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Riding With U2: Watch the Band Prep For 360 Opener in Chicago

10/2/09, 2:13 pm EST

Follow Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. as they meet a throng of screeching fans outside their Chicago hotel, make their way to local radio stations for interviews (”The scale of the production is much bigger, but it boils down to the four of us out there,” the Edge says) and journey to Soldier Field, where U2 kicked off their epic 360° Tour. If you haven’t seen the band’s giant “Claw” stage glowing in a football stadium, don’t miss the last 25 seconds of this clip. Rolling Stone was on the ground at the opening-night show in Chicago, too — read our report and flip through photos of their show.

And don’t miss our other fantastic U2 features:

Q&A From the Cover Story: U2 on Their Next Album
Album Guide: The Essential U2
Photos: Three Decades of U2


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Pam Bonamusica | 10/4/2009, 4:21 pm EST

RS, thanks for giving us such a great impression of U2´s life during their tour. Watching the band coming out of their Chicago hotel reminds me of my own experience outside the Berlin hotel one day after the concert. Before Bono came out there was this stunning mixture of joy and exitement (but I wasn´t screeching, by the way). While waiting, I was thinking, God, I´m waayyy too nervous to talk to him(and I´ve always wanted to say or ask something). But when Bono came to me everything was easy and he wrote his beautiful autograph on my Horizon book.

The interview is also great. I really enjoy watching interviews with U2, because they are always friendly, intelligent, polite and relaxed. One part is very funny, because Bono seems to imitate somebody else (I don´t know who) and his language sounds like Italian(???)English. The man is a phenomenon, because he writes the most serious songs, but as a person he´s often so funny! There are some different Bonos indeed!

ELTON MANOEL DE SOUZA | 10/7/2009, 2:58 pm EST

Actually this band is the largest in the world. It’s funny how they can act naturally, with humility before the fans, nice to journalists, and incredible, is that this is no “marketing” tax. It really is their way, as a band and as people.

ELTON BRAZIL SÃO PAULO – Waiting for them HERE IN BRAZIL

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