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Awards Chatter

Bono and The Edge - 'Sing 2'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The principal songwriters of U2, one of the most popular and influential bands of all time, reflect on the origins of their sound and social conscience, how they’ve managed to stay together longer than almost any other major band and why their first new tune in three years was “Your Song Saved My Life,” which is shortlisted for the best original song Oscar. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to a very special 422nd episode of A Wards

0:13.1

Chatter, the Hollywood Reporter's Awards podcast.

0:15.9

I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today are two of the most popular and influential

0:20.0

music artists of all time.

0:22.9

They account for one half and are the principal songwriters of U2, a band from the North

0:27.7

Side of Dublin which formed in 1976 and has since made 14 studio albums sold more than

0:33.3

157 million albums, had two songs top the Billboard Hot 100 with or without you and I still

0:39.6

haven't found what I'm looking for, had eight albums top the Billboard 200 including

0:44.5

at least one in four successive decades, something which no other band has ever done, had

0:49.8

the highest grossing concert tour in history.

0:52.4

One factoring in inflation, one twenty two Grammys and two Golden Globes, been nominated

0:57.3

for two Oscars and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, their first

1:02.7

year of eligibility, Bono and the Edge.

1:07.6

For U2 Bono provides vocals and until recently also played guitar, the Edge of course plays

1:13.5

guitar as well as keyboards and also provides vocals, Adam Clayton is on bass guitar and

1:19.5

Larry Mullin Jr. handles drums and percussion.

1:23.0

Rolling Stone has called U2 quote, the biggest band left on earth, close quote, and ranked

1:27.8

U2 as the 22nd greatest artist of all time.

1:31.2

Bono and the Edge as the 35th greatest songwriters of all time, Bono as the 32nd greatest singer

1:36.7

of all time, the Edge as the 38th greatest guitar player of all time, U2's albums Achtung

1:42.6

Baby and the Joshua Tree as the 124th and 135th greatest albums of all time, and their

1:48.7

tunes won with or without you, and I still haven't found what I'm looking for as the

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