U2 and Muse Cover Talking Heads, David Bowie and Rolling Stones at Brazil Nightclub

U2 performs live on April 9, 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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U2 and Muse officially wrapped up their South American stadium tour on Wednesday night, but hours after the show ended they headed over to the Sao Paulo nightclub Bar Secreto and continued  playing on a considerably smaller stage. You'd think anything that happens super late night at  Bar Secreto remains a secreto, but thankfully somebody brought a camera and uploaded some of the songs to YouTube. Click here to watch Bono cover "Psycho Killer" with Larry Mullen Jr. and Muse's Dom Howard on drums. Click here to watch bits of every song, including The Edge singing "Miss You" and "Let's Dance" and Mullen take a rare turn at the mic with "The Wild Rover." It's unclear if Adam Clayton and the rest of Muse were in the club. Maybe they were playing next door at Bar Super Secreto.

(h/t ATU2)

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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