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A journalist listened to U2

while undergoing radiation at a hospital;

from left, the Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

in their early days.

Photograph: Lex van Rossen

MAI and Redferns, via Getty Images

U2’s Music Shaped My Life. Then It Helped Save It.

While I was undergoing treatment to eradicate a tumor,

listening to songs from the band’s long career

became its own vital form of medicine.

NYT

April 28, 2023    Updated 11:51 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/
arts/music/u2-medical-treatment.html

Ordinary Love    U2    2013

'Ordinary Love'    U2

New Video by Oliver Jeffers & Mac Premo    29 December 2013

A couple of weeks back the band dropped by

the New York studios of Oliver Jeffers and Mac Premo,

the creative duo behind the 'Ordinary Love' lyric video.

Oliver and Mac have now come up with a new cut of the video,

this one to accompany Paul Epworth's version of the track.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGjdZX-pK7s

"Ordinary Love" is a song by rock band U2.

It was written dedicated to Nelson Mandela.

It was also created to be included

in the biography movie Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

Source: Wikipedia, 28 October 2022

U2    Electrical Storm    (Directors Cut)

U2 - Electrical Storm (Directors Cut)

Video    U2    18 July 2014

released as a single on 21 October 2002 (Wikipedia)

REMASTERED IN HD! UP TO 4K!!

Starring Larry Mullen and British actress Samantha Morton,

the video for the 2002 single 'Electrical Storm' from The Best Of 1990-2000

was filmed in the south of France and directed by Anton Corbijn.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4gUkN4Ohho

U2

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U2_discography

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arts/music/u2-medical-treatment.html

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1163072864/bono-and-the-edge-tiny-desk-concert

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surrender-40-songs-one-story-by-bono-review-from-boy-to-mandela

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u2-review-who-knew-stadium-rock-didnt-need-constant-reinvention

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u2-review-manchester-arena-experience-innocence-tour

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u2-cancels-sold-out-berlin-show

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u2-songs-of-experience-review

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bono-malta-firm-buy-lithuania-shopping-centre-u2-paradise-papers

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u2-and-ed-sheeran-cancel-st-louis-shows-due-to-security-concerns

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551515974/u2-cancels-st-louis-concert-after-protests-over-police-acquittal

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547317173/u2-unveils-new-single-the-blackout-
from-its-upcoming-album-songs-of-experience 

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520443744/u2-on-the-joshua-tree-a-lasting-ode-to-a-divided-america

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arts/music/u2-returns-to-paris-for-concert-called-off-after-terrorist-attacks.html

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arts/music/u2-preaching-defiance-heads-back-to-paris.html

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u2-honour-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-found-dead-in-hotel-room

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arts/music/with-songs-of-innocence-u2-recasts-its-youth.html

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u2-songs-of-innocence-first-listen-review

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nelson-mandela-protest-song-special-aka

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u2-ordinary-love

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u2-tour-carbon-footprint

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u2-world-tour-carbon-footprint

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u2-sneaks-into-fordham-and-fans-follow/

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u2-unseen-diary-gallery?picture=339822780

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aids.arts

Bono

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/
1163072864/bono-and-the-edge-tiny-desk-concert

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/06/
surrender-40-songs-one-story-by-bono-
review-from-boy-to-mandela

The Edge

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/
1163072864/bono-and-the-edge-tiny-desk-concert

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