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MULHER: PROPORÇÕES IDEAIS

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Geralmente a mulher é qualificada por peso e medida…

Dos trés, um… A mulher, o peso ou a medida!… Tudo junto é demasiado… ao que se define a mulher ideal! Será? Será que, o que define o ser mulher é o peso ou a medida? É de se acreditar que, o ser mulher infelizmente não se define pelas qualidades… mas no conteúdo: nádegas grandes e levantadas, dois belos pares de coxas grandes, seios grandes e duros, lábios carnudo, nariz afilados e arrebitados, barriga e corpo sarados. Se não for assim, ao conceito de muitos, a inteligência feminina é definida como o mesmo que ir para cozinha lavar louças e limpar chão. Por mais que a mulher seja capaz, há sempre o conceito contrário… Exceção! Quão seria feliz se a mulher encontrasse definitivamente seu espaço sem o julgo de, que, a mulher é de insignificância… que por isso, seu lugar é no segundo plano!… Até quanto? É realmente lastimável perceber que em pleno século 21, a sociedade ainda leva à peito que o ser mulher tem que arcar com tudo às costas sem reclamar. Não é de se estranhar… Comparar a mulher com um burro de carga! Não! Não! É visto mundialmente, que, infelizmente, compete a mulher realizar tarefas ordinárias, ou seja, tarefas que o homem não se destina a fazer. Exceção! Nisso tudo… Há quem diga que a mulher em segundo plano , é da vontade de do/da Criador/ra do Universo porque, a Bíblia relata. Na minha convicção, me levar a crê que, negativo. Que pai ou mãe em sua sã consciência teria esse tipo de descriminação para com ambos filhos? É, cada um com a sua teoria… Eu realmente torço para que definitivamente, o ser mulher encontre de uma vez por todas… seu lugar na sociedade sem descriminação! Pense, o que seria de nós se depara-se-nos a todo momento com a mesma cara ou corpo? Por isso, cada um é como é… Com às suas diferencias, qualidades e defeitos! Se não se sente feliz em assobiar para uma mulher que não esteja nas proporções ideais a sua medida… não é inteligente esnobar-la para s sentir contente!
Lembre-se!… A vida individual de cada um, não nos diz respeito! Afinal, cada um sabe o que sente! No que se enquadra às proporções ideias da mulher, seria importante respeitar como cada uma é. Veja que, ao desrespeitar, criticar ou julgar uma mulher que não se enquadra ao seu perfil, você pode está a fazer o mesmo com alguém próximo.
Há que fazer valer o Consenso Social… para que haja equilíbrio de gênero!
O Mundo não é Necessariamente propriedade individual… seja lá de quem for!
O mundo é nosso com toda riqueza… sem distinção de gênero!
Viva a mulher! Viva a Vida!

Josefa Santos – Lápis 6-B e Esfuminho.

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Obrigada.

Spectrum – Florence and The Machine – Espectro – https://youtu.be/iC-_lVzdiFE
Quando nós viemos pela primeira vez aqui
Nós éramos gelados e éramos claros
Sem cores em nossas peles
Nós eramos transparentes e finos como papel
E quando nós viemos pela primeira vez aqui
Nós éramos gelados e éramos claros
Sem cores em nossas peles
Até que nós deixamos o espectro entrar
Diga o meu nome
E todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
E quando nós viermos para você
Estaremos vestidos de azul
Com o oceano em nossos braços
Beijaremos seus olhos e beijaremos suas palmas
E quando for tempo de rezar
Nós estaremos vestidos de cinza
Com metal em nossas línguas
E prata em nossos pulmões
Diga o meu nome
E todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
E quando nós voltarmos estaremos vestidos de preto
E você vai gritar meu nome bem alto
E nós não comeremos e não dormiremos
Nós vamos tirar os corpos das suas covas
Então, diga o meu nome
E todas as cores se iluminam
E nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Enquanto todas as cores se iluminam
Nós estamos brilhando
E nunca teremos medo novamente
Diga o meu nome
Nós estamos brilhando
Diga o meu nome
Diga o meu nome
E nunca teremos medo novamente

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Happy Mother’s Day in Brazil and in other countries!

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Mother, there is only one
At any stage of the child’s life
rain
do Sol
The mother is there
With umbrella – open umbrella
For the son ambarar
Mother is always mother
You think so
All children
Mother is a divine being
A real mother
It is
In any corner
Open arms
To welcome the child
Mother snuggles
Mother cherishes
in good
And bad
Life moments
If you have your
Do not waste time
To give you
The deserved applause
For load in the womb
And every year
Of her life
Without closing the eyes
Even drunk sleep
Do not sling off
The window eyes
The limited hours for his name
thanks
the Father
the Son
And the Holy Spirit
Well said day
Who bore him
in the womb
Our Father
Holy Mary
Save my son
Where to go
Today and always
All I have
He’s my best
Gift
A mother deserves
cheer
Every time …
Do not expect your mother
Close the eyes
Or leave the scene
Der him the applause
Before the curtain
Stage of life
closes
to recognize
The great actress Real
That was his mother
At all stages
Of your life…

Mother, you are very dear …
Happy your day!
Today and always!
I love you, mom!

Kisses to all mothers of Brazil, and other countries.

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Thanks.

Regards,

Josefa Santos

Vivo Por Ella – Andrea Bocelli & Sandy
Vivo por ella sin saber
si la encontré o me encontrado
Ya no recuerdo como fue
pero al final me ha conquistado
Vivo por ella que me da
toda mi fuerza de verdad
Vivo por ella y no me pesa
Vivo por ela eu também
e não há razão pra ter ciúmes
Ela é tudo e mais além
como o mais doce dos perfumes
Ela vai onde quer que eu vá
não deixa a solidão chegar
Mais que por mim
por ela eu vivo também
Es la musa que te invita
A sonhar com coisas lindas
En mi piano a veces triste
la muerte no existe
si ella está aquí
Vivo por ela que me dá
todo amor que é necessário
Forte e grande como o mar
frágil e menor do que um aquário
Vivo por ella que me da
fuerza, valor y realidad
para sentirme un poco vivo…
Como dói quando me falta
Vivo por ella en un hotel
Como sai quando me assalta
Vivo por ella en propria piel
Si ella canta en mi garganta
mis penas mas negras espanta
Vivo por ella y nadie más
puede vivir dentro de mi
Ella me da la vida, la vida…
sí está junto a mí
Si está junto a mí,
Desde un palco o contra un muro
Vivo por ela e ela me tem
En el trance mas oscuro
Vivo por ela e ela me tem
Cada día una conquista
la protagonista
es ella también
Vivo por ella porque va
dándome siempre la salida
porque la musica es así
fiel y sincera de por vida
Vivo por ela que me dá
as noites livres para amar
Se eu tivesse outra vida seria
dela também…
Ella se llama musica
E ela me tem
Vivo por ella créeme
Por ela também
Yo vivo per lei
E viverei… https://youtu.be/Qc31uexnjx4
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Feliz Dia das Mães no Brasil e nos demais Países!

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Neste Dias das Mãe, agradeço a Deus/a por ter me concedido a Graça de ganhar meu filho,

William Filipe

Obrigada ao Criador/a do Universo!
Feliz Dia das Mães no Brasil e nos demais Paíes, todos os Dias!

Mãe, há só uma
Em qualquer fase da vida do filho
Faça chuva
Faça Sol
A mãe lá está
Com o guarda chuva – chapéu de chuva aberto
Para o filho ambarar
Mãe, é sempre mãe
Que pense assim
Todos os filhos
Mãe é um ser divino
Uma verdadeira mãe
Não se encontra
Em qualquer esquina
De braços abertos
Para acolher o filho
Mãe que aconchega
Mãe que acarinha
Nos bons
E maus
Momentos da vida
Se tens a sua
Não perca mais tempo
Para dar-lhe
Os aplausos merecidos
Por lhe carregar no ventre
E por todos os anos
De vida dela
Sem fechar os olhos
Mesmo bêbada de sono
Não desgruda
Os olhos da janela
A horar pelo seu nome
Agradece
Ao Pai
Ao Filho
E ao Espirito Santo
Bem dito dia
Que lhe gerou
No ventre
Pai nosso
Ave-Maria
Guarde o meu filho
Por onde andar
Hoje e sempre
De tudo que tenho
Ele é meu melhor
Presente
Uma Mãe merece
Aplausos
A todo momento…
Não espere sua Mãe
Fechar os olhos
Ou sair de cena
Der-lhe os aplausos
Antes que a cortina
Do palco da vida
Se feche
Para reconhecer
A grande atriz Real
Que foi sua Mãe
Em todas as fases
De sua vida…

Mãe, és muito querida…
Feliz teu Dia!
Hoje e sempre!
Amo-te Mãe!

Beijinhos a todos Mães do Brasil, e dos demais Países.

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Obrigada.

Atenciosamente,

Josefa Santos

Ave Maria – Luciano Pavarotti

Ave Maria, cheia de graça.
Ave Maria, cheia de graça
Ave Maria, cheia de graça
Hail, Hail, mestre;
O Senhor é contigo.
Bendita és tu entre as mulheres, em,
e abençoou
e bendito é o fruto de
vosso ventre, Jesus.
Ave-Maria.

(Algumas versões adicione o seguinte)

Sancta Maria,
ora pro nobis,
nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora
mortis nostrae.
Um homem – https://youtu.be/sGr6B6Rp4PU

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MAN: PROPORTIONS IDEALS

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Does the ideal proportions of the man is in the hands or feet?

There is much to be said, not only of man’s ideas proportions! So, is not there? Generally, man is qualified by the appearance from head to toe. And to that look … volume meter? And the doubts …? Numerous … Look at your feet … small! Deducts … Poor guy! This does not take big steps! … Not even shoes to boots with 7 leagues! … Not even the measure step by step counting and stretched! … See it’s not different, I think the hands and short, thin fingers . With half open look vision … Think! This is wanting great things! … The genre! And so it goes on … the judge by the disproportionate appearance of perculiar vision. Of course! Each head his sentence … in that regard contained thoughts! It all … is to believe, there are those who dare to go against the whole system focused on the use of clothing, and not the “Labels”. See this! There are people buying branded clothes, but when I get home starts to “label” because, not like the name, feel to that brand name is a burden on the shoulder and legs. Only joined this part related brand because it is fashionable.

The foreign judgment, we can not change, according to our will … but we can almost reach it! … I realize that if the man was qualified, rather than judged … we would live in the better world, and conditions abitáveis more!

The thought makes us want … the reality that everyone would like to believe!

I think…

You think…

We thought … and a day will come true!

We believe … The man has the capacity to design beautiful things to behold! … Https://youtu.be/B1wUVExfkkM

Josefa Santos – Proportions man Ideals. Pena nozzle.

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The Child In Us

Puzzle

The Child In Us

Prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
HastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair
Naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM Who is the smiling face, the granting of all destination
Whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear,
Who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones
Puer natus est nobis,
Et Filius datus est nobis:
Testator emperium super humerum …
To us a child is born,
To us a son is given:
And the government will be on his shoulders …
One day you came
And I knew you were her
You were the rain, you were the sun
But I needed both, as needed you
You were the one
I’ve dreamed of all my life
When it’s dark you are my light
But do not forget
Who is always our guide
It is the child within us

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HOMEM: PROPORÇÕES IDEAIS

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Será que às proporções ideais do homem está nas mãos ou nos pés?

Há muito que se diga, não somente da proporções ideias do homem! Então, não há?    Geralmente, o homem é qualificado  pela aparência da cabeça aos pés. E àquele olhar… medidor de volume? E às dúvidas…?  Inúmeras… Olha para os pés… pequenos! Deduz… Coitado! Esse não dar grandes passos!… nem mesmo calçado com às botas 7 léguas!… Nem mesmo a medir passo a passo contando e esticado!… Veja que não é diferente,  o julgo às mãos e dedos curtos e finos. Com olhar aberto meia visão… Pensa! Essa deixa a desejar grandes coisas!… do gênero!    E assim vai  sucessivamente… o julgo pela aparência desproporcional da visão perculiar.    Claro! Cada cabeça, sua sentença… no que refere pensamentos contidos! Nisso tudo… É de se acreditar que, há quem se atreve a ir contra a todo um sistema voltado para o uso da roupa, e não da “Etiquetas”.    Veja essa! Há pessoa que compra roupa de marca, mas ao chegar em casa arranca a “Etiqueta” porque, não gosta do nome, sente que àquele nome de marca é um peso no ombro e nas pernas.  Que apenas aderiu tal peça da referente marca, porque, está na moda.

