Posted January 19, 201411 yr From http://www.rttnews.com/2253449/u2-announce...e.aspx?type=ent U2 Announce New Single 'Invisible' 1/19/2014 11:21 AM ET U2 have announced a new single entitled "Invisible," which will be released as part of an initiative with the charity RED to support the fight against AIDS. "Everybody's really excited about the song and the band have been shooting the video in LA.," reps for the group posted on its official website. Rumors are that the song may appear in a Super Bowl commercial which will reveal news about the band's new album, which is expected later this spring. Danger Mouse has been producing the project, which was recorded primarily at New York's Electric Lady Studios. The new album will be U2's first since 2009's No Line On the Horizon. In other U2 news, the band picked up a Best Original Song Golden Globe Award for their Nelson Mandela tribute, "Ordinary Love," as featured in the new film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. by RTT Staff Writer
January 19, 201411 yr Awesome. Really pleased to see the band releasing new stuff. Hopefully I'll like it as much as 'one'.
January 24, 201411 yr U2 to debut song in Super Bowl commercial U2 will perform a new song during Super Bowl XLVIII – but it won't be during the halftime show. The band will sing the tune Invisible in a Super Bowl commercial. U2 and Bank of America said Thursday that they will combine in a charitable fundraising effort that kicks off during the Big Game on Feb. 2. U2 frontman Bono made the announcement with Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 60-second Super Bowl ad will feature U2 singing and will invite viewers to download a limited edition of the song on iTunes. The download will be free during the game and for the following 24 hours. During that time, Bank of America will donate $1 for every download -- up to $2 million -- to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Ad time for this year's game on Fox has been sold out since the beginning of January. Some 30-second slots went for as much as $4 million. Other game advertisers include Volkswagen, Jaguar, Dannon, Doritos, Cheerios and retailer H&M. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busine...ercial/4803821/
January 25, 201411 yr Bono to U2: 'What you did was the sweetest thing' The U2 singer thanks his bandmates for donating all the cash from their new single to his charity http://i41.tinypic.com/dqov9w.jpg Bono has said he’s grateful to his bandmates for allowing their new single to be downloaded for his Red charity. The U2 frontman revealed the organisation he set up to fight Aids and HIV will be given $1 by the Bank Of America for every download of the new U2 track Invisible over 24 hours during the Super Bowl. And he said he was delighted when Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jnr and The Edge agreed to the project. Speaking to Pat Kenny on his Newstalk show, Bono said he hoped to see HIV-free countries in 2015. He added: “I’m certain in some countries we can have the first HIV-free generation by 2015 – it might be 2016 in others but it is a real, achievable goal. “Red is really pushing for this HIV-free generation and U2 has been a big supporter of Red.” Bono said that during U2’s last tour the band agreed to have a number of different sections dedicated to the charity and have been quietly backing his efforts. He added: “Though the band don’t like talking about it they did give €11million to Red and they are very strong on it. “I was very delighted and surprised when they agreed to give a sneak peak into the new album to Red.” Red initially approached the Bank Of America in the hope of doing a charity drive with them during the Super Bowl and Bono said the bank really wanted U2 to be involved. The single will be made available for free on iTunes for the first 24 hours following the Super Bowl, and for each download during that time the Bank Of America will donate $1 (73c) up to a maximum of $2million (€1.4m) to the Global Fund To Fight Aids. Bono said: “The band agreed and I am really delighted they did. The song Invisible will be free and the Bank Of America will contribute $1 for every download to the global fund.” The bank has promised Red another $8million (€5.8m) over the next two years. Bono said this pushes the amount raised in the past seven years to a quarter of a billion and added it “is kind of unbelievable and I am really grateful to them”. Bono is at the World Economic Forum in Davos and he gave Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan a glowing report over their IDA pitch. Bono said: “Jobs, jobs, jobs was the theme last night and the two of them made me very proud of the Irish. “The Taoiseach spoke extremely well without notes – really beautifully about the country and I was struck by how these two men speak very immodestly on our behalf yet are actually very modest men themselves.” Mirror.co.uk
January 31, 201411 yr Author Given that Invisible is being premiered at the Superbowl half time show, what are your thoughts on this list? http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a54...bowl-shows.html :D
February 1, 201411 yr Bono Talks New U2 Song ‘Invisible’ & Its Super Bowl Connection "We're taking all the energy around the Super Bowl and interest in what U2's doing and flipping it into the fight against HIV AIDS." http://i61.tinypic.com/261p093.jpg Amongst the deluge of high-profile commercials that will be showcased during this weekend’s Super Bowl, a Bank of America spot featuring new U2 song, “Invisible,” is sure to be amongst the most talked-about spots. The commercial, which will introduce a new partnership between Bank of America and (RED), the global fund dedicated to eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, will feature U2 performing their new song. The track is expected to be part of the band’s much-anticipated new album, tentatively scheduled for a June release. “We’re taking all the energy around the Super Bowl and interest in what U2′s doing and flipping it into the fight against HIV