'A slap in the face against the snap, crackle and pop.' Was it really thirty years ago this month?

From Boy to Achtung Baby, how some of the band's finest work became finer still. Agreed ?

'New Year's Day' is the soundtrack to a TV spot from The European Commission, celebrating the 20th anniversary of free elections in Poland earlier this year. The band play Chorzow in Poland tonight.

One of the highlights of the new 'Live At Red Rocks' DVD, catch it here from 1983.

U2's 1983 album, War, has been remastered and is released this week.

It comes in three formats, starting with the ...

Was how Bono described 'War', the band's third album, in 1983. In an extract from his liner notes for next ...

And War too: here's the detail on the tracklisting and formats for the reformatted edition of War, on release in ...

U2's first three albums have been re-mastered and will be released by Universal on July 21st. Following the re-mastered release ...

Surely the coldest video the band have ever shot ? New Year's Day, from December 1982.

U2's first three albums have been remastered and will be released by Universal on July 21st. Following the remastered release ...

New Years Dub, the U2 sampled dance track, is just out on Serious Records.

A kind of grace through simplicity...