

Last Tuesday morning, I went down to our basement to grab my cyclocross bike and ride to my office. Commuting to work on a bike is my heaven. It’s a way for me to get into the day and ready myself for whatever will cross my desk in the course of a day, but on this morning, I wou

A few days ago, someone posted a Tweet about U2 covering The Stranglers. It piqued my interest as I have been a fan of The Stranglers since their rise in the punk world in the 70s. At the time, I was living outside of London, in Reading, while my parents were on sabbatical leave from

You really do not need to impress me. Seriously, I have no time for what your did in you life. Unless, it came to a bountiful result that helped others. It’s a harsh opening statement to this blog, but it’s one that has stuck with me for a few months due to an incident ear

While U2 fans around the world are waiting, with the utmost patience for a new full-length album release, the band gave us a soundtrack single, recorded for the movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The song I am speaking of, Ordinary Love, has been floating around the Internet for the

It’s a day after Thanksgiving and time with family this year has allowed me to reflect on my life of recent. As I am reminded all too often that my mother is very ill, I take solace in the fact that three years ago this week I planted my literary foot into the ground and began to see

On the opening night of U2’s 360 tour in America, there I was, in the pit and feet from the stage. It seemed like a long journey to get this close to my band in a live setting. Yes, I had met them on the streets and have a lot of autographs to prove such, but twenty-two years earlier,

I moved to Chicago some 23 years ago for a few reasons. One was the better opportunity to catch a U2 show. I knew that their coming to Iowa City on the Joshua Tree tour, when I was in college, was a fluke and that they would not really see the likes of Iowa again as a place of visit o

Peter Rowen is the iconic boy on the cover of U2’s War album. He is the younger brother of Bono’s good friend Guggi and is the only non-U2 subject to grace the covers of their records, which makes for an interesting discussion about album covers. What is it that makes an album great?