AIDS,” Bono told USA Today. The commercial will point U2 fans to iTunes for a free download of the new track, which will be available from 6 p.m. ET Sunday evening through 12:59 p.m. on Monday (Feb. 3). Bono also used the opportunity to announce that despite appearances and rumors to the contrary, “Invisible” is not the first official single from the new album. Related: U2 Will Return to Punk Rock Roots on New Album “We have another song we’re excited about to kick off the album,” Bono explained. “This is just sort of a sneak preview — to remind people we exist,” adding that “it’s the first one we finished” and that the group will be working on the full-length “for a couple of months.” “We want it to come out this summer, but you don’t want to let anyone down,” he explained. The band kicked around a bunch of different ideas of how to get their message across in a Super Bowl commercial: “One plan was for us to go knocking on doors in the middle of America, thanking people for saving lives,” Bono revealed. “But a couple of band members thought that might seem self-aggrandizing.” Instead, he was “amazed” when the rest of the group agreed to give away “Invisible” as part of the ad campaign. “They don’t like to talk about it, but they gave $11 million of [u2's] last tour to (RED),” the singer added. “They’re big supporters. And I’m very proud of them for this.” U2′s song “Ordinary Love,” their first in three years, from the Nelson Mandela biopic, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, recently took home the Golden Globe for Best Song and is a contender at this year’s Oscars in the same category. See if U2 can beat out other Best Song contenders, Pharrell, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and “Let It Go” from Frozen, at the 86th Annual Academy Awards, airing March 2 on ABC. news.radio.com
February 2, 201411 yr U2 @U2 16m Countdown #U2Invisible: Edge passing through Times Square last night. #NewU2song http://smarturl.it/Connect4Red pic.twitter.com/Dg4u9ieA5e http://i58.tinypic.com/2ldypfs.jpg
February 3, 201411 yr Making of Invisible KiCemeFhShA plus a short clip from the Superbowl 27xsrJKmH4c Edited February 3, 201411 yr by Sydney
February 3, 201411 yr Author Well I downloaded my free copy of Invisible from Itunes. And I really like it :w00t: It's very 'old school' U2. It could have been a track on Boy or October. Hope the new album is in a similar vein. :D
February 3, 201411 yr Author A review has flooded in :w00t: From:- http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music...y#axzz2sIXd6Vf5 Review: U2's 'Invisible' presents band at its aspirational best By Randall Roberts Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic February 3, 2014, 10:35 a.m. The new single from U2 is called "Invisible," and it was released for free on iTunes on Super Bowl Sunday. Produced by Danger Mouse and taken from the band's forthcoming album, it's both a pleasant surprise and a fairly typical track by the world's biggest rock band. Relying on the Teutonic "motorik" beat as the propellant, it features the kind of grand, aspirational chorus that Bono and buds were born to birth and flies on the wings of a typically sticky guitar melody courtesy of the Edge. Which is another way of saying, if you're not down with U2's vibe, don't consider "Beautiful Day" to be among the band's best, have made your mind up about Bono or consider them incapable of cruising down roads no other major rock band dare travel, get off the bus at the next stop. Me, I think it's a prime U2 jam, a snagged-from-the-ether track so logical as to feel somehow fated to exist. But, then, I'm a male who's a sucker for that beat, cry during movies and tend to look for the best in people, so of course I'm a Bono target. The track hooks from the first tone, commencing like a lost Kraftwerk outtake from "Autobahn," introducing a mechanical rhythm that moves independent of drummer Larry Mullen Jr. This beat is the song's backbone and coasts through "Invisible" effortlessly, with Mullen adding his archetypal snare and bass-kick combo and the Edge layering guitar tracks atop one another. Heard as an instrumental minus Bono's vocals, "Invisible" is the kind of monolith of musical logic one hopes to hear from U2: two verses, chorus, two verses, chorus, bridge, fade. To accept U2 at this point, of course, is to expect that lyrically the band will work to inspire, will convey some sort of grandly unified message that speaks truth to power without being too political about it. "Invisible" is exactly that: an uplifting message song with little nuance but much Truth. "I'm more than you know/I'm more than you see here/More than you let me be," sings Bono, harnessing notions of self-respect, both the personal kind and the universal-struggle kind. He's already given a departing lover his heart in the song's first verse and declared independence in the second. "I'm more than you know/A body in a soul/You don't see me but you will/I am not invisible/I am here." He shifts from micro to macro as the song proceeds, suggesting that self-confidence and tolerance can combine to bring peace. "There is no them, there's only us," he repeats as the band, as crisp and electric as ever, drops from distortion to clarity and back again. "There's only you, and there's only me," concludes Bono, and the song fades. The band has yet to confirm a release date for its still untitled new album, but don't be surprised if U2 pulls a Beyoncé and unveils it suddenly. :cheer:
February 4, 201411 yr I was not sure if I liked it at first but having heard it again it's grown on me ... The song was written it seems when Bono was a teenager in London ....
February 5, 201411 yr Author It was? :blink: Guess that would explain why I thought it sounded very 'early' U2.
February 6, 201411 yr It was? :blink: Guess that would explain why I thought it sounded very 'early' U2. I thought the same ...
March 8, 201411 yr it's the great coming out, first was coldplay now U2 is giving us new stuff :yahoo: :yahoo:
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