U2
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The legend goes that it was the late great Irish music journalist, Bill Graham, who told the late, great Island press officer, Rob Partridge, that U2 were going to be bigger than Thin Lizzy. So it was that Partridge dragged Chris Blackwell away from the Crystal Palace Bowl on a Saturday night in July 1980, where Bob Marley and the Wailers had just mesmerised fifty thousand people, to a south London pub, the Half Moon in Herne Hill, where U2 were struggling to keep the attention of about fifty punters.
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353 imagesThe legend goes that it was the late great Irish music journalist, Bill Graham, who told the late, great Island press officer, Rob Partridge, that U2 were going to be bigger than Thin Lizzy. So it was that Partridge dragged Chris Blackwell away from the Crystal Palace Bowl on a Saturday night in July 1980, where Bob Marley and the Wailers had just mesmerised fifty thousand people, to a south London pub, the Half Moon in Herne Hill, where U2 were struggling to keep the attention of about fifty punters. These are the photographs. -
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96 imagesU2 working with Greenpeace in Russia and at the Sellafield Nuclear plant in 1992 -
44 imagesU2 perform with Baaba Maal at the Island Records 50th Anniversary Concert. Back stage photos with Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) -
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31 imagesThe U2 Boy tour and its backstage at the Hammersmith Palais June 1981. The room was small, 3 meters square maybe, but crammed in were U2, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Townsend. -
31 imagesThe Edge and other Stars visit the Moscow to help promote Greenpeace in Russia 1989.