On Feb. 11, 1982, the New Orleans punk/new wave band RZA opened for an up-and-coming Irish rock band called U2 aboard the riverboat President. Thirty-five years later, U2 returns to New Orleans to ...

ANTON CORBIJN first met U2 in February 1982. Then a photographer for an English music newspaper, Corbijn studied up on the band by listening to “October,” their second album, as he flew from London to ...

On August 21, 1982, U2 front man Bono married his high-school sweetheart, Ali Hewson, in a ceremony at All Saints Church in Raheny, Dublin. Their relationship, which began during their teenage years, ...

One thing was clear, back in the winter of 1982. No one at the famous Record Service store near the University of Illinois campus could figure out the hot new Irish band that was about to hit town.