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A former U2 bodyguard is still awaiting an apology from Bono after the rocker attacked him with a guitar onstage at a gig in Boston, Massachusetts in 2001.

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NEW FIGURES show that U2’s 360° Tour has grossed more than $703 million (€534 million) after seven million rock fans paid to see the band over the past three years.

One would think Brad Pitt was nudged into humanitarian work thanks to his relationship with the always-charitable Angelina Jolie

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and U2's The Edge are both working on a new app that will let musicians share music globally

Back in 2009, U2’s front man Bono, through his investment vehicle Elevation Partners, bought a one percent stake in Facebook for $90 million. From Wednesday’s $5 billion Facebook initial public offering (IPO) Bono is set to make almost $1 billion, making him the richest rock star on the planet.

Singer Bono is set to make almost $1 billion in profit when Facebook goes public later this year, it emerged today. Wednesday's $5 billion dollar Facebook IPO is set to make thousands of stock holders a fortune, including the U2 front man who through his investment vehicle Elevation Partners bought a one percent stake in the social network for $90 million in 2009.

From Cannes by Stuart Dredge for Midem content partner Music Ally. Find them at musically.com and @musically. Google's role in the recent campaign against the proposed SOPA anti-piracy legislation in the US came in for a sustained attack by U2's manager Paul McGuinness this morning, at the Midem conference in Cannes. "Why are they not trying to solve the future in a more generous way?" he asked...

U2: From the Sky DownGenre: DocumentaryDirector: Davis GuggenheimStars: Bono, The Edge, Adam ClaytonRate: ** 1/2Davis Guggenheim’s TIFF-opening doc is not strictly a history of this legendary Irish rock band, although much is packed into 90 minutes.The film instead concentrates on lessons learned during the difficult Berlin studio birth of 1991’s Achtung Baby, U2’s seventh album, made when group ...

U2ís manager Paul McGuinness has voiced his thoughts on the arrival of ad-driven online radio services exemplified by Spotify. While McGuinness was supportive of the concept, and can see it as a viable make-up of the way that music is distributed in the future, he still has serious reservations about it. The main problem, according to McGuiness, is that Spotify and the labels have not been ...