O julgamento alheio, não podemos modificar,  segundo a nossa vontade… mas podemos chegar quase la!… Eu percebo que, se, o homem fosse qualificado, ao invés de julgado… viveríamos no mundo melhor, e em condições mais abitáveis!

O pensamento deixa-nos a deseja… a realidade que todos gostariam de acreditar!

Eu penso…

Você pensa…

Nós pensamos… e um dia há de se concretizar!

Vamos acreditar… O homem tem capacidades para elaborar coisas lindas de se contemplar!… https://youtu.be/B1wUVExfkkM

Josefa Santos – Proporções Ideais do homem. Bico de Pena.

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The Child In Us

Enigma

A Criança Em Nós

Prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
HastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair
Naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM Quem é da face risonha, concedente de todo destino
De quem as mãos estão prontas a salvar qualquer um do medo,
Quem é adornada por vários ornamentos com pedras preciosas
Puer natus est nobis,
Et filius datus est nobis:
Cujus emperium super humerum…
Para nós uma criança nasceu,
Para nós um filho foi dado:
E o governo será sobre seus ombros…
Um dia você veio
E eu soube que você era ela
Você era a chuva, você era o sol
Mas eu precisei de ambos, pois precisei de você
Você era aquele
Que eu estive sonhado em toda minha vida
Quando está escuro vocé é minha luz
Mas não se esqueça
Quem é sempre nosso guia
É a criança dentro de nós

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IF THE WORLD CAN HEAR ME AND REMAIN SILENT …

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Hello, friends and friends, your likes the page Jôwill Arts Gallery – Viva Brazil World Arts!
Right now, I’m at that point in life where I celebrate all or nothing … because I wanted to shout to the world! Every wonder that I have lived and once to the present!
Ui! Ui! Ouch! … How many fantasies wasted! But if the world can hear me and be silent on … I promise to tell you all without points … but to point to no unnecessary haste! … Nothing is worth + to live sacred moments … for the meaning of life, is in not wasting not a minute to be with salty tears!
Oh, wonder of life … is to live in love! .. If only by Facebook friends, Google and etc … and such! … Social Networks!

Thank you very much! Kisses in the hearts …

Regards,

Josefa Santos – U2 Découpage.

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I cry … – https://youtu.be/ZpDQJnI4OhU

One (feat. U2)

Mary J. Blige

One (feat. U2)

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same?
Will it make it easier on you now?
You got someone to blame

You say one love, one life (one life)
It’s one need in the night
One love (one love), get to share it
Leaves you darling, if you don’t care for it

Mary

Did I disappoint you?
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without

Well it’s too late, tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We’re one, but we’re not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other
One…

Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus?
To the lepers in your head

Well, did I ask too much, more than a lot?
You gave me nothing, now it’s all I got
We’re one, but we’re not the same
Well we, hurt each other
Then we do it again

You say
Love is a temple
Love is a higher law
Love is a temple
Love is the higher law
You ask me to enter
Well then you make me crawl
And I can’t be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt

One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters and my
Brothers
One life
But we’re not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One…
One love

U2

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Irish rock band. For other uses, see U2 (disambiguation).
U2
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U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005, from left to right: The Edge; Larry Mullen, Jr. (drumming); Bono; Adam Clayton
Background information
Also known as
  • Feedback (1976-77)
  • The Hype (1977-78)
Origin Dublin, Ireland
Genres Rock, alternative rock,post-punk
Years active 1976–present
Labels Island, Interscope, Mercury
Associated acts Passengers
Website u2.com
Members
Past members See members section

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono (vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).[1] U2’s early sound was rooted inpost-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music. Throughout the group’s musical pursuits, they have maintained a sound built on melodic instrumentals. Their lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal themes and sociopolitical concerns.

The band formed at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency. Within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album Boy. By the mid-1980s, U2 had become a top international act. They were more successful as a touring act than they were at selling records until their 1987 albumThe Joshua Tree which, according to Rolling Stone, elevated the band’s stature “from heroes to superstars”.[2] Reacting to musical stagnation and criticism of their earnest image and musical direction in the late 1980s, U2 reinvented themselves with their 1991 album, Achtung Baby, and the accompanying Zoo TV Tour; they integrated dance, industrial, and alternative rock influences into their sound, and embraced a more ironic and self-deprecating image. They embraced similar experimentation for the remainder of the 1990s with varying levels of success. U2 regained critical and commercial favour in the 2000s with the records All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), which established a more conventional, mainstream sound for the group. Their U2 360° Tour of 2009–2011 is the highest-attended and highest-grossing concert tour in history.

U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the world’s best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide.[3] They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band, and, in 2005, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility. Rolling Stone ranked U2 at number 22 in its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.[4] Throughout their career, as a band and as individuals, they have campaigned for human rights and philanthropic causes, including Amnesty International, the ONE/DATA campaigns, Product Red, War Child and the Edge’s Music Rising.

History[edit]

See also: Timeline of U2

Formation and early years (1976–80)[edit]

The band formed in Dublin on 25 September 1976.[5] Larry Mullen, Jr., then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians for a new band—six people responded. Setting up in his kitchen, Mullen was on drums, with Paul Hewson (Bono) on lead vocals; David Evans (The Edge) and his older brother Dik Evans[6] on guitar; Adam Clayton, a friend of the Evans brothers on bass guitar; and initially Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin, two other friends of Mullen.[7] Mullen later described it as “‘The Larry Mullen Band’ for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge.” Soon after, the group settled on the name “Feedback” because it was one of the few technical terms they knew.[8] Martin did not return after the first practice, and McCormick left the group within a few weeks. Most of the group’s initial material consisted of cover songs, which the band admitted was not their forte.[9] Some of the earliest influences on the band were emergingpunk rock acts, such as The Jam, The Clash, Buzzcocks, and Sex Pistols. The popularity of punk rock convinced the group that musical proficiency was not a prerequisite to being successful.[10]

“We couldn’t believe it. I was completely shocked. We weren’t of an age to go out partying as such but I don’t think anyone slept that night … Really, it was just a great affirmation to win that competition, even though I’ve no idea how good we were or what the competition was really like. But to win at that point was incredibly important for morale and everyone’s belief in the whole project.”

 —The Edge, on winning the CBS competition[11]

In March 1977, the band changed their name to The Hype.[12] Dik Evans, who was older and by this time at college, was becoming the odd man out. The rest of the band was leaning towards the idea of a four-piece ensemble and he was “phased out” in March 1978. During a farewell concert in the Presbyterian Church Hall in Howth, which featured The Hype playing covers, Dik ceremonially walked offstage. The remaining four band members completed the concert playing original material as “U2”.[13] Steve Averill, a punk rock musician (with The Radiators) and family friend of Clayton’s, had suggested six potential names from which the band chose “U2” for its ambiguity and open-ended interpretations, and because it was the name that they disliked the least.[14]

On Saint Patrick’s Day in 1978, U2 won a talent show in Limerick. The prize consisted of £500 and studio time to record a demo which would be heard by CBS Ireland, a record label. This win was an important milestone and affirmation for the fledgling band.[13] U2 recorded their first demo tape at Keystone Studios in Dublin in May 1978.[15] Hot Press magazine was influential in shaping the band’s future; in May, Paul McGuinness, who had earlier been introduced to the band by the publication’s journalist Bill Graham, agreed to be U2’smanager.[16] The group’s first release, an Ireland-only EP entitled Three, was released in September 1979 and was their first Irish chart success.[17] In December 1979, U2 performed in London for their first shows outside Ireland, although they were unable to gain much attention from audiences or critics.[18] In February 1980, their second single “Another Day” was released on the CBS label, but again only for the Irish market.[19]

Boy, October, and War (1980–84)[edit]

Island Records signed U2 in March 1980, and in May the band released “11 O’Clock Tick Tock” as their first international single.[20] The band’s debut album, Boy, followed in October. Produced by Steve Lillywhite, it received generally positive reviews.[21] Although Bono’s unfocused lyrics seemed improvised, they expressed a common theme: the dreams and frustrations of adolescence.[22] The album included the band’s first United States hit single, “I Will Follow“. Boys release was followed by the Boy Tour, U2’s first tour of continental Europe and the United States.[23] Despite being unpolished, these early live performances demonstrated U2’s potential, as critics noted that Bono was a “charismatic” and “passionate” showman.[24]

The band’s second album, October, was released in 1981 and contained overtly spiritual themes. During the album’s recording sessions, Bono and the Edge considered quitting the band due to perceived spiritual conflicts.[25] Bono, the Edge, and Mullen had joined a Christian group in Dublin called the “Shalom Fellowship”, which led them to question the relationship between the Christian faith and the rock and roll lifestyle.[26] Bono and the Edge took time off between tours and decided to leave Shalom in favour of continuing with the band. Recording was further complicated when a briefcase containing working lyrics and musical ideas was lost during a performance at a nightclub in Portland, Oregon.[27][28]The album received mixed reviews and limited radio play. Low sales outside the UK put pressure on their contract with Island and focused the band on improvement.[29]

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“Sunday Bloody Sunday” features a martial drumbeat, raw guitar, and lyrically, a bleak emotionally charged response to violence.

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Resolving their doubts of the October period, U2 released War in February 1983.[30] A record on which the band “turned pacifism itself into a crusade”,[31] Wars sincerity and “rugged” guitar was intentionally at odds with the trendier synthpop of the time.[32] The album included the politically charged “Sunday Bloody Sunday“, in which Bono lyrically tried to contrast the events of Bloody Sunday with Easter Sunday.[33] Rolling Stone magazine wrote that the song showed the band was capable of deep and meaningful songwriting. War was U2’s first album to feature the photography of Anton Corbijn, who remains U2’s principal photographer and has had a major influence on their vision and public image.[34] U2’s first commercial success, War debuted at number one in the UK, and its first single, “New Year’s Day“, was the band’s first hit outside Ireland or the UK.[35]

A black and white image of a light-skinned man with a microphone held to his mouth. He is visible from the chest up and wears a sleeveless black shirt with an opened sleeveless white vest overtop. A small cross is worn around his neck. His black hair is styled into a mullet. The man looks past the camera to the left. A mixture of trees and sky are visible in the background.

Bono performs in Norway during theWar Tour in 1983

On the subsequent War Tour, the band performed sold-out concerts in mainland Europe and the US. The sight of Bono waving a white flag during performances of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” became the tour’s iconic image.[36] U2 recorded the Under a Blood Red Sky live album and the Live at Red Rocks concert film on tour, both of which received extensive play on the radio and MTV, expanding the band’s audience and showcasing their prowess as a live act.[37] With their record deal with Island Records coming to an end, the band signed a more lucrative extension in 1984. They negotiated the return of their copyrights (so that they owned the rights to their own songs), an increase in their royalty rate, and a general improvement in terms, at the expense of a larger initial payment.[38]

The Unforgettable Fire and Live Aid (1984–85)[edit]

“We knew the world was ready to receive the heirs to The Who. All we had to do was to keep doing what we were doing and we would become the biggest band since Led Zeppelin, without a doubt. But something just didn’t feel right. We felt we had more dimension than just the next big anything, we had something unique to offer.”

 —Bono, on The Unforgettable Fires new direction.[39]

The band feared that following the overt rock of the War album and tour, they were in danger of becoming another “shrill”, “sloganeering arena-rock band”.[40] Thus, they sought experimentation for their fourth studio album, The Unforgettable Fire;[41] as Adam Clayton recalls, “We were looking for something that was a bit more serious, more arty.”[39] The Edge admired the ambient and “weird works” of Brian Eno, who, along with his engineer Daniel Lanois, eventually agreed to produce the record.[42]

Partly recorded in Slane Castle, The Unforgettable Fire was released in 1984 and was at the time the band’s most marked change in direction.[43] It was ambient and abstract, and featured a rich, orchestrated sound. Under Lanois’ direction, Mullen’s drumming became looser, funkier, and more subtle, and Clayton’s bass became more subliminal.[44] Complementing the album’s atmospheric sound, the lyrics are open to interpretation, providing what the band called a “very visual feel”.[43] Due to a tight recording schedule, however, Bono felt songs like “Bad” and “Pride (In the Name of Love)” were incomplete “sketches”.[45] The album reached number one in Britain,[46] and was successful in the US.[47] The lead single “Pride (In the Name of Love)”, written about Martin Luther King, Jr., was the band’s biggest hit to that point and was their first song to chart in the US top 40.[48]

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The Unforgettable Fire” has a rich, symphonic sound built from ambient instrumentation, a driving rhythm, and a lyrical “sketch”.[49]

Much of The Unforgettable Fire Tour moved into indoor arenas as U2 began to win their long battle to build their audience.[50]The complex textures of the new studio-recorded tracks, such as “The Unforgettable Fire” and “Bad”, were problematic to translate to live performances.[43] One solution was programmed sequencers, which the band had previously been reluctant to use, but are now used in the majority of the band’s performances.[43] Songs on the album had been criticised as being “unfinished”, “fuzzy”, and “unfocused”, but were better received by critics when played on stage.[51]

U2 participated in the Live Aid concert for Ethiopian famine relief at Wembley Stadium in July 1985.[52] U2’s performance in front of 72,000 fans in the stadium in an event that had a worldwide television audience of two billion people was a pivotal point in the band’s career.[53] During a 14-minute performance of the song “Bad”, Bono leapt down off the stage to embrace and dance with a fan, showing a television audience the personal connection that Bono could make with audiences.[54] In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine called U2 the “Band of the ’80s”, saying that “for a growing number of rock-and-roll fans, U2 have become the band that matters most, maybe even the only band that matters”.[38]

The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum (1986–90)[edit]

“The wild beauty, cultural richness, spiritual vacancy and ferocious violence of America are explored to compelling effect in virtually every aspect of The Joshua Tree—in the title and the cover art, the blues and country borrowings evident in the music … Indeed, Bono says that ‘dismantling the mythology of America’ is an important part ofThe Joshua Trees artistic objective.”

 —Anthony DeCurtis[55]

For their fifth album, The Joshua Tree,[56] the band wanted to build on The Unforgettable Fires textures, but instead of out-of-focus experimentation, they sought a harder-hitting sound within the limitation of conventional song structures.[57] Realising that “U2 had no tradition” and that their knowledge of music from before their childhood was limited, the group delved intoAmerican and Irish roots music.[58] Friendships with Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, and Keith Richards motivated the band to explore blues, folk, and gospel music and focused Bono on his skills as a songwriter and lyricist.[59] U2 interrupted the album sessions in mid-1986 to serve as a headline act on Amnesty International‘s A Conspiracy of Hope tour. Rather than being a distraction, the tour added extra intensity and focus to their new material.[60] Later that year, Bono travelled to San Salvadorand Nicaragua and saw first-hand the distress of peasants bullied in internal conflicts that were subject to US political intervention. The experience became a central influence on the new music.[61]

The tree pictured on The Joshua Tree album sleeve.Adam Clayton said, “The desert was immensely inspirational to us as a mental image for this record.”[62]

The Joshua Tree was released in March 1987. The album juxtaposes antipathy towards US foreign policy against the group’s deep fascination with the country, its open spaces, freedom, and ideals.[63] The band wanted music with a sense of location and a “cinematic” quality, and the record’s music and lyrics draw on imagery created by American writers whose works the band had been reading.[64] The Joshua Tree became the fastest-selling album in British chart history, and topped the Billboard 200 in the United States for nine consecutive weeks.[65] The first two singles, “With or Without You[40] and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For“, quickly became the group’s first number-one hits in the US. They became the fourth rock band to be featured on the cover of Time magazine,[66] which declared that U2 was “Rock’s Hottest Ticket”.[67] The album won U2 their first two Grammy Awards,[68] and it brought the band a new level of success. Many publications, including Rolling Stone, have cited it as one of rock’s greatest.[69] The Joshua Tree Tour was the first tour on which the band played shows in stadiums, alongside smaller arena shows.[70]

The documentary Rattle and Hum featured footage recorded from The Joshua Tree Tour, and the accompanying double album of the same name included nine studio tracks and six live U2 performances. Released in October 1988, the album and film were intended as a tribute to American music;[71] they included recordings at Sun Studios in Memphis and performances with Bob Dylan and B. B. King. Rattle and Hum performed modestly at the box office and received mixed reviews from both film and music critics;[72] one Rolling Stone editor spoke of the album’s “excitement”, another described it as “bombastic and misguided”.[73] The film’s director, Phil Joanou, described it as “an overly pretentious look at U2”.[74] Most of the album’s new material was played on 1989’s Lovetown Tour, which only visited Australasia, Japan and Europe, so as to avoid the critical backlash the group faced in the US. In addition, they had grown dissatisfied with their live performances; Mullen recalled that “We were the biggest, but we weren’t the best”.[75] With a sense of musical stagnation, Bono said to fans on one of the last dates of the tour that it was “the end of something for U2” and that they had to “go away and … just dream it all up again”.[76]

Achtung Baby, Zoo TV, and Zooropa (1990–93)[edit]

“Buzzwords on this record were trashy, throwaway, dark, sexy, and industrial (all good) and earnest, polite, sweet, righteous, rockist and linear (all bad). It was good if a song took you on a journey or made you think your hifi was broken, bad if it reminded you of recording studios or U2 …”

 —Brian Eno, on the recording of Achtung Baby[77]

Stung by the criticism of Rattle and Hum, the band sought to transform themselves musically.[78] Seeking inspiration on the eve of German reunification, they began work on their seventh studio album, Achtung Baby, at Hansa Studios in Berlin in October 1990 with producers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.[79] The sessions were fraught with conflict, as the band argued over their musical direction and the quality of their material. While Clayton and Mullen preferred a sound similar to U2’s previous work, Bono and the Edge were inspired by European industrial music and electronic dance music and advocated a change. Weeks of tension and slow progress nearly prompted the group to break up until they made a breakthrough with the improvised writing of the song “One“.[80] They returned to Dublin in 1991, where morale improved and the majority of the album was completed.

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The Fly” features hip-hop beats, distorted vocals, and a hard industrial edge that differed from U2’s typical sound.[81]

Achtung Baby was released in November 1991. The album represented a calculated change in musical and thematic direction for the group; the shift was one of their most dramatic since The Unforgettable Fire.[82] Sonically, the record incorporated influences from alternative rock, dance, and industrial music of the time, and the band referred to its musical departure as “four men chopping down the Joshua Tree”.[83] Thematically, it was a more introspective and personal record; it was darker, yet at times more flippant than the band’s previous work. Commercially and critically, it has been one of the band’s most successful albums. It produced five hit singles, including “The Fly“, “Mysterious Ways“, and “One”, and it was a crucial part of the band’s early 1990s reinvention.[84] Like The Joshua Tree, many publications have cited the record as one of rock’s greatest.[69]

An elaborate concert stage set bearing a logo that reads "Zoo TV", set in a dark stadium. Towers reach into the night sky, illuminated in blue with red warning lights on top.

The Zoo TV Tour was a multimedia-intensive event, featuring a stage that used dozens of video screens.

Like Achtung Baby, the 1992–1993 Zoo TV Tour was an unequivocal break with the band’s past. In contrast to the austere stage setups of previous U2 tours, Zoo TV was an elaborate multimedia event. It satirised the pervasive nature of television and its blurring of news, entertainment, and home shopping by attempting to instill “sensory overload” in its audience.[83][85][86] The stage featured large video screens that showed visual effects, random video clips from pop culture, and flashing text phrases.[87] Whereas U2 were known for their earnest performances in the 1980s, the group’s Zoo TV performances were intentionally ironic and self-deprecating;[83] on stage, Bono performed as several over-the-top characters, including “The Fly”,[88] “Mirror Ball Man”, and “MacPhisto”.[89] Prank phone calls were made to President Bush, the United Nations, and others. Live satellite link-ups to war-torn Sarajevo caused controversy.[90]

Quickly recorded during a break in the Zoo TV Tour in mid-1993, the Zooropa album expanded on many of the themes from Achtung Baby and the Zoo TV Tour. Initially intended as an EP, Zooropa ultimately evolved into a full-length LP album. It was an even greater departure from the style of their earlier recordings, incorporating further dance influences and other electronic effects.[91] Johnny Cashsang the lead vocals on “The Wanderer“. Most of the songs were played at least once during the 1993 legs of the tour, which visited Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan; half the album’s tracks became permanent fixtures in the setlist.[92] Although the commercially successful Zooropa won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1994, the band regard it with mixed feelings, as they felt it was more of “an interlude”.

On the final leg of the tour, Clayton was unable to perform for the group’s 26 November 1993 show in Sydney, the dress-rehearsal for filming Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, due to a hangover. Bass guitar technician Stuart Morgan filled in for him, marking the first time any member of U2 had missed a show. After the incident, Clayton gave up drinking alcohol.[93]

Passengers, Pop, and PopMart (1994–99)[edit]

In 1995, following a long break, U2 contributed “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” to the soundtrack album of the film Batman Forever. Later that year, the band released anexperimental album called Original Soundtracks 1. Brian Eno, producer of four previous U2 albums, contributed as a full partner, including writing and performing. For this reason and due to the record’s highly experimental nature, the band chose to release it under the moniker “Passengers” to distinguish it from U2’s conventional albums. Mullen said of the album, “There’s a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.”[94] It was commercially unnoticed by U2 standards and it received generally mixed reviews. However, the single “Miss Sarajevo” featuring Luciano Pavarotti, was among Bono’s favourite U2 songs.[95]

“It’s not enough to write a great lyric; it’s not enough to have a good idea or a great hook, lots of things have to come together and then you have to have the ability to discipline and screen. We should give this album to a re-mixer, go back to what was originally intended …”

 —Bono, on Pop[96]

On 1997’s Pop, U2 continued experimenting with dance club culture; tape loops, programming, rhythm sequencing, andsampling provided much of the album with heavy, funky dance rhythms.[97] Released in March, the album debuted at number one in 35 countries and drew mainly positive reviews.[98] Rolling Stone, for example, stated that U2 had “defied the odds and made some of the greatest music of their lives”;[99] others felt that the album was a major disappointment. Sales were poor compared to previous U2 releases.[100] The band was hurried into completing the album in time for the impending pre-booked tour, and Bono admitted that the album “didn’t communicate the way it was intended to”.[101]

The PopMart Tour stage featured a golden arch, mirrorball lemon, and, at the time, the largest LED screen in the world.

The subsequent tour, PopMart, commenced in April 1997. Like Zoo TV, it poked fun at pop culture and was intended as a send-up of commercialism. The stage included a 100-foot (30 m) tall golden yellow arch (reminiscent of the McDonald’s logo), a 150-foot (46 m) long video screen, and a 40-foot (12 m) tall mirrorball lemon. U2’s “big shtick” failed, however, to satisfy many who were seemingly confused by the band’s new kitsch image and elaborate sets.[102] The postponement of Pops release date to complete the album meant rehearsal time for the tour was severely reduced, and performances in early shows suffered.[103] Despite the mixed reviews and difficulties of the tour, Bono considered PopMart to be “better than Zoo TV aesthetically, and as an art project it is a clearer thought.”[104] He later explained, “When that show worked, it was mindblowing.”[105] A highlight of the tour was the concert in Sarajevo where U2 were the first major group to perform there following the Bosnian War.[106] Mullen described the concert as “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.”[107]Bono called the show “one of the toughest and one of the sweetest nights of my life”.[108] One month after the conclusion of the PopMart Tour, U2 appeared on the 200th episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, “Trash of the Titans“, in which Homer Simpson disrupted the band on stage during a PopMart concert.[109]

“Reapplying for the job of the best band in the world” (2000–06)[edit]

U2 perform during the Elevation Tour in Kansas City, 2001

Following the relatively disappointing reception of Pop, U2 declared they were “reapplying for the job … [of] the best band in the world”.[110]The group’s tenth album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, was released in October 2000 and was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. The record signaled a return to a more mainstream, conventional rock sound for the group mixed with the influences of their 1990s musical explorations.[111] For many of those not won over by the band’s 1990s music, it was considered a return to grace;[112]Rolling Stone called it U2’s “third masterpiece” alongside The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby.[113] The album debuted at number one in 32 countries,[114] and its worldwide hit single, “Beautiful Day“, earned three Grammy Awards. The album’s other three singles, “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of“, “Elevation” and “Walk On“, also won Grammy Awards.

For the Elevation Tour of 2001, U2 performed in a scaled-down setting, returning to arenas after nearly a decade of stadium productions. A heart-shaped ramp around the stage permitted greater proximity to the audience. During the tour, the group headlined a pair of Slane Concerts in Ireland, playing to crowds of 80,000.[115][116] Following the September 11 attacks, All That You Can’t Leave Behind found added resonance with audiences,[69][117] and in October, U2 performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the first time since the attacks. Bono and the Edge later said these shows were among their most memorable and emotional performances.[118] In February 2002, U2 performed during the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVI[119] and paid tribute to the victims of September 11. SI.com and Rolling Stone ranked their performance as the best halftime show in Super Bowl history.[120][121]

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Vertigo“, with its aggressive riff, became a hit worldwide and was used in a cross-promotion with Apple.

U2’s eleventh studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, was released in November 2004. The band were looking for a harder-hitting rock sound than All That You Can’t Leave Behind. Thematically, Bono stated that “a lot of the songs are paeans to naiveté, a rejection of knowingness.”[122] The first single, “Vertigo“, was featured in an internationally aired television commercial for the Apple iPod; a U2 iPod and an iTunes-exclusive U2 box set were released as part of a promotion with Apple. The album debuted at number one in the US, where first-week sales of 840,000 nearly doubled those of All That You Can’t Leave Behind, setting a personal best for the band.[123] Claiming it as a contender as one of U2’s three best albums, Bono said, “There are no weak songs. But as an album, the whole isn’t greater than the sum of its parts, and it fucking annoys me.”[122] The Vertigo Tour featured a setlist that varied more across dates than any U2 tour since the Lovetown Tour, and it included songs not played since the early 1980s. Like the Elevation Tour, the Vertigo Tour was a commercial success.[124] The album and its singles won Grammy Awards in all eight categories in which U2 were nominated. In 2005, Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[125] A 3-D concert film, U2 3D, filmed at nine concerts during the Latin American and Australian legs of the Vertigo Tour was released in theatres on 23 January 2008.

In August 2006, the band incorporated its publishing business in the Netherlands following the capping of Irish artists’ tax exemption at €250,000.[126] The Edge stated that businesses often seek to minimise their tax burdens.[127] The move was criticised in the Irish parliament.[127][128] The band defended themselves, saying approximately 95% of their business took place outside Ireland, that they were taxed globally because of this, and that they were all “personal investors and employers in the country”.[129] Bono would later say, “I think U2’s tax business is our own business and I think it is not just to the letter of the law but to the spirit of the law.”[130]

No Line on the Horizon and U2 360° Tour (2006–2013)[edit]

A concert stage; four large legs curve up above the stage and hold a video screen which is extended down to the band. The legs are lit up in green. The video screen has multi-coloured lights flashing on it. The audience surrounds the stage on all sides.

The stage structure from the U2 360° Tour, the largest ever constructed, allowed for a 360-degree seating configuration.

Recording for U2’s twelfth album, No Line on the Horizon, began with producer Rick Rubin in 2006, but the sessions were short-lived and the material was shelved. In June 2007, the band began new sessions with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, who contributed not only as producers, but for the first time with U2, as songwriters as well.[131] In March 2008, the band signed a 12-year deal with Live Nation worth an estimated $100 million (£50 million),[132] which includes Live Nation controlling the band’s merchandise, sponsoring, and their official website.[133] Recording on the album lasted through December 2008 in the US, the UK, Ireland, and Fez, Morocco, where the band explored North African music. Intended as a more experimental work than their previous two albums,[134] No Line on the Horizon was released in February 2009 and received generally positive reviews, including their first five-star Rolling Stone review. Critics, however, did not find it to be as experimental as originally billed. The album debuted at number one in over 30 countries,[135] but its sales of 5 million were seen as a disappointment by U2 standards and it did not contain a hit single.[136][137]

The group embarked on the U2 360° Tour in June 2009. The concerts featured the band playing stadiums “in the round” on a circular stage, allowing the audience to surround them on all sides.[138] To accommodate the stage configuration, a large four-legged structure nicknamed “The Claw” was built above the stage, with the sound system and a cylindrical, expanding video screen on top of it. At 50 meters (165 feet) tall, it was the largest stage ever constructed.[139] The tour visited Europe and North America in 2009. At year’s end, Rolling Stone named U2 one of eight “Artists of the Decade”.[140] The group’s tours ranked them second in total concert grosses for the decade behind only the Rolling Stones, although U2 had a significantly higher attendance figure. They were the only band in the top 25 touring acts of the 2000s to sell out every show they played.[141] U2 resumed the 360° Tour in 2010 with legs in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. However, their scheduled headline appearance at theGlastonbury Festival 2010 and their North American leg that year were postponed following a serious injury to Bono’s back.[142][143][144] These appearances were rescheduled for 2011 after the South African and South American legs of the tour.[145] By its conclusion in July 2011, U2 360° had set records for the highest-grossing concert tour with $736 million in ticket sales, and for the highest-attended tour with over 7.2 million tickets sold.[146]

Following the release of No Line on the Horizon, U2 announced tentative plans for a follow-up record of songs from the album’s sessions entitled Songs of Ascent. Bono described the project as “a meditative, reflective piece of work” with the theme of pilgrimage.[147][148] However, the group could not complete it to their satisfaction, and ultimately it did not come to fruition.[149] The band continued to work on other album projects,[150] including a traditional rock album produced by Danger Mouse and a dance-centric album produced by RedOne and will.i.am.[151][152]

Songs of Innocence and Innocence + Experience Tour (2013–present)[edit]

U2 performing at the Apple product launch in September 2014 at whichSongs of Innocence was announced

U2 suspended work on their next album late in 2013 to contribute a new song, “Ordinary Love“, to the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.[153][154] The track, written in honour of Nelson Mandela, won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[153][155] In November 2013, U2’s long-time manager Paul McGuinness stepped down from his post as part of a deal with Live Nation to acquire his management firm, Principle Management. McGuinness, who had managed U2 for over 30 years, was succeeded by Guy Oseary.[156] In February 2014, another new song, the single “Invisible“, was debuted in a Super Bowl television advertisement and was made available in the iTunes Store at no cost to launch a partnership with Product Red and Bank of America to fight AIDS.[157][158] Bono called the track a “sneak preview” of its pending record.[159]

On 9 September 2014, U2 announced their thirteenth studio album, Songs of Innocence, at an Apple product launch event, and released it digitally the same day to all iTunes Store customers at no cost.[160] The release made the album available to over 500 million iTunes customers in what Apple CEO Tim Cook called “the largest album release of all time.”[161] Apple reportedly paid Universal Music Groupand U2 a lump sum for a five-week exclusivity period in which to distribute the album[162] and spent $100 million on a promotional campaign.[161] Produced by Danger Mouse with Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney and long-time collaborator Flood, Songs of Innocence recalls the group members’ youth in Ireland, touching on childhood experiences, loves and losses, while paying tribute to musical inspirations. Bono described it as “the most personal album we’ve written.”[163] The record received mixed reviews and drew criticism for its digital release strategy; it was automatically added to users’ iTunes accounts, which for many, triggered an unprompted download to their devices.[164][165][166] The group’s press tour for the album was interrupted after Bono was seriously injured in a bicycle accident in Central Park on 16 November 2014. Suffering fractures of his shoulder blade, humerus, orbit, and pinky finger,[167] Bono said he was uncertain that he would ever be able to play guitar again.[168]

U2 taking a curtain call after a November 2015 concert on theInnocence + Experience Tour

In May 2015, U2 embarked on the Innocence + Experience Tour.[169] Comprising 76 shows,[170] the tour visited arenas in North America and Europe from May through December.[171] The group structured their concerts around a loose narrative of “innocence” passing into “experience”, with a fixed set of songs for the first half of each show and a varying second half, separated by an intermission–a first for U2 concerts.[172] The stage spanned the length of the venue floor and was divided into three sections: a rectangular main stage, a smaller circular B-stage, and a walkway between them.[172] A 96-foot-long double-sided video screen was suspended above and parallel to the walkway; the structure featured an interior catwalk between the screens, allowing the band members to perform amidst the video projections.[173][174] U2’s sound system was moved to the venue ceilings and arranged in an oval array, in hopes of improving acoustics by evenly distributing sound throughout the arena.[172] In total, the tour grossed $152.2 million from 1.29 million tickets sold.[175] The final date of the tour, one of two Paris shows rescheduled due to the November 2015 Paris attacks, was filmed for broadcast on the American television network HBO.[176][177]

Musical style[edit]

Instrumentation[edit]

U2 performing on a concert stage.

U2 performing in 2009. The Edge has described U2 as a fundamentally live band.

Since their inception, U2 have developed and maintained a distinctly recognisable sound, with emphasis on melodic instrumentals and expressive, larger-than-life vocals.[178] This approach is rooted partly in the early influence of record producer Steve Lillywhite at a time when the band was not known for musical proficiency.[179] The Edge has consistently used a rhythmic echo and a signaturedelay[180] to craft his distinctive guitar work, coupled with an Irish-influenced drone played against his syncopated melodies[181] that ultimately yields a well-defined ambient, chiming sound. Bono has nurtured his falsetto operatic voice[182] and has exhibited a notable lyrical bent towards social, political, and personal subject matter while maintaining a grandiose scale in his songwriting. In addition, the Edge has described U2 as a fundamentally live band.[181]

Despite these broad consistencies, U2 have introduced brand new elements into their musical repertoire with each new album. U2’s early sound was influenced by bands such as Television and Joy Division, and has been described as containing a “sense of exhilaration” that resulted from the Edge’s “radiant chords” and Bono’s “ardent vocals”.[183] U2’s sound began with post-punk roots and minimalistic and uncomplicated instrumentals heard on Boy and October, but evolved through War to include aspects of rock anthem, funk, and dance rhythms to become more versatile and aggressive.[184]Boy and War were labelled “muscular and assertive” by Rolling Stone,[40] influenced in large part by Lillywhite’s producing. The Unforgettable Fire, which began with the Edge playing more keyboards than guitars, as well as follow-up The Joshua Tree, had Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois at the production helm. With their influence, both albums achieved a “diverse texture”.[40] The songs from The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum placed more emphasis on Lanois-inspired rhythm as they mixed distinct and varied styles of gospel and blues music, which stemmed from the band’s burgeoning fascination with America’s culture, people and places. In the 1990s, U2 reinvented themselves as they began using synthesisers, distortion, and electronic beats derived from alternative rock, industrial music, dance, and hip-hop on Achtung Baby,[185] Zooropa, and Pop.[186] In the 2000s, U2 returned to a more stripped-down sound, with more conventional rhythms and reduced usage of synthesisers and effects.[187]

Lyrics and themes[edit]

U2’s lyrics are known for their social and political commentary, and are often embellished with Christian and spiritual imagery.[188] Songs such as “Sunday Bloody Sunday“, “Silver and Gold”, and “Mothers of the Disappeared” were motivated by current events of the time. The first was written about the Troubles in Northern Ireland,[189] while the last concerns the struggle of a group of women whose children were killed or forcibly disappeared at the hands of the El Salvadoran government during the country’s civil war.[190]The song “Running to Stand Still” from The Joshua Tree was inspired by the heroin addiction that was sweeping through Dublin—the lyric “I see seven towers, but I only see one way out” references the Ballymun Towers of Northern Dublin and the imagery throughout the song personifies the struggles of addiction.[191]

Bono’s personal conflicts and turmoil inspired songs like “Mofo“, “Tomorrow” and “Kite“. An emotional yearning or pleading frequently appears as a lyrical theme,[178] in tracks such as “Yahweh“,[192]Peace on Earth“, and “Please“. Much of U2’s songwriting and music is also motivated by contemplations of loss and anguish, coupled with hopefulness and resiliency, themes that are central to The Joshua Tree.[40] Some of these lyrical ideas have been amplified by Bono and the band’s personal experiences during their youth in Ireland, as well as Bono’s campaigning and activism later in his life. U2 have used tours such as Zoo TV and PopMart to caricature social trends, such as media overload and consumerism, respectively.[186]

While the band and its fans often affirm the political nature of their music, U2’s lyrics and music have been criticised as apolitical because of their vagueness and “fuzzy imagery”, and a lack of any specific references to actual people or characters.[193]

Influences[edit]

The band cites The Who,[194] The Clash,[195] Television, Ramones,[196] The Beatles,[197] Joy Division,[198] Siouxsie and the Banshees,[199] Elvis Presley,[200] Patti Smith,[201] andKraftwerk[202] as influences. In addition, Van Morrison has been cited by Bono as an influence[203] and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame points out his influence on U2.[204] U2 have also worked with and/or had influential relationships with artists including Johnny Cash, Green Day, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, B.B. King, Lou Reed and Luciano Pavarotti.[205]

Campaigning and activism[edit]

Bono with then-US PresidentGeorge W. Bush in 2006

Since the early 1980s, the members of U2—as a band and individually—have collaborated with other musicians, artists, celebrities, and politicians to address issues concerning poverty, disease, and social injustice.

In 1984, Bono and Adam Clayton participated in Band Aid to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. This initiative produced the hit charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“, which would be the first among several collaborations between U2 and Bob Geldof. In July 1985, U2 played Live Aid, a follow-up to Band Aid’s efforts. Bono and his wife Ali, invited by World Vision, later visited Ethiopia where they witnessed the famine first hand. Bono would later say this laid the groundwork for his Africa campaigning and some of his songwriting.[110][187]

In 1986, U2 participated in the A Conspiracy of Hope tour in support of Amnesty International and in Self Aid for unemployment in Ireland. The same year, Bono and Ali Hewson also visited Nicaragua and El Salvador at the invitation of the Sanctuary movement, and saw the effects of the El Salvador Civil War. These 1986 events greatly influenced The Joshua Tree album, which was being recorded at the time.[60][61]

In 1992, the band participated in the “Stop Sellafield” concert with Greenpeace during their Zoo TV tour.[206] Events in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War inspired the song “Miss Sarajevo“, which premiered at a September 1995 Pavarotti and Friends show, and which Bono and the Edge performed at War Child.[207] A promise made in 1993 was kept when the band played in Sarajevo as part of 1997’s PopMart Tour.[208] In 1998, they performed in Belfast days prior to the vote on the Good Friday Agreement, bringing Northern Irish political leaders David Trimble and John Hume on stage to promote the agreement.[209] Later that year, all proceeds from the release of the “Sweetest Thing” single went towards supporting the Chernobyl Children’s Project.

U2 with Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in 2011 (from left to right): Mullen, Bono, Rousseff, Clayton, and the Edge

In 2001, the band dedicated “Walk On” to Burma‘s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.[210] In late 2003, Bono and the Edge participated in the South Africa HIV/AIDS awareness 46664 series of concerts hosted by Nelson Mandela.[211] The band played 2005’sLive 8 concert in London. The band and manager Paul McGuinness were awarded Amnesty International‘s Ambassador of Conscience Award for their work in promoting human rights.[212]

Since 2000, Bono’s campaigning has included Jubilee 2000 with Bob Geldof, Muhammad Ali, and others to promote the cancellation ofthird-world debt during the Great Jubilee. In January 2002, Bono co-founded the multinational NGO DATA, with the aim of improving the social, political, and financial state of Africa. He continued his campaigns for debt and HIV/AIDS relief into June 2002 by making high-profile visits to Africa.[213]

Product Red, a 2006 for-profit brand seeking to raise money for the Global Fund, was founded, in part, by Bono. The ONE Campaign, originally the US counterpart of Make Poverty History, was shaped by his efforts and vision.

In late 2005, following Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, the Edge helped introduce Music Rising, an initiative to raise funds for musicians who lost their instruments in the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast.[214] In 2006, U2 collaborated with pop punk band Green Day to record a remake of the song “The Saints Are Coming” by The Skids to benefit Music Rising.[215] A live version of the song recorded at the Louisiana Superdome was released on the single.

At the 3rd iHeartRadio Music Awards in April 2016, U2 were honored with the Innovator Award for “their impact on popular culture and commitment to social causes.”[216]

U2’s and Bono’s social activism have not been without its critics, however. Several authors and activists who publish in politically left journals such as CounterPunch have decried Bono for allowing his celebrity to be co-opted by an association with political figures such as Paul Wolfowitz,[217] as well as his “essential paternalism”.[218] Other news sources have more generally questioned the efficacy of Bono’s campaign to relieve debt and provide assistance to Africa.[219] Tax and development campaigners have also criticised the band’s move from Ireland to the Netherlands to reduce its tax bill.[220]

Other projects[edit]

The members of U2 have undertaken a number of side projects, sometimes in collaboration with some of their bandmates. In 1985, Bono recorded the song “In a Lifetime” with the Irish band Clannad. The Edge recorded a solo soundtrack album for the film Captive in 1986,[221] which included a vocal performance by Sinéad O’Connor that predates her own debut album by a year. Bono and the Edge wrote the song “She’s a Mystery to Me” for Roy Orbison, which was featured on his 1989 album Mystery Girl.[222] In 1990, Bono and the Edge provided the soundtrack to the Royal Shakespeare Company London stage version of A Clockwork Orange (one track, “Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk/Korova 1”, was on the b-side to “The Fly” single).[223][224] That same year, Mullen co-wrote and produced a song for the Republic of Ireland national football team in time for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, called “Put ‘Em Under Pressure“, which topped the Irish charts for 13 weeks.[225]

Together with the Edge, Bono wrote the song “GoldenEye” for the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, which was performed by Tina Turner.[226] Clayton and Mullen reworked the “Theme from Mission: Impossible” for the franchise’s 1996 film.[227] Bono loaned his voice to “Joy” on Mick Jagger‘s 2001 album Goddess in the Doorway.[228] Bono also recorded a spare, nearly spoken-word version of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah” for the Tower of Song compilation in 1995. Additionally, in 1998, Bono collaborated with Kirk Franklin andCrystal Lewis along with R. Kelly and Mary J. Blige for a successful gospel song called “Lean on Me”.

Aside from musical collaborations, U2 have worked with several authors. American author William S. Burroughs had a guest appearance in U2’s video for “Last Night on Earth” shortly before he died.[229] His poem “A Thanksgiving Prayer” was used as video footage during the band’s Zoo TV Tour. Other collaborators include William Gibson and Allen Ginsberg.[230] In early 2000, the band recorded three songs for The Million Dollar Hotel movie soundtrack, including “The Ground Beneath Her Feet“, which was co-written bySalman Rushdie and motivated by his book of the same name.[231]

In 2007, Bono appeared in the movie Across the Universe and performed Beatles songs. Bono and the Edge also wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Additionally, the Edge created the theme song for Season 1 and 2 of the animated television series The Batman.[232]

Legacy[edit]

The Edge and Bono clothed in leather jackets, as the The Edge holds a guitar vertically. A large dangling light bulb hangs between them.

Rolling Stone ranked the Edge and Bono among the greatest guitarists and singers, respectively.

U2 have sold more than 150 million records as of 2010, placing them among the best-selling music artists in history.[233] With 52 million certified units by the RIAA, U2 rank as the 21st-highest-selling music artist in the US.[234] The group’s fifth studio album The Joshua Treeis one of the best-selling albums in the US (10 million copies shipped) and worldwide (25 million copies sold).[235][236] Forbes estimates that U2 earned US$78 million between May 2011 and May 2012, making them the fourth-highest-paid musical artist.[237] According toBillboard Boxscore, the band grossed $1.67 billion in ticket sales from 1990 to 2016, second only to the Rolling Stones.[238] The Sunday Times Rich List 2013 estimated the group’s collective wealth at €632,535,925.[239]

Rolling Stone placed U2 at number 22 on its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”,[4] while ranking Bono the 32nd-greatest singer[240] and the Edge the 38th-greatest guitarist.[241] In 2004, Q ranked U2 as the fourth-biggest band in a list compiled based on album sales, time spent on the UK charts, and largest audience for a headlining show.[242] A 2011 readers’ poll in Q named U2 the Greatest Act of the Last 25 Years.[243] VH1 placed U2 at number 19 on its 2010 list of “The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time”.[244] In 2010, eight of U2’s songs appeared on Rolling Stones updated list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time“, with “One” ranking the highest at number 36.[245]Five of the group’s twelve studio albums were ranked on the magazine’s 2012 list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time“—The Joshua Tree placed the highest at number 26.[69] Reflecting on the band’s popularity and worldwide impact, Jeff Pollack for The Huffington Postsaid, “like The Who before them, U2 wrote songs about things that were important and resonated with their audience”.[246]

U2 received their first Grammy Award in 1988 for The Joshua Tree, and they have won 22 in total out of 34 nominations, more than any other group.[68][247] These include Best Rock Duo or Group, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Rock Album. The British Phonographic Industry has awarded U2 seven BRIT Awards, five of these being for Best International Group. In Ireland, U2 have won 14 Meteor Awards since the awards began in 2001. Other awards include one AMA, four VMAs, eleven Q Awards, two Juno Awards, three NME Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards. The band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in early 2005.[125] In 2006, all four members of the band received ASCAP awards for writing the songs, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” and “Vertigo”.[248]

Members[edit]

Principal members
  • Bono – vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica (1976–present)
  • The Edge – lead guitar, keyboards, vocals (1976–present)
  • Adam Clayton – bass guitar (1976–present)
  • Larry Mullen, Jr. – drums, percussion (1976–present)
Early members
  • Dik Evans – guitar (1976–1978)
  • Ivan McCormick – guitar (1976)

Discography[edit]

Studio albums

Concert tours[edit]

Dennis Sheehan was U2’s tour manager for over 30 years until his death in May 2015.[249]

References[edit]

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Mary J. Blige

Está melhorando,
Ou você ainda sente a mesma coisa?
As coisas vão ficar mais fáceis para você
agora que você tem alguém para culpar?

Você diz um amor, uma vida (uma vida)
Quando é alguém que à noite precisa
De um amor, temos que compartilha-lo
Ele te abandona, baby, se você não cuida dele

Mary

Eu te decepcionei?
Ou deixei um gosto ruim em sua boca?
Você age como quem nunca teve um amor
E quer que eu continue sem nenhum

Bem, é muito tarde, esta noite
Para trazer o passado à tona
Somos um, mas não somos os mesmos
Temos que carregar um ao outro
Carregar um ao outro
Como um só…

Você veio aqui pelo perdão?
Você veio levantar os mortos?
Você veio aqui brincar de Jesus
para os leprosos em sua cabeça?

Bem, eu te pedi muito? Mais do que devia?
Você não me deu nada, agora é tudo que eu tenho
Somos um, mas não somos os mesmos
Bem, nós ferimos um ao outro
E estamos fazendo de novo

Você diz
O amor é um templo
O amor é a lei suprema
O amor é um templo
O amor é a lei suprema
Você me pede para entrar
E então você me faz rastejar
E eu não posso continuar me agarrando
ao que você tem
Quando tudo que você tem são feridas

Um amor
Um sangue
Uma vida
Você tem que fazer o que deve
Uma vida
Entre si
Irmãs e meus
Irmãos
Uma vida
Mas não somos os mesmos
Temos que carregar um ao outro
Carregar um ao outro
Carregar um ao outro

Como um só…
Um amor

Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre.
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U2
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Integrantes do U2 da esquerda para direita
Topo: Bono e The Edge
Abaixo: Adam Clayton e Larry Mullen Jr.
Informação geral
Origem Dublin, Leinster
País  Irlanda
Gênero(s)
Período em atividade 1976–presente
Gravadora(s)
Afiliação(ões) Passengers
Página oficial u2.com
Integrantes Bono
Adam Clayton
The Edge
Larry Mullen Jr.
Ex-integrantes Dik Evans
Ivan McCormick

U2 é uma banda irlandesa de rock formada no ano de 1976. O grupo é composto por Bono (vocal e guitarra), The Edge (guitarra,teclado e backing vocal), Adam Clayton (baixo) e Larry Mullen Jr. (bateria e percussão). O som do U2, inicialmente enraizado nopós-punk, eventualmente cresceu para incorporar influências de muitos gêneros da música popular. Ao longo das mudanças do grupo, eles sempre têm mantido um som construído sobre instrumentos melódicos, com destaque para as texturas e acordes do guitarrista de The Edge e dos vocais expressivos de Bono. Suas letras, muitas vezes embelezadas com imagens espirituais, têm foco em temas pessoais e preocupações sócio-políticas.

O U2 foi formado no Mount Temple Comprehensive School quando os membros eram ainda adolescentes e com conhecimento musical limitado. Após quatro anos, eles assinaram com a gravadora Island Records e lançaram seu álbum de estreia, Boy(1980). Em meados da década de 1980, tornaram-se uma banda de sucesso internacional. Foram mais bem sucedidos com suas performances ao vivo do que com a venda dos álbuns, até lançarem o álbum The Joshua Tree (1987),[1] que, segundo a Rolling Stone, elevou a banda à estatura de “heróis para super-estrelas”.[2] Reagindo à estagnação musical no final da década de 1980, à crítica de sua séria imagem e de sua transformação musical, o grupo se reinventou com o álbum Achtung Baby (1991), e o acompanhamento da turnê Zoo TV Tour. A banda integrou influências de dance music, música industrial e rock alternativo em seu estilo musical e performances, abraçando uma imagem mais irônica e auto-depreciativa. A experimentação continuou durante o resto da década de 1990 com níveis mistos de sucesso. O U2 recuperou a seu favor os fãs e os elogios dos críticos musicais logo após o lançamento de All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000) e How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), que estabeleceu um som tradicional mais convencional para a banda. Em 2009 a 2011, a U2 360° Tour foi a turnê mais bem sucedida, liderando oranking da digressão com maior vendas de bilheteria da história.

O grupo lançou 13 álbuns de estúdio e está na lista dos artistas com maior venda de álbuns do mundo, tendo vendido mais de 170 milhões de discos mundialmente.[3] Ganharam 22 Prémios Grammy, mais do que qualquer outra banda. Em 2005 o grupo foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A Rolling Stone classificou o U2 na posição de número 22 na lista dos “100 Maiores Artistas de Todos os Tempos”, classificando-o a “Maior Banda do Mundo”.[4] Por toda sua carreira, como banda e como indivíduos, fizeram campanhas pelos direitos humanos e causas filantrópicas, incluindo a Anistia Internacional, as campanhas ONE/DATA, Product Red, War Child e The Edge no Music Rising (2005).

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Formação e primeiros anos (1976–1978)[editar | editar código-fonte]

“Não podia acreditar, fiquei sem o que dizer. Nós não estávamos em idade de sairmos para se divertir, mas eu acho que ninguém conseguiu dormir naquela noite… Realmente, era apenas uma grande confirmação de ganhar essa competição, mesmo que eu não tivesse tido uma boa ideia; realmente gostei da concorrência. Mas para ganhar naquele momento, era extremamente importante para a moral e a crença de todos os envolvidos no projeto”.

— The Edge, ao vencer a competição da CBS.[5]

A banda foi formada em 25 de setembro de 1976.[6] Larry Mullen Jr., com quatorze anos de idade, postou um anúncio na escola Mount Temple Comprehensive High, em busca de músicos para uma nova banda; tendo a resposta de seis pessoas. Mullen ficou encarregado da bateria, com Paul “Bono” Hewson nos vocais; David “The Edge” Evans e seu irmão mais velho Dik Evans na guitarra; Adam Clayton, um amigo dos irmãos Evans no baixo; e inicialmente Ivan McCormick e Peter Martin, dois outros amigos de Mullen.[7] Mullen disse mais tarde como mandou no “The Larry Mullen’s Band” por cerca de 10 minutos, e em seguida, Bono entrou e destruiu qualquer chance que ele tinha de estar no comando”.[8] Logo depois, o grupo denominou o nome do grupo de “Feedback”, porque era um dos poucos termos técnicos que eles conheciam.[9] Martin não retornou após o primeiro ensaio, e McCormick deixou o grupo dentro de algumas semanas. A maioria do material inicial do grupo era composto por covers, que a banda admitiu não ser seu ponto forte.[10] Algumas das primeiras influências sobre a banda foram surgindo no gênero punk rock, tais como The Jam, The Clash, The Buzzcocks e The Sex Pistols. A popularidade do punk rock convenceu o grupo que o conhecimento musical não era um pré-requisito para ser bem sucedido.[11]

Apresentação da banda tocando em Glasgow,Escócia, em 2015.

Em março de 1977, a banda mudou seu nome para The Hype.[8] [12] Dik Evans, que era o irmão mais velho e também por já estar na faculdade, estava se tornando um integrante excluído em relação à banda. O resto do grupo seguia um pensamento de uma banda com quatro integrantes, sendo mais tarde, resultando na saída de Dik em março de 1978. Durante um concerto de despedida no salão da Igreja Presbiteriana, em Howth, contou com o grupo tocando covers, com Dik cerimonialmente saindo do palco. Os quatro membros restantes da banda completaram o concerto tocando o material original como “U2”.[13] Steve Averill, um músico punk rock e amigo da família de Clayton, sugeriu seis nomes em potencial, a partir do qual, a banda optou por “U2”, devido à sua ambiguidade, possibilidade de interpretações, e também porque era um nome que no mínimo, não gostavam de The Hype.[14]

No Dia de São Patrício, 17 de março de 1978, o U2 venceu em um show de talentos, em Limerick, Irlanda. O prêmio consistia em quinhentos euros, e tempo de gravar um demo em estúdio, que seria ouvido pela CBS da Irlanda, uma gravadora. Esta vitória foi um marco importante e de afirmação para a banda principiante.[13] O U2 gravou sua primeira fita demo no Keystone Studio, em Dublin, em maio de 1978.[15] A revista Hot Press foi influente na formação do futuro da banda; em maio, Paul McGuinness, que já havia sido introduzido à banda pela publicação do jornalista Bill Graham, concordou em ser o empresário da banda.[16]

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Antecedentes, Boy, October e War (1979–1983)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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O primeiro lançamento da banda, somente na Irlanda, foi um EP intitulado Three, sendo lançado em setembro de 1979, e foi um sucesso nas paradas musicais irlandesa.[17] Em dezembro de 1979, a banda realizou em Londres, os seus primeiros shows fora da Irlanda, embora eles não tivéssem a capacidade de ganhar a atenção do público e dos críticos musicais.[18] Em fevereiro de 1980, foi lançado o seu primeiro single, “Another Day“, pela gravadora CBS. Entretanto, o single foi direcionado somente para o mercado irlandês.[19]

Apresentação de Bono na Noruega durante a turnê War Tour, em 1983.

A gravadora Island Records assinou com a banda em março de 1980, e em maio a banda lançou o seu segundo single, “11 O’Clock Tick Tock“, e primeiro single lançado internacionalmente.[20] O álbum de estreia da banda, Boy (1980), foi lançado em outubro. Produzido porSteve Lillywhite, recebeu críticas positivas.[21] Embora as letras sem objetivo de Bono parecessem improvisadas, eles expressaram um tema comum: os sonhos e frustrações da adolescência.[22] O álbum incluía o primeiro single de sucesso da banda nos Estados Unidos, “I Will Follow“. O lançamento de Boy foi seguida pela turnê Boy Tour, a primeira turnê do U2 pelo continente europeu e nos Estados Unidos.[23] Apesar de ter sido rude, os concertos demonstraram o potencial da banda, com os críticos dizendo que Bono era “carismático” e um grande homem apaixonado.[24]

O segundo álbum da banda, October, foi lançado em 1981, contendo amplos temas espirituais. Durante as sessões de gravação, Bono e The Edge consideraram a possibilidade em deixar a banda devido a percepção de conflitos religiosos.[25] Bono, The Edge e Mullen tinham se juntado em um grupo cristão em Dublin, chamado Shalom Fellowship, que os levando-os a questionar a relação entre a fé cristã e o estilo de vida no rock n’ roll.[26] Bono e The Edge tiraram tempo entre as turnês e decidiram deixar o grupo cristão, em favor de continuar com a banda. A gravação foi ainda mais complicada com o roubo de uma maleta contendo as letras para várias canções de trabalho dos bastidores durante a apresentação da banda, em uma boate emPortland, Oregon.[27] O álbum recebeu críticas mistas e pouco tocadas nas rádios. O baixo número de vendas fora do Reino Unido colocou muita pressão sobre o seu contrato com a gravadora Island Records, centrado na melhoria da banda.[28]

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“Sunday Bloody Sunday” traz uma batida militar, uma guitarra crua e, liricamente, uma emoção triste carregada pela luta do Domingo Sangrento, na Irlanda.

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Resolvendo as suas dúvidas do período de October (1981), a banda lançou War, em 1983.[29] Um álbum onde a banda transformou o “pacifismo em uma cruzada“,[30] a franqueza na inflexibilidade no modo de tocar da guitarra em War, foi intencionalmente contraditório com o synthpop da época.[31] O álbum incluía o singleSunday Bloody Sunday“, uma canção com um contexto político, onde Bono líricamente tentou contrastar os acontecimentos do Domingo Sangrento (1972) com oDomingo de Páscoa.[32] A revista Rolling Stone descreveu que a música mostrava que a banda tinha capacidade de compôr canções profundas e significativas. War foi o primeiro álbum do U2 a apresentar a fotografia de Anton Corbijn, que permanece até atualmente como um dos fotógrafos do U2, tendo uma grande influência sobre sua visão e imagem política.[33] O primeiro sucesso comercial da banda, War, estreou na posição de número 1 no Reino Unido, e seu primeiro singleNew Year’s Day“, foi o primeiro sucesso da banda fora da Irlanda ou do Reino Unido.[34]

Na subsequente War Tour, a banda realizou concertos lotados no continente europeu e nos Estados Unidos. A visão de Bono acenando uma bandeira branca durante as performances de “Sunday Bloody Sunday” tornou-se uma imagem ícone da turnê.[35] O U2 gravou o álbum ao vivo nesta turnê,Under a Blood Red Sky (1983), assim como o filme-concerto Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky (1983), sendo que ambos foram tocados por um longo período de tempo nas rádios e na MTV, ampliando a audiência da banda e mostrando suas proezas como um ato de viver.[36] Seu contrato com a gravadora Island Records estava chegando ao fim, e em 1984, a banda assinou uma renovação de contrato mais lucrativa. Eles negociaram o retorno de seus direitos autorais (de modo que eles possuíssem os direitos de suas próprias canções), um aumento em sua taxa de direitos, e uma melhoria geral em termos, à custa de um maior pagamento inicial.[37]

The Unforgettable Fire e Live Aid (1984–1985)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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“Sabíamos que o mundo estava pronto para receber os herdeiros de The Who. Tudo o que tínhamos a fazer era continuar fazendo o que estávamos fazendo e, gostaríamos de nos tornar a maior banda desde Led Zeppelin, sem dúvida. Mas algo simplesmente não parecia estar certo. Sentimos que tínhamos uma maior poder do que qualquer outra banda grande, nós tínhamos algo único a oferecer”.

— Bono, na nova direção de The Unforgettable Fire.[38]

The Unforgettable Fire foi lançado em 1984. A música ambiente e o abstrato, que era na época, a mudança mais marcante na direção da banda.[39] O grupo temia que, após o evidente rock do álbum War e de sua turnê, eles estivessem em risco de tornar-se outro incômodo, como se representassem um slogan de bandas de rock arena.[40] Assim, procuraram a experimentação,[41] como Adam Clayton lembra: “Nós estávamos procurando por algo um pouco mais sério, mais artístico”.[38]The Edge admirava o ambiente e as “obras estranhas” de Brian Eno, que, junto com seu engenheiro de áudio, Daniel Lanois, eventualmente concordou em produzir o álbum.[42]

Em parte gravado no Slane Castle, The Unforgettable Fire foi lançado em 1984, no momento em que a mudança mais marcante da banda.[39] The Unforgettable Fire tem um som rico e orquestrado. Sob a direção de Lanois, Mullen tornou-se mais flexível na percussão, no funk e mais sutil; Clayton tornou-se mais subliminar no baixo; as seções rítmicas já não atrapalhavam, porém, fluía em apoio das canções.[43] Complementando a atmosfera sonora, as letras do álbum estavam abertas a muitas interpretações, oferecendo o que a banda chamou de “sensação de grande visão”.[39] Devido a uma agenda lotada de gravações, Bono achava que as canções “Bad” e “Pride (In the Name of Love)“, como se fossem um esboço/rascunho que não havia terminado.[44] “Pride (In the Name of Love)”, era baseado em Martin Luther King Jr., sendo o primeiro single do álbum e tornando-se o maior sucesso da banda até então; inclusive sendo a sua primeira a entrar no top 40 dos Estados Unidos.[45]

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The Unforgettable Fire” tem um som rico e sinfônico, construída a partir de uma instrumentação ambiental e um rítmo conduzido.[46]

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Grande parte da turnê The Unforgettable Fire Tour mudou-se para arenas internas, em que a banda começou a ganhar a sua longa batalha para construir seu público.[47] As complexas texturas das novas canções gravadas do álbum, como “The Unforgettable Fire” e “Bad”, foram difíceis de traduzir para performances ao vivo.[39] Uma solução foram os sequenciadores programados, já que a banda havia sido relutante em utilizar; mas que agora, eram usados na maioria das performances do grupo.[39] As canções do álbum tinham sido criticadas por serem “incompletas”, “vagas” e “sem tema”, porém, foi o melhor recebido pela crítica quando tocado ao vivo no palco.[48]

O U2 participou do Live Aid (1985), um concerto para o alívio da fome na Etiópia no Estádio de Wembley, em julho de 1985.[49]A performance da banda perante a 82 mil pessoas foi um ponto fundamental na carreira do U2.[50] Durante uma apresentação de 14 minutos da música “Bad”, Bono pulou do palco para abraçar e dançar com uma fã, tendo uma audiência de milhões de telespectadores, observando o que Bono poderia fazer com o público.[51] Em 1985, a revista Rolling Stone chamou o U2 de a “banda da década de 1980”, dizendo que, para um crescente número de fãs de rock n’ roll, o U2 tornou-se um dos grupos mais importantes, se não, a mais importante”.[37]

The Joshua Tree e Rattle and Hum (1986–1989)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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“A beleza selvagem, a riqueza cultural, o vago espírito e violência feroz da América, são explorados para o efeito atraente em praticamente todos os aspectos de The Joshua Tree — no título e na capa, o blues e os empréstimos evidentes do país na música… De fato, Bono diz que o ‘desarmamento da mitologia americana’ é uma parte importante do objetivo de The Joshua Tree.”

— Anthony DeCurtis.[52]

Para seu quinto álbum, The Joshua Tree (1987),[53] a banda queria construir as texturas de The Unforgettable Fire (1984), mas ao vez de sair a experimentação do foco, eles procuraram um som mais duro na batida, dentro da limitação das estruturas musicais convencionais.[54] Consciente de que “o U2 não tinha tradição” e que seu conhecimento musical no seu início era limitado, o grupo aprofundou-se na raiz da música americana e da música irlandesa.[55] Amizades com Bob Dylan,Van Morrison e Keith Richards motivou a banda explorar o blues, música folclórica e música gospel, focando as habilidades de composições e letras de Bono.[56] Para seu quinto álbum, The Joshua Tree,[57] a banda queria construir as mesmas texturas de The Unforgettable Fire, mas buscavam um som mais difícil de atingir, usando as limitações das estruturas das canções.[58]Em 1986 a banda interrompeu suas sessões de gravação do álbum para servir como manchete na ação da Anistia Internacional da turnê A Conspiracy of Hope Tour. Ao invés de ser somente uma distração, a turnê acrescentou uma intensidade extra e foco para seu novo material.[59] Em 1986, Bono viajou para El Salvador e Nicarágua, vendo em primeira mão, o sofrimento dos camponeses intimidados em conflitos internos que foram sujeitos à política da intervenção americana. A experiência tornou-se uma influência importante no novo estilo musical.[60]

A árvore retratada no encarte do álbum The Joshua Tree. Adam Clayton disse: “O deserto era imensamente inspirador para nós, como uma imagem mental para este registro”.[61]

The Joshua Tree foi lançado em março de 1987. O álbum sobrepõe a antipatia americana contra a profunda fascinação do grupo com o país, seus amplos espaços, liberdade e ideais.[62] A banda queria uma música com um sentido de localização e uma qualidade cinematográfica; queria a música do registro e as letras extraídas em imagens criadas por escritores americanos, cujos trabalhos a banda vinha lendo.[63] The Joshua Tree tornou-se um dos álbuns mais vendidos da história das paradas britânicas, liderando a Billboard 200 nos Estados Unidos por nove semanas consecutivas.[64] O primeiro dos singles, “With or Without You[40] e “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For“, rapidamente tornaram-se o hitde número 1 do grupo, nos Estados Unidos. Eles tornaram-se a 4ª banda de rock a ser destaque na capa da revista Time,[65] que declarou o U2 como a “bilheteria mais quente do rock”.[66] O álbum ganhou seus primeiros dois Prêmios Grammy,[67] trazendo à banda um novo nível de sucesso. Muitas publicações, incluindo a Rolling Stone, têm citado-os como um dos maiores do rock.[68] A The Joshua Tree Tour foi a primeira turnê em que a banda fez concertos em estádios, ao lado de arenas menores.[69]

O álbum e documentário Rattle and Hum (1988), continha imagens gravadas da turnê de The Joshua Tree, e que acompanha o álbum duplo de mesmo nome, inclui nove faixas de estúdio e seis performances ao vivo do U2. Lançado em outubro de 1988, o álbum e o filme foram concebidos como um tributo à música americana,[70] incluindo gravações no Sun Studios em Memphis e performances com Bob Dylan e B. B. King. Rattle and Hum teve uma performance modesta na bilheteria e recebeu críticas mistas de ambos os filmes e críticos musicais;[71] um editor da Rolling Stone falou da excitação do álbum; outros, descrevendo-a como “bombástica e equivocada”.[72] O diretor do filme, Phil Joanou, o descreveu como “um olhar pretensioso do U2”.[73] A maioria do novo material do álbum foi tocado em 1989, na turnê Lovetown Tour, fazendo shows na Austrália, Japão e Europa, porque a banda queria evitar a reação norte-americana. Além disso, eles cresceram insatisfeitos com suas performances ao vivo; Mullen disse: “Fomos os maiores, mas não fomos os melhores”.[74] Com uma sensação de estagnação musical, Bono disse aos fãs em uma das últimas datas da turnê que era “o fim de algo para o U2”, e que eles tinham que “ir embora […] e tudo apenas como um sonho novamente”.[75]

Achtung Baby e Zooropa (1990–1993)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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“A moda das palavras neste disco foram: inútil, descartável, obscura, sexy, industrial (muito bom), sério, educado, doce, justo, rock e linear (muito ruim). Era bom se uma canção levava você em uma viagem ou se fez você pensar que seu riff estava quebrado, ruim se fizesse você lembrar dos estúdios de gravação ou do U2…”.

Brian Eno, durante a gravação de Achtung Baby.[76]

Incomodados com a crítica de Rattle and Hum (1988), a banda procurou transformar-se musicalmente.[77] Buscando inspiração na véspera da reunificação alemã, que começou a trabalhar em Achtung Baby no Hansa Studios em Berlim, em outubro de 1990, com os produtores Daniel Lanois e Brian Eno.[78] As sessões foram repletas de conflitos, como a banda argumentou sobre a sua direção musical e a qualidade de seu material. Enquanto Clayton e Mullen preferiram um som semelhante ao trabalho anterior do U2, Bono e The Edge foram inspirados pela música industrial e música eletrônicaeuropeia, e defendeu uma mudança no estilo musical. Semanas de tensão e de progresso lento, chegaram a considerar romper a banda, mas eles fizeram um grande avanço com a redação improvisada da canção “One“.[79] Eles voltaram para Dublin em 1991, onde a moral melhorou e a maioria do álbum foi concluída.

A Zoo TV Tour foi um intenso evento de multimídia, com um palco que usou dezenas de telas de vídeo.

Em novembro de 1991, o U2 lançou Achtung Baby. O álbum representou a mudança calculada na direção musical e temática para o grupo; a mudança foi um de seus mais dramáticos desde The Unforgettable Fire.[80] Em termos sonoros, o álbum obtém influências dorock alternativo, dance music e música industrial da época, com a banda referindo-se à sua partida musical como “quatro homens derrubando The Joshua Tree“.[81] Tematicamente, foi um registro mais introspectivo e pessoal; era mais sombria, entretanto, às vezes, mais irreverente do que os trabalhos anteriores da banda. Comercialmente e criticamente, tem sido um dos maiores sucessos da banda. Ele produziu cinco singles de sucesso nas paradas, incluindo “The Fly“, “Mysterious Ways” e “One”, sendo uma parte crucial do início da reinvenção da banda na década de 1990.[82] Tal como The Joshua Tree (1987), muitas publicações citaram o álbum como um dos maiores do rock.[68]

Como Achtung Baby (1991), a Zoo TV Tour de 1992 e 1993, foi uma ruptura inequívoca com o passado da banda. Em contraste com as configurações de estágio austero de eventuais turnês anteriores do U2, a Zoo TV foi um evento elaborado em multimídias. É satirizado o caráter universal da televisão e sua indefinição de notícias, entretenimento, e das televendas, tentando incutir uma “sobrecarga sensorial” em sua audiência.[81] [83] [84] Foi caracterizada por grandes telas de vídeos, que mostravam os efeitos visuais, videoclipes aleatórios da cultura pop e frases de textos piscando.[85] Considerando que a banda era conhecida por suas sérias performances ao vivo na década de 1980, os concertos da Zoo TV Tour foram intencionalmente ironizadas e auto-depreciativas;[81] no palco, Bono realizava vários personagens, incluindo “The Fly”,[86] Mirror Ball Man, e MacPhisto.[87] Trotes por telefones foram feitos para oex-presidente George W. Bush, às Nações Unidas e outros. Ao vivo por ligação via satélite, mostrava a controvérsia causada na guerra de Sarajevo.[88]

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The Fly” apresenta características de batidas de hip hop, vocais distorcidos, e uma difícil influência industrial que se diferenciava do som típico do U2.[89]

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Durante uma pausa da turnê Zoo TV em meados de 1993, o álbum Zooropa deu sequência a muitos dos temas de Achtung Baby e da própria turnê. Inicialmente concebido como um EP, a banda expandiu Zooropa inteiramente em um álbum LP. Foi uma partida ainda maior a partir de seus estilos anteriores, incorporando influência dance e outros efeitos eletrônicos.[90]Johnny Cash participou nos vocais da canção “The Wanderer”. A maioria das canções foram tocadas pelo menos uma vez durante as etapas da turnê em 1993, visitando a Europa, Austrália, Nova Zelândia e Japão; metade das faixas do álbum tornaram-se comuns no setlist.[91] Embora o sucesso comercial de Zooropa tivesse ganhado o “Melhor Álbum Alternativo”, a banda considera o álbum como uma mistura de sentimentos, porque eles sentiam que era mais um interlúdio.

