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Or perhaps Bono and The Edge performed with them.

'The Magician's Elephant'

"I didn't have the courage to own up to this next band when I was 16 in the middle of punk rock"

U2 singer recalls growing up with Swedish pop group’s music in 1970s Dublin, during BBC session with The Edge

Most of these lo-fi reimaginings only make you miss the original more

In a typically grand gesture, 40 songs are picked by the band for muted acoustic treatments, with varying degrees of success

As the musicians show off Dublin and perform beautiful reimaginings of their hits, their funny fan provides some levity — and a big finish.

The four men of U2, now either 61 or 62 years old, revisit material written in some cases when they were little more than kids out of Dublin.

In reimagining 40 of their best-known songs, U2 recognized that many fans would experience them through earphones connected to a device in their pockets — rather than being belted out onstage. That was one thought behind "Songs of Surrender," coming out this week. The four men of U2, now either…

In reimagining 40 of its best-known songs in new recordings, U2 considered how many fans experience the music: through earphones connected to a device in their pockets

LOS ANGELES — During the upcoming documentary “Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, With Dave Letterman,” the talk-show icon sits across from Bono, peering at the rock star in wonderment.