{"id":109785,"date":"2026-11-15T20:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u2-on-50-years-and-their-duet-with-dolly-parton\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T20:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T20:34:35","slug":"u2-on-50-years-and-their-duet-with-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/u2-on-50-years-and-their-duet-with-dolly-parton\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 on 50 years and their duet with Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>When U2 came knocking, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. didn&#8217;t just arrive with new music; the band came bearing gifts, which they proceeded to place over a photo of Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just wanna get Bruce Springsteen off your wall,&#8221; Bono said. &#8220;There&#8217;s some new blood coming through! But honestly Bruce, give the young people a break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a621679e-ebb0-4030-822c-913abf247818\/thumbnail\/620x349\/96fc0dfab4fba634de9266cc2f3b28bb\/bono-on-the-wall.jpg#\" alt=\"bono-on-the-wall.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a621679e-ebb0-4030-822c-913abf247818\/thumbnail\/620x349\/96fc0dfab4fba634de9266cc2f3b28bb\/bono-on-the-wall.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a621679e-ebb0-4030-822c-913abf247818\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/d13eca19ac43a8f1edfa0bef5488a584\/bono-on-the-wall.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Trying to make space for U2 on the wall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The up-and-coming Irish quartet is celebrating its 50th birthday this year \u2013 that&#8217;s half a century of hits.<\/p>\n<p>In September, U2 went back to the Dublin school where they first came together. Playing Mount Temple Comprehensive was &#8220;kind of amazing,&#8221; said The Edge. &#8220;We used the music room in Mount Temple as our rehearsal space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bono said he didn&#8217;t know what to expect from the students there: &#8220;I was nervous going out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were a couple of cheeky signs, like, &#8216;When is Oasis playing?'&#8221; said The Edge. &#8220;But for the most part they really seem to get into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was at Mount Temple in 1976 where Mullen pinned a note to the school bulletin board looking for bandmates. &#8220;I&#8217;d no expectations that anyone would show up, bizarrely,&#8221; Mullen said. <\/p>\n<p>The four got together via word of mouth. &#8220;Yeah, it&#8217;s one of those funny things that the note is legendary,&#8221; said Clayton. &#8220;And then when we started to talk about it, we realized none of us had seen it, and we&#8217;d been told about it by a friend or whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/541af41e-4df7-4ca9-b10e-6debb515d154\/thumbnail\/620x349\/c287471de82c9bc15c6d6670f9b618f5\/u2-at-mount-temple1.jpg#\" alt=\"u2-at-mount-temple1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/541af41e-4df7-4ca9-b10e-6debb515d154\/thumbnail\/620x349\/c287471de82c9bc15c6d6670f9b618f5\/u2-at-mount-temple1.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/541af41e-4df7-4ca9-b10e-6debb515d154\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/7d87f25d8408f638131c18046adf089b\/u2-at-mount-temple1.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In September, U2 performed at the Dublin school where the group formed 50 years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The band has just released &#8220;Carnaval de Luz,&#8221; their first album of new music in nearly nine years, created through a process that Bono called &#8220;chaotic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Edge reframed that as &#8220;nicely chaotic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very functionally dysfunctional,&#8221; Bono continued. &#8220;You would be shocked at just how raw it is and how just about to collapse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not precious in any way,&#8221; The Edge said. &#8220;Until almost the record is in the store, we will try and improve and change and develop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t you drive yourself nuts doing that? &#8220;Yeah. We do!&#8221; The Edge laughed. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/13\/79be5cc7-0cf1-4c02-943d-072cd5191db2\/thumbnail\/620x349\/837961c64e9fc953c7270ee516235cf5\/u2-preview.jpg#\" alt=\"u2-preview.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/13\/79be5cc7-0cf1-4c02-943d-072cd5191db2\/thumbnail\/620x349\/837961c64e9fc953c7270ee516235cf5\/u2-preview.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/13\/79be5cc7-0cf1-4c02-943d-072cd5191db2\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/d07d9e45300dd4cc7745c16fd307f287\/u2-preview.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Correspondent Anthony Mason with members of the band U2: Bono, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton and The Edge.