Newsgroup: it.fan.musica.u2
Titolo: La verità, tutta la verità su ATYCLB...

Dall'intervista a Spin di gennaio:
Bono: (parlando di ATYCLB) l'album manca un pň di alcune delle cose che
penso la nostra band faccia bene, alcuni degli aspetti piů anarchici e
leggermente astratti; Forse č costruito in maniera un pň troppo rigorosa"...
Come c'č scritto su 
u2log.com
 "questa piccola frase potrebbe essere un punto
di svolta. Dopo l'Elevation Tour, ATYCLB diventa tranquillamente il passato,
per far spazio a qualcosa di nuovo"
Piccola nota: siccome sono 10 giorni che per non so quale motivo non riesco
ad accedere a 
youtwo.net
, qualcuno potrebbe postare sul NG l'intera
intervista, che si trova al link
http://www.youtwo.net/news_archives.adp?newsid=13816
 ? Magari poi io la
traduco e ne potrebbe nascere un bel dibattito...
--
/|Fly|\
e-mail: 
everybodyisar...@hotmail.com
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Forse č scoppiata una scintilla secolare
in questo anno malato
di non amore

      Spin: Part 1 - U2 Band of The Year and Issue Cover
 
http://www.spin.com
  December 9, 2001
        Thanks to Ben for the following.
        From Spin:
        Band of the Year: Rock's Unbreakable Heart;
        After more than two decades, U2's music and
        message were more relevant than ever this year
        (YouTwo.net note: The issue's cover can be seen at
http://youtwo.net/pictures_archive/spin2001.jpg
)
        "I always believed that music is a transcendent thing, a healing
thing," says
        Bono. "I just didn't think that I would have to depend on it as much
as I did this
        year."
        The Elevationair jet cruises through the October Canadian sky. Just
minutes
        ago, U2 were onstage in Montreal's Molson Centre, driving home the
second
        show of the third leg of their monumental Elevation tour. Now,
29,000 feet up, in
        the front row of the band's 44-seat private 727 on the hour-long
flight to Toronto,
        Bono slouches, shoes off, and in a voice barely above a whisper,
reflects on a
        year marked by triumph (the stunning success of U2's tenth album,
All That
        You Can't Leave Behind, and the accompanying tour) and painful loss
        (including the death of his father in August and of one of his
musical idols, Joey
        Ramone, who spent his last minutes listening to a U2 song).
        "I think if we hadn't been on tour, if we'd been at home, this would
have been a
        very hard year for me," says the singer, who just this morning
sneaked in a
        meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and a visit to
the Montreal
        International Film Festival with director Wim Wenders and still made
it to
        soundcheck in time. "I'm grateful to this band and grateful to our
audience, but
        more so to the God that's in the music -- whatever piece of God you
find."
        It's been a remarkable run for Ireland's Finest. The multiplatinum
All That You
        Can't Leave Behind, celebrated as a return to form for the band when
it
        was released in October 2000, stayed steady on the charts for the
entire
        year. After U2 launched the album with a series of riveting TV
appearances, it
        spun off four singles: "Beautiful Day," "Elevation," "Walk On" and
"Stuck in a
        Moment You Can't Get Out Of." U2 won three Grammys this year for
"Beautiful
        Day," and it's safe to assume the album will pick up some more
nominations in
        2002. At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, they were given the Video
        Vanguard Award for lifetime achievement. In addition to his campaign
for third
        world debt relief, Bono helped organize the all-star benefit remake
of Marvin
        Gaye's "What's Going On," personally corralling a new generation of
stars from
        Britney Spears to Fred Durst to Nelly in an effort to raise money
for worldwide
        AIDS relief and the United Way's September 11th Fund.
        But mostly, there was the tour. U2 played more than a hundred shows
in 2001,
        performing in front of some two million people. After the massive
spectacles of
        their last two global operations (1992's Zoo TV tour and 1997's
PopMart
        extravaganza), they stripped down to a basic stage design and a set
list that
        showcased the full scope and force of their 23 years playing
together with the
        same lineup. Bono, 41, guitarist the Edge, 40, bassist Adam Clayton,
41, and
        drummer Larry Mullen Jr., 40, schooled bands half their age about
what a rock
        show could really accomplish.
        And then there was September 11. In the wake of the attacks on New
York and
        the Pentagon, even people who hadn't thought about the band in years
began
        to rediscover the power of U2. In a horrible flash, the depth and
substance of
        the band's work shone in vivid contrast to the superficial gloss and
thud of the
        last decade of pop music. The sense of community and conscience that
        always defined U2 felt necessary, rather than just admirable.
Hopeful songs
        like "Walk On" and "Peace on Earth" took on new relevance and became
        reassuring presences on the radio. All That You Can't Leave Behind
started
        climbing back up the charts. The shows became, incredibly, even more
        emotional and uplifting. There was no longer any question about who
the Band
        of the Year really was.
        As the latest go-round of the Elevation marathon kicked off, one
month after the
        attacks, the members of U2 spent several days -- on their plane,
backstage,
        and in their Toronto hotel -- looking back on the tumultuous year,
and on the
        unprecedented longevity of their career as true rock 'n' roll
heroes.
        (Continued)

 per far spazio a qualcosa di nuovo"
Menomale;-)))
keith