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U2 marked 50 years together with a secret 35-minute concert at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in north Dublin, where the band formed in 1976. The band also announced its 16th album, Carnaval De Luz, featuring a duet with the late Dolly Parton.
U2 marked 50 years together on Friday with a surprise concert at the north Dublin school where the band began, performing a 35-minute set for hundreds of students at Mount Temple Comprehensive School.
U2 Reunites At Birthplace For 50th Anniversary
The show recreated one of their earliest performances, when they played on the roof of the school boiler room in 1978. The 22-time Grammy-winning group formed in September 1976 after Larry Mullen Jr. pinned a handwritten note reading Drummer Seeks Musicians To Form Band on the school notice board. Mullen, Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton came together from that note, setting the band on its path to rock history.
Hundreds of students finished class early and packed the school yard, some holding hand-drawn posters saying It Is A Beautiful Day No School, and screamed throughout the set alongside enthusiastic teachers. Fans also gathered outside the school gates after word of the secret show spread. Is that the science lab, Bono said, dressed all in black, as he arrived on stage and pointed to a distant building where teachers watched from windows and recorded the scene on their phones.
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The band arrived on stage as Alice Cooper's School's Out blared from the speakers. U2 then launched into a seven-song set spanning I Will Follow and Out Of Control from their 1980 debut Boy to Vertigo, a U.K. No. 1 single 24 years later. The set also included With Or Without You, One and Beautiful Day. Around 30 students from a local music education program joined on violins, viola and harps for the rendition of One.
Bono thanked the teachers from the rock and roll high school, some of whom were in the crowd, who helped shape their creativity. This island is full of song and music and mischief and we are so proud to be Irish, he said. U2, whose most renowned albums include The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, announced this week the release of their 16th album Carnaval De Luz on Nov. 13, their first in nine years.
New Album And Legacy: U2's Next Chapter
The album will feature a duet between Bono and the late Dolly Parton in what the band said was the country singer's last vocal performance. Friday's set also included a live airing of new single Silencio. The surprise concert came as fans and media noted the milestone of 50 years since the band's formation.
The event drew attention well beyond Dublin, with the story carried by outlets in Canada and elsewhere, and it landed on a day that also featured Dolly Parton Day celebrations with parades, pink lights and book drives. Reporting by Padraic Halpin and editing by Bill Berkrot.
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