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This week’s survey question is a hard one about U2

FILE - U2 guitarist The Edge wears a Music First T-shirt as he performs during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans on April 29, 2006. The Edge and his Music Rising charity will host an auction of rock memorabilia on Dec. 11, 2021 to benefit New Orleans musicians hit hard by the pandemic. Items for sale include what Edge calls his “One” guitar and memorabilia from Alice Cooper and Aerosmith to Pink Floyd and Kiss. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File). DFM MV**NY**

U2 has been a going concern since September 1976 when a bunch of schoolboys gathered in Larry Mullen Jr’s parents’ kitchen for a rehearsal. There have been no line-up changes since March 1978 (the same day they changed their name from The Hype to U2 in the middle of a gig in Dublin.) They have sold gazillions of albums and grossed well over US$2 billion in concert ticket sales.

Lately, though–okay, for the past decade–U2 has fallen into the legacy band hole. Like so many other big bands of the pre-internet era, they’ve had trouble making music that captures the public’s attention like in the old days. At one point, they wouldn’t go on tour unless they had five or six songs from a new album that they believed were worth performing live. That all came to an end with the Joshua Tree 30 tour during which the band basically went on a greatest hits jag.

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It’s been a long time since a U2 album lit up the charts, but they’re going to give it another shot–apparently a double shot–with two albums in 2023, one allegedly featuring a re-imaging of old tunes and a second of nothing but new material.

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I’ve been a fan since 1980, so I’m in. But I’m curious about your thoughts. If you’re an older U2 fan, does that band still hold your interest? If you’re on the younger side, is U2 even on your radar? Does that band have any relevance to you at all?

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