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Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press " title="20091018_u2360" width="600" height="549" class="size-full wp-image-634" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Irish rock band U2 performs under a huge video screen during the North American leg of their 360 Tour at Soldier Field on Sept. 12 in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast/Associated Press </p></div><br /> <strong>U2: The band that could not get any bigger outdoes itself again. </strong></p> <p>Published: 10/18/2009 2:29 AM<br /> Last Modified: 10/18/2009 6:02 AM</p> <p>—————————————————————————————————————————————————</p> <p><em>It’s a name that doesn’t take up much space. Yet it says a mouthful. </em></p> <p>Two figures — one alphabetic, one numeric — combine to form an iconic statement, conveying welcome and acceptance. It might have started out just as U2, but now, those two figures carry more impact, inspiration and influence than anyone could have imagined from four lads out of Ireland. </p> <p>And that very big band with a very small name will be in Norman on Sunday. </p> <p>It all started in 1976 in Dublin, when drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posted an ad seeking band mates. Seven guys showed up, and they formed a band called Feedback. That group dwindled to four and they took the name U2. The final lineup was set in 1978 — it was Mullen, Paul Hewson (now and forever Bono), Dave Evans (The Edge) and Adam Clayton. </p> <p>They began as emulators of post-punk: Sex Pistols, Clash, Joy Division — that English sound that blossomed after the bloodbath of the hippie music — and they’ve bloomed, shrank near death through a brief period of experimental, misunderstood music, and regenerated so many times that they no longer really have a genre. They don’t identify with an epoch. And their fans certainly have no age limit. </p> <p>U2 has remained relevant, keeping in touch with styles and trends in music, while maintaining a sound exclusively theirs. They’ve had some bummer albums, experimental attempts that didn’t wow fans, such as 1997’s “Pop,” panned by many loyal fans but praised by critics. </p> <p>Still, you compare “Pop” to some of the music coming out of the birth of the death of grunge, and it’s still a U2 record. It’s still deliberate and good, intelligent and relevant.<br /> Yes, he’s still running<br /> Despite a possession of marijuana charge Clayton collected in 1989, you aren’t likely to read about them in the tabloids. They don’t beat up their spouses (Bono’s been married to his high school sweetheart Alison since 1982); they don’t curse grandly. </p> <p>They’ve even been called a religious band. They sum up their beliefs in short, they are all Christians, according to their well-informed fan site, .u2faqs.com. It’s also evident in many songs, such as “40,” an interpretation of Psalm 40 in the Bible: </p> <p>“I waited patiently for the Lord </p> <p>He inclined and heard my cry </p> <p>He brought me up out of the pit </p> <p>Out of the miry clay” </p> <p>You can see it again in “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For:” </p> <p>“You broke the bonds<br /> And you loosed the chains<br /> Carried the cross<br /> Of my shame<br /> Oh my shame<br /> You know I believe it.” </p> <p>In 2002, Bono said on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “I’m a believer, but religion is the thing when God, like Elvis, has left the building. But when God is in the house, you get something else. I’m happy in a Catholic cathedral or a tent show down in the South with gospel music.” </p> <p>Out of that religious bedrock, the band has formed a Teflon shell of protection while firing out missiles of hope, peace and understanding. They’ve always been revolutionaries, even when Americans didn’t know anything about them.<br /> <strong>‘War’ of the worlds</strong><br /> “War,” U2’s third full-length album, was a self-proclaimed “crusade of pacifism.” It’s a constant tightly wound thread that has stitched together a band that can give its opinions and still maintain respect, a band that has put its money where its hope is. They became associated — without need for fanfare or applause — with Amnesty International, Greenpeace and a multitude of humane coalitions and causes. They’ve lent their voices and cash to HIV/AIDS awareness, Hurricane Katrina and political campaigns, to name just a small fragment. </p> <p>U2 played the inaugural celebration for President Obama, and during a performance of “Pride,” Bono said: “This is not just an American dream, but also an Irish dream, a European dream, an African dream an Israeli dream and a Palestinian dream.” </p>   <div class="adsense adsense-midtext" style="text-align:center;margin: 12px;"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div><p>Early fans of MTV, the network that at one time showed videos, might remember Bono as a mullet-sporting, flag waving, exuberant singer when the video for “Sunday Bloody Sunday” began getting airplay, a live video recorded at Red Rocks. That song — with a riff so strong it commands respect and revolution-inspiring lyrics — spoke of the long-fought war raging in Ireland and carried the refrain “How long? How long must we sing this song? How long? Tonight, we can be as one.” </p> <p>Fans of 1980s new wave might remember them being on Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” a fledgling effort led by fellow activist Bob Geldof, and the jumping off point for Live Aid. But they weren’t big-time. Not yet.<br /> <strong>Band of the ’80s</strong><br /> They started establishing a sound around 1984, with the help of legendary producers and music legends Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno. 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And when you consider the time, it really makes no sense. </p> <p>“Sunday Bloody Sunday” was up against Van Halen’s “Jump,” Duran Duran’s “The Reflex,” and the early days of light-spirited hair metal (Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi ), and still, somehow, they caught on with their anthems of hope, peace, strife and change. </p> <p>But it wasn’t until 1987 that they became gods of rock. They looked back to their roots and polished off a bluesy style that didn’t quite fit the decade, yet fit hand in glove. </p> <p>The band again branched, giving the world “Achtung Baby” in 1991, and then they stopped being rock musicians and started being legends. This album looked inward, though it still contained the poetry infused in so many of their other albums. </p> <p>After “Achtung Baby,” U2’s only known rough patch began. From 1994 to the end of the millennium, they were somewhat out of the music picture, seemingly gearing up for a time when the world needed them. </p> <p>In 2000, the band declared it was “reapplying for the job of the best band in the world.” They released “All That You Can’t Leave Behind,” reconnecting with old engineers and producers (Lanois and Eno) and reseeding their garden of peace and hope. They have ruled the 2000s since, releasing “How to Dismantle the Atomic Bomb” and becoming synonymous with iPods with the song “Vertigo.” They hooked the next generation of fans, who’ve immersed themselves in the past recordings without thought to it being out-of-date or old. </p> <p>And Sunday, when the Irish invasion begins in Norman, Oklahomans will be privy to the U2 Effect. Stand still and soak it all in — you’re witnesssing legend. </p> <p><strong><br /> 360 degrees of U2</strong><br /> U2 is coming to Oklahoma, and they’re bringing one crazy stage. </p> <p>I went to the U2 concert in Arlington, Texas, on Monday and was impressed, if not confused, by the stage. It was a tall, insect/spaceship structure with a video board hanging beneath it. </p> <p>The stage for the tour is designed to give everyone a good look at the stage from any angle. The cylindrical video board was one of the coolest parts of the show. 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