\u00a0  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The new album marks the return of drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., who had to sit out the band&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u2-prepares-as-vegas-residency-sphere-venue\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">2024 residency at Sphere in Las Vegas<\/a><\/span> with a neck injury that threatened his career. He said he wasn&#8217;t terribly confident that he would be able to come back: &#8220;I had a congenital fusion, from moving like <em>that<\/em> for over 50 years, it basically had had enough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Yeah, a lot of people were very much on the page of, you&#8217;ve had a great life, you know, this is not worth it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He risked paralysis if the surgery went wrong. &#8220;But you know what? I really wanted to get back and play in any capacity,&#8221; Mullen said. <\/p>\n<p>Asked if they were worried that he might not play again, The Edge said, &#8220;At some point, if Larry had had to retire, we would have had to have made a very difficult call about whether U2 can go on at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we could have got a better looking, more fun drummer,&#8221; Bono added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"embed__float-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\" data-ads=\"{\" extrawordcount=\"\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a6d1809a-f2f0-4ddd-adc0-16814611f7c4\/thumbnail\/620x620\/fccf2420e5c66058be575373884be30b\/us-album-carnaval-de-luz-island-records.jpg#\" alt=\"us-album-carnaval-de-luz-island-records.jpg \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a6d1809a-f2f0-4ddd-adc0-16814611f7c4\/thumbnail\/620x620\/fccf2420e5c66058be575373884be30b\/us-album-carnaval-de-luz-island-records.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/11\/15\/a6d1809a-f2f0-4ddd-adc0-16814611f7c4\/thumbnail\/1240x1240\/9918ce0b07856bc42efa123a0ba38395\/us-album-carnaval-de-luz-island-records.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Island Records<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The band calls &#8220;Carnaval de Luz&#8221; an album of &#8220;defiant joy.&#8221; It includes the song &#8220;Torn,&#8221; a duet with Dolly Parton that would prove to be her last recording<\/p>\n<p>Bono said he approached singing with her on the track &#8220;With great trepidation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parton had shared the song with Bono: &#8220;She was like, &#8216;You can take this wherever you want to go, and I might like where you want to take it,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;But you didn&#8217;t know until it came back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How generous an act is that for a songwriter? &#8220;Oh, no, not just a songwriter; one of the great songwriters who ever lived,&#8221; Bono said. <\/p>\n<p>U2 will be back out on the road next year, aiming for another groundbreaking live show. &#8220;That&#8217;s our promise to our audience, is to try and have a shot at the best night of anybody&#8217;s life,&#8221; said Bono. &#8220;That&#8217;s what <em>we<\/em> want out of our show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Half a century on, U2 is still striving to be heard. &#8220;Whether it&#8217;s relevant or not is really not up to us,&#8221; said The Edge. &#8220;But whether we want to try and be relevant is up to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked what it means to be relevant, The Edge replied, &#8220;To be relevant is to speak of the moment. That&#8217;s why we write songs. We all believe that we could next week write the best U2 song we&#8217;ve ever written. So, there&#8217;s a lot to fight for, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think we are at our best,&#8221; said Bono. &#8220;And if anyone out there thinks they&#8217;re better \u2026 come and take it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>WEB EXTRA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kqhCVNr2ip8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch an extended interview with U2, from the podcast &#8220;Alchemy with Anthony Mason&#8221; (YouTube Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kqhCVNr2ip8?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"What does it take to stay in a band for 50 years? | U2\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kqhCVNr2ip8\" rel=\"noopener\">What does it take to stay in a band for 50 years? | U2<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AlchemywithAnthonyMason\" rel=\"noopener\">Alchemy with Anthony Mason<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong><em>To stream the U2 album &#8220;Carnaval de Luz&#8221; click on the embed below (Free Spotify registration required to hear the tracks in full):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Story produced by Jon Carras. 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