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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."
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24 January – 28 February: U2 play dates in the United Kingdom and play their first tour of continental Europe. [28] 3 March: Boy is released in the United States. [citation needed] 3 March – 31 May: U2 commence their first major tour of the United States playing almost 60 dates across the country largely in clubs. [29]
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.
[2] Williams said using the original tour's stage for inspiration was a "get out of jail free card" for him, as he was not sure how he could follow up the extravagance of the stage he designed for the band's previous stadium tour, the U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011. Williams called the creative process "pedal to the metal for six months".
Concerts that were held at the National Stadium, Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales, between 1987 and 1996 and included U2, Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones. The last concert at the stadium was performed by Tina Turner on 14 July 1996. In 1997 the National Stadium was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium.