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The Popmart Tour (often referred to as just Popmart) was a concert tour by the Irish rock band U2, which took place from 1997 to 1998, in support of the group's 1997 album, Pop. Popmart was in part a parody of consumerism; the band kicked off the tour by holding a press conference at a Kmart store. Image File history File links The stage from U2s 1997-1998 Popmart world tour. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band formed in Dublin, featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, rhythm guitar and harmonica; The Edge (David Howell Evans) on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
A concert comprises a performance, usually involving some degree of formality, and particularly a performance featuring music. ...
Rock is a form of popular music from the late 20th century which typically features a vocal melody (often with vocal harmony) that is supported by accompaniment of electric guitars, a bass guitar, and drums, often with a strong back beat. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band formed in Dublin, featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals, rhythm guitar and harmonica; The Edge (David Howell Evans) on lead guitar, keyboards and backing vocals; Adam Clayton on bass guitar; and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
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Pop is an album released by the Irish rock band U2 in March of 1997 (see 1997 in music). ...
Consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption. ...
Kmart Corporation is an international chain of discount department stores in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. ...
The stage
The show was designed by frequent U2 collaborator Willie Williams, who had also designed their previous tour, Zoo TV. The stage included a 100-foot tall golden parabolic arch suggestive of the McDonald's logo, a 150 x 50-foot LED video screen, the largest in the world at the time. [1], and a 40-foot-tall mirrorball lemon. Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. joked that "it could have been an artichoke, but we wanted a more practical fruit." [2] Willie Williams stage and light design, U2 Vertigo Tour, 2005. ...
Zoo TV was a massive, elaborate, innovative, postmodern, multifaceted and multimedia, and very commercially successful world concert tour by the rock band U2 that took place in arenas and stadiums during 1992 and 1993. ...
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Lawrence Joseph Mullen, Jr. ...
The show The performances began in the style of a boxing match, with the band (heavily guarded with suited men) walking through the crowd towards the end of the B-stage while the "Popmart mix" of M's "Pop Muzik" was played. The show proper usually opened with "MOFO". In some pop and rock concerts held in arenas and stadiums, a B stage is a small secondary stage, usually located in the middle of the concert floor, connected to the main stage by a catwalk of some sort. ...
Robin Scott, also known as M, is a singer originally from the United Kingdom. ...
The song Pop Muzik was performed by Robin Scott, also known as M. He was a producer and musician, and the song was written as his resume of 25 years of pop music and being in the music business since 1954. ...
MOFO (short for motherfucker) was the sixth and final single from U2s Pop album. ...
As the group played, the audience was bombarded with images and colours, all designed towards the show's ironic embrace of tackiness and pop-ular culture. The band walked out from inside the giant lemon during the encore (although the lemon failed to open three times, in Oslo, Sydney and Tokyo). County Oslo NO-03 District Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 km² {{{arealand}}} km² 0. ...
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 Start of the encores, as U2 emerge from the giant mirrorball lemon. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1771x1177, 162 KB) Licensing File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Popmart Tour ...
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Reception Although the extravagance of the tour was visually and technically impressive, the early dates of Popmart were, on occasion, marred by subpar performances. The band had booked the tour before the album was finished, and with the planned November 1996 release pushed back until March 1997 to finish the album, valuable tour rehearsal time was lost. This lack of preparation manifested itself in the shows, particularly during the poorly received opening night in Las Vegas (the band lost their timing on the song "Staring at the Sun", stopped playing partway through, and then started over), contributing to the backlash against both the album and the tour. Nonetheless, the quality of the band's performances improved greatly by the second leg in Europe (evidenced by the PopHeart EP, which features three songs from the first European show in Rotterdam). The appearance at the Belfast Botanic Gardens was U2's first show in Belfast in over ten years. This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ...
Staring At The Sun was the second single released to promote U2s Pop album. ...
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PopHeart is an EP by the Irish rock band U2, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). ...
Rotterdam Location Flag Country The Netherlands Province South Holland Population 588,718 (2006) Coordinates 51° 55 N.; 4° 30 E. Website www. ...
The Palm House Belfast Botanic Gardens is a public park in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ...
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Despite its cleverness and some positive critical response, many fans felt alienated by the shows; new material from the Pop album didn't go down as well as U2 might have hoped and too many people just didn't seem to get the joke. U2 dressed as The Village People in the "Discothèque" video, and their willingness to mock their serious image continued during Popmart. They wore cowboy outfits on stage, and performances regularly featured a karaoke slot, in which The Edge would sing The Monkees' "Daydream Believer" or similar song against a cheap karaoke CD, complete with lyrics shown on the giant screen. Village People were a disco band of the late 1970s. ...
Discothèque is a single by the Irish rock band U2 released on the album Pop in 1997. ...
A Karaoke machine Karaoke (Japanese: カラオケ, from 空 karano, empty or void, and オーケストラ Åkesutora, orchestra) is a form of entertainment in which an amateur singer or singers sing along with recorded music on microphone. ...
Dave Howell Evans (born August 8, 1961, Barking, East London, England) stage name The Edge, is the lead guitarist of the Irish rock band U2. ...
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Like Zoo TV, Popmart was another huge success in terms of revenue. For example, on September 20, 1997, the band set the new European record for attendance at a concert for a single performer, when 150,000 Italians went to the "Campovolo" in Reggio Emilia. However, Popmart was not profitable for the band: despite taking $80 million in revenue, the show cost $100 million to run. Drummer Mullen Jr. said that the only thing that saved the band from financial ruin was T-shirt sales. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ...
The Sarajevo concert During the Zoo TV Tour, U2 aired controversial satellite link-ups to Sarajevo. The link-ups were arranged by aid worker Bill Carter, who interviewed ordinary people about their experiences of the ongoing Bosnian War. As a result of the satellite broadcasts, U2 promised to play in Sarajevo. The Sarajevo show had to wait until the Popmart tour, when U2 became the first major band to perform in the city after the war. The show, which was highly emotional (and heavily bootlegged), was among the highlights of the Popmart tour. 50,000 people attended and effort was made to make sure all the ethnic groups were present. There was no major incident. One news story said: "For two magical hours, the rock band U2 achieved what warriors, politicians and diplomats could not: They united Bosnia." Trains ran for the first time since the war to enable people to see the concert, though they were stopped again afterward. According to Mullen Jr., "there's no doubt that that is an experience I will never forget for the rest of my life. And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile." [3] Zoo TV was a massive, elaborate, innovative, postmodern, multifaceted and multimedia, and very commercially successful world concert tour by the rock band U2 that took place in arenas and stadiums during 1992 and 1993. ...
Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo) Coordinates: Country Bosnia and Herzegovina Entity Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Canton Sarajevo Canton Mayor Semiha Borovac Area - City 142 km² (54. ...
Bill Carter is the author of Fools Rush In. ...
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