U2

  • I was watching a music quiz show the other day, one of the question was “Can you name the real name of this artist?” For this post I am going to turn it around. I am going to mention the real name, and a music clip, and you can figure out what the artist name

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  • U2’s The Joshua Tree (1987) is the band’s fifth studio album, widely regarded as one of their most iconic and influential works. It blends rock, post-punk, and Americana influences to explore themes of spirituality, political struggle, and personal introspection. The album features some of U2’s most recognizable tracks, including “With or Without You,” “I Still

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  • Thin Lizzy was one of Ireland’s finest band. Before U2 there was Thin Lizzy. In fact in 1976 when U2 formed, Thin Lizzy had a number one hit on Top of The Pops in the UK, with “the Boys are back in Town” However this blog is not about that song, but about my favourite

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  • ROCKTOBER-One

    In today’s edition of ROCKTOBER you get two for the price of ‘One'(see what I did there?) Starting of with Metallica’s epic song “One” Metallica thrashed into the MTV mainstream with this nightmarish tale of a World War I soldier who steps on a landmine and wakes up to find he’s lost his arms, legs,

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  • A slight deviation from my regular  history of sorts. This time I will leave the music do the talking. Throughout the decades there have been many songs that took their inspiration from historical events, below is a list and clips of some of them. Starting of with the one song that covers most of known

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  • PinkPop is the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world. It started in 1970 in the former mining town of Geleen in the south east of the Netherlands. It stayed there until 1986. In 1987 it moved north a bit to Baarlo and since 1988 it has been

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  • Starting off with probably the best known band from the low countries”Golden Earring”. Their name change was very subtle, they were formed in 1961 as the “Golden Earrings” they dropped the S in 1969. The next name change is a bit less subtle but still subtle enough “the Cranberries” started off as “the Cranberry Saw

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