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We're back with a new episode of the U2start podcast. Episode 31 is all about Days of Ash: the songs, the lyrics, the themes, the band members, and of course future rumors and plans, now available on your favorite podcast app or on u2start.com/podcast

Our website visitors find The Tears of Things to be their favorite Days of Ash song. What is your favorite song a few weeks in? Vote along: u2start.com

Released 21 years ago today: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Favorite song? 🎵

Your Song Saved My Life, for which a video was released 4 years ago, is one of those non-album songs. What is your favorite non-album U2 song? youtube.com/watch?v=kfGRZe…

"It's an extraordinary thing to be in front of 50,000 people and have your mind blown. That's what Zoo TV did to me every night, just completely turned me over. And I couldn't believe we got away with it." - Bono, 1997

Released 25 years ago today: All That You Can't Leave Behind. How does this album rank for you?

"If a record doesn’t give us a reason to leave home, then what’s the point? Touring costs miles, marriages, muscle—so the songs have to pay the fare." - Bono, 2025

"Ask me why I’m a singer and I’ll say I’m filling the hole left when my mother died. As a child it felt like abandonment, and every lyric is me refusing to feel abandoned again." - Bono, 2025

33 years ago, Zoo TV hit Philadelphia. The first year of the tour with the shows taking shape. What is your favorite Zoo TV leg? Indoor, outdoor? Zooropa, Zoomerang?

7 years ago today: Experience tour hits Europe with a great show in Berlin. With the tour debuts of Even Better Than the Real Thing and Summer of Love. Let us know if you were present!

32 years ago today U2 played one of their most iconic shows: RDS Dublin. With stand-out performances of Ultra Violet and Bullet The Blue Sky. Download here: u2start.com/shows/1056#!au…

"Jimmy Iovine once told me, ‘I’ve got just enough low self-esteem to get me where I want to go,’ and I pinched the line for ‘The Showman.’ Insecurity, paradoxically, is the best security a performer can have—it keeps the motor running." - Bono, 2025

"Bono's journey really meant something, it carried the emotion of the day to people. So his performer's instinct was right. Again" - Adam on Bono's Live Aid performance 📷 taken 40 years ago today at Live Aid

"I hope they’re still there for us. We’ve stretched their elastic limits over the years, and it’s been a long spell away, but I still think we can soundtrack people who want to take on the world." - Bono on fans, May 2025

"Could we turn up somewhere unexpected? Yes. But announcing a big tour, you can’t do more mega…you can’t do a more sci-fi extravaganza than Sphere. So we have to figure out a new way of being on the road and meeting our audience and all of that." - Bono, June 2025

Podcast episode #30 - From U2:UV to Sorrento So much has happened in the U2 world since our last episode. We're back to take it all in. We also talk about future new music and share our thoughts on the Stories of Surrender Apple TV film. Listen: u2start.com/podcast

"It was difficult being away so I'm thrilled to be back in a creative environment, even if I'm not 100% there and I've got some bits falling off. It's just the most extraordinary thing. When I was away from the band, I missed it, but I didn't realise how much." - Larry, May 2025

Now that Stories of Surrender is out on Apple TV: if you've seen it, what is your review?

"I won’t go to my grave thinking I wasted my time in terms of my activism. I might, however, go to my grave thinking there was that one U2 song I let go of, when it was so close and I went out the back door before it was finished." - Bono on balancing music and activism, 2025

"We’ve been playing in the room together. And I can tell you he is completely through whatever storm of injury he’s been through. His playing is at its most innovative. He’s just all about the band. He doesn’t want to talk about anything else, which is amazing." - Bono on Larry