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U2's concert on September 24, 2009, on their 360 Tour, broke the Pope's attendance record at Giants Stadium; the U2 crowd was in excess of 84,400. Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium, 1985 Many locals say it is the home turf of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band , due to the fact that they came from Freehold, New Jersey .
The U2 360° Tour was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. [1] Staged in support of the group's 2009 album No Line on the Horizon , the tour visited stadiums from 2009 through 2011. The concerts featured the band playing " in the round " on a circular stage, allowing the audience to surround them on all sides. [ 2 ]
At the first "Outside Broadcast" show on 12 August 1992 at Giants Stadium, Lou Reed performed "Satellite of Love" with the band; [117] he and Bono dueted using their contrasting vocal styles. [31] [70] Bono re-confirmed the singer's influence on the band by announcing, "Every song we've ever written was a rip-off of a Lou Reed song."
26 April: One month following the conclusion of the PopMart Tour, U2 appeared on the 200th episode of The Simpsons, "Trash of the Titans", in which Homer Simpson disrupted the band on stage during a PopMart concert. [117] 19 October: "Sweetest Thing" is released as a single. 9 November: The Best of 1980–1990 B-Sides is released. [citation needed]
The tour's opening night was on 28 March 2005 at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, California. The first leg through North America consisted of 28 sold-out indoor arena shows and finished on 28 May in Boston, Massachusetts. The second leg was a European stadium tour, commencing on 10 June in Brussels and finishing on 14 August in Lisbon.
Sting and Bono performing "Invisible Sun" on June 15, 1986, at Giants Stadium. The tour artists generally arranged their sets around themes of politics, freedom, and courage. Multiple performers joined U2 for Little Steven's "Sun City", while the assembled multitude sang Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" at the end.
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The tour name, possibly a contraction of the Rattle and Hum song "When Love Comes to Town", was the first not to be named for the band's then-current album; as of 2018, all of their subsequent tours have also had different names from any album, with the exception of the 30th anniversary tours of The Joshua Tree.