Passengers e Pop (1994–1999)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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“Não é o suficiente para escrever uma grande letra. Não é o suficiente para ter uma boa ideia. Muitas coisas têm que vir junto, e então, você tem que ter a capacidade de disciplina e de amparo. Devemos dar esse álbum a um remix, voltar ao que estava inicialmente previsto”.

— Bono, no álbum Pop.[92]

Em 1995, o U2 lançou um álbum experimental chamado Original Soundtracks 1. Brian Eno, produtor de três álbuns anteriores do U2, contribuiu como um parceiro integral, incluindo a escrita e gravação. Por esta razão e devido à natureza altamente experimental do disco, a banda optou por lançá-la sob o apelido de Passengerspara distingui-lo dos álbuns convencionais do grupo. Mullen disse sobre o álbum: “Há uma linha fina entre a música interessante e autoindulgência. Atravessamos-lo no registro de Passengers“.[93] Foi comercialmente desperdiçada pelos padrões do U2, recebendo várias críticas negativas. No entanto, o singleMiss Sarajevo” com Luciano Pavarotti, Bono o cita como uma de suas canções favoritas do grupo,[94] sendo bem sucedida.

A etapa da Popmart Tour contou com um arco de ouro, um limão gigante, e até o momento, a maior tela LED do mundo (acima), tendo como base um arco semelhante à logotipo da McDonald’s (abaixo).

Em 1997, a banda lançou o álbum Pop, sendo a continuação de sua experimentação; loop, programação, sequenciamento, ritmo e amostragem, fornecem ao álbum pesados ritmos de funky dance.[95] Lançado em março, o álbum estreou no número 1 em 35 países e atraiu principalmente comentários positivos.[96] A Rolling Stone, por exemplo, declarou que o U2 tinha desafiado as probabilidades e fizeram algumas das maiores músicas de suas vidas.[97] Outros achavam que o álbum foi uma grande decepção e as vendas eram baixas em comparação com os álbuns anteriores.[98] A banda apressou-se em terminar o álbum a tempo para a turnê iminente pré-agendado, e Bono admitiu que o álbum “não comunicou a forma com que foi intencionada”.[99]

A turnê subsequente, Popmart Tour, foi iniciada em abril de 1997. Como a Zoo TV, ela ironizou a cultura pop e tinha a intenção de enviar uma mensagem sarcástica os que acusaram o U2 de comercialismo. O estágio incluiu um arco de 30 metros de altura, 46 metros de comprimento da tela de vídeo e 12 metros de altura do mirrorball lemon (limão gigante). O U2 não conseguiu um big shtick, entretanto, para satisfazer muitos que estavam aparentemente confusos com a imagem do novo “estilo cafona” da banda e conjuntos elaborados.[100] O adiamento da data de lançamento de Pop (1997), a fim de completar o álbum significou o tempo de ensaio para a turnê, foi severamente reduzida, e o sofrimento em performances de shows precoces.[101] Um destaque da turnê foi o concerto em Sarajevo, onde a banda foi o primeiro principal grupo a realizar ali após a Guerra da Bósnia.[102] Mullen descreveu o show, dizendo: “Uma experiência que eu nunca irei esquecer para o resto da minha vida, e seu tivesse de passar vinte anos na banda apenas para tocar neste show, e tenho feito isso, eu acho que terias valido a pena”.[103] Bono disse: “Um dos mais difíceis e uma das mais doces noites da minha vida”.[104] Um mês após a conclusão da turnê Popmart, o U2 apareceu no episódio 200, “Empate de Titãs“, do seriado animado Os Simpsons, no qual Homer Simpsoninterrompeu a banda no palco durante um show da Popmart Tour.[105]

Leave Behind e Atomic Bomb (2000–2006)[editar | editar código-fonte]

Apresentação da banda durante aElevation Tour em 2001.

Após a recepção comparativamente pobre de Pop (1997), a banda declarou que eles “reaplicariam ao trabalho… de uma das melhores bandas do mundo”,[106] e desde então, têm perseguido por um som de rock mais convencional misturado por suas influências de suas explorações musicais na década de 1990.[107] O álbum All That You Can’t Leave Behind foi lançado em outubro de 2000, e foi produzido por Brian Eno e Daniel Lanois. Para muitos que não foram conquistados pelas músicas do grupo nos anos 1990, considerou-se um retorno à graça;[108] A Rolling Stone disse a “terceira obra-prima” do U2, ao lado de The Joshua Tree (1987) e Achtung Baby (1991).[109]O álbum estreou na posição de número 1 em 22 países[110] e seu single de sucesso mundial, “Beautiful Day“, ganhou três Prémios Grammy. Os outros singles do álbum também ganharam três Prémios Grammy.

Para a Elevation Tour, o U2 realizou um ambiente em escala reduzida, retornando para arenas, depois de dez anos de produções em estádios. Um palco em forma de coração e uma rampa permitindo uma maior proximidade ao público. Após os ataques de 11 de setembro, o novo álbum ganhou uma ressonância adicionada,[68] [111] e, em outubro, o grupo realizou um concerto no Madison Square Garden, em Nova Iorque. Bono e The Edge disseram mais tarde que esses shows em Nova Iorque estavam entre suas performances mais memoráveis e emocionais.[112] No início de 2002, a banda realizou um show durante o intervalo do Super Bowl XXXVI,[113] onde homenagearam as vítimas dos ataques de 11 de setembro de 2001,[114] que, de acordo com a Sports Illustrated, foi o melhor show de intervalo da história do Super Bowl.[115]

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Walk On“, canção dedicada à líder democrática Aung San Suu Kyi, como forma de mostrar a luta pela liberdade durante seu projeto ativista na Birmânia.

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Vertigo“, com seu riff agressivo, tornou-se um sucesso mundial e foi utilizado em uma promoção cruzada com a Apple.

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O álbum de estúdio seguinte, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, foi lançado em novembro de 2004. A banda estava procurando um som de rock mais difícil de tocar do que All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000). Tematicamente, Bono afirmou que “muitas das canções, são hinos de ingenuidade, uma rejeição à sabedoria”.[116] O primeiro single, “Vertigo“, foi apresentado na televisão em um comercial exibido internacionalmente pelo iPod da Apple, por um iPod especial do U2 e pela caixa especialThe Complete U2 (2004), que foram lançadas como parte da promoção com a Apple. O álbum estreou no número 1 nos Estados Unidos, onde as vendas da primeira semana foi o dobro das vendas de All That You Can’t Leave Behind, estabelecendo um recorde para a banda.[117] Afirmando-o como um dos concorrentes dos três melhores álbuns do U2, Bono disse: “Não há canções fracas. Mas, como um álbum, o todo não é maior que a soma de suas partes, e isso me irrita”.[116] AVertigo Tour contou com um setlist que variaram mais do que em datas de qualquer turnê da banda desde Lovetown Tour, e incluiu músicas não tocadas desde 1980. Como a Elevation Tour, a Vertigo Tour foi um sucesso comercial.[118] O álbum e seussingles ganharam Prémios Grammy em todas as oito categorias em que o grupo foi nomeado. Em 2005, Bruce Springsteeniniciou o Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[119] O filme 3D do concerto-filme, U2 3D, foi rodado em nove concertos durante a América Latina e na etapa australiana da Vertigo Tour, sendo lançado em 23 de janeiro de 2008.

Panorama do palco da Vertigo Tour em Adelaide, na Austrália.

Em agosto de 2006, a banda incorporou seu negócio editorial nos Países Baixos após o nivelamento da isenção dos artistas irlandeses no imposto de duzentos e cinquenta mileuros.[120] The Edge afirmou que as empresas, muitas vezes, buscavam minimizar os seus encargos fiscais.[121] O movimento foi criticado pelo parlamento irlandês.[121] [122] A banda disse que a crítica era injusta, afirmando que a aproximidade de 95% de suas atividades teve lugar fora da Irlanda, que fossem tributadas a nível mundial devido a isso, e que estavam “todos os investidores pessoais e empregadores no país”.[123] Em março de 2008, o U2 assinou um contrato de 12 anos com a Live Nation, no valor de cem milhões de dólares,[124] o que inclui o controle da Live Nation sobre a mercadoria da banda, patrocínio e seu site oficial.[125]

No Line (2007–2011)[editar | editar código-fonte]

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A estrutura do palco da 360° Tour, o maior já construído, permitiu uma configuração de assentos de 360 graus.

A gravação para o décimo segundo álbum de estúdio do U2, No Line on the Horizon (2009), começou com o produtor Rick Rubin em 2006, mas as sessões foram de curta duração e o material foi arquivado. Em junho de 2007, a banda começou as novas sessões com Brian Eno e Daniel Lanois, que contribuíram não só como produtores, mas pela primeira vez com o U2, como compositores também.[126]A gravação continuou até dezembro de 2008 nos Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Irlanda e Fez, no Marrocos, onde a banda explorou a música norte africana. Pretendia ser um trabalho mais experimental do que seus dois álbuns anteriores,[127] sendo lançado em fevereiro de 2009, recebendo críticas positivas, incluindo a sua primeira revisão de cinco estrelas da Rolling Stone. Os críticos, no entanto, observaram que não era tão experimental como o esperado. O álbum estreou no número 1 em mais de 30 países,[128] mas as vendas do álbum foram relativamente baixas para os padrões da banda e não continha um single de sucesso.[129]

O grupo começou a U2 360° Tour em 2009. A turnê contou com a maior estrutura de palco em concertos, apelidado de “garra”, e um de seus 360º de configuração de teste/audiência que os fãs eram permitidos cercar todos os lados do palco.[130] A turnê visitou os estádios da Europa e Estados Unidos em 2009. No final do ano, a Rolling Stone disse que o U2 era um dos oito “Artistas da Década”.[131] A turnê da banda os classificou na segunda posição em total de concertos da década, atrás de The Rolling Stones, embora a banda tivésse um lucro significantemente superior em relação aos Stones. Eles foram a única banda do “top 25” da década de 2000, a vender por fora cada show que eles tocaram.[132] O U2 retomou a 360º Tour em 2010, com as etapas na Europa, Austrália e Nova Zelândia. No entanto, sua aparência em manchete agendada ao Festival de Glastonbury 2010 e sua etapa norte-americana naquele ano, foram adiadas após uma lesão séria que Bono sofreu.[133] [134] [135] Estas aparições foram reprogramadas para 2011, após a etapa sul-africana e América do Sul e do Festival de Glastonbury 2011.[136] A turnê foi concluída em julho de 2011, com uma renda bruta de mais de 736 milhões de dólares, e um atendimento total de 7.268.430 espectadores, ambos os valores, recorde para uma única turnê.[137] A revista Forbes estima que a banda ganhou 78 milhões de dólares, entre maio de 2011 e maio de 2012, tornando-se o quarto artista musical mais bem pagos.[138]

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Ver artigo principal: Songs of Innocence

Em novembro de 2013, o empresário de longa data da banda, Paul McGuinness, desceu de seu posto como parte de um acordo com a Live Nation, para adquirir sua empresa de gestão, Principle Management. McGuinness, que trabalhou por 35 anos com o grupo, foi sucedido por Guy Oseary.[139] [140] No fim de 2013, a banda interrompeu as gravações do 13º álbum de estúdio para gravar a canção “Ordinary Love“, como parte da trilha sonora do filme Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013),[141] depois de receber um convite do produtor cinematográfico Harvey Weinstein.[142] [143] A faixa, escrita em homenagem a Nelson Mandela, ganhou o Prêmios Globo de Ouro para “Melhor Canção Original” de 2014.[144] [145] No início de 2014, em parceria com a organização não governamental, (Red), também co-fundada por Bono, e com o Bank of America, a banda lançou a canção “Invisible“. Divulgada inicialmente no intervalo do Super Bowl XLVIII, o trabalho foi disponibilizado gratuitamente para download por 36 horas no iTunes Store. Para cada download realizado, o Bank of America se comprometeu a doar um dólar para o combate o Fundo Global de Luta contra Aids, Tuberculose e Malária.[146] Após o período para downloads, a iniciativa arrecadou cerca de 3 milhões de dólares.[147]

Divulgação do álbum Innocence no evento da Apple, com a presença de Tim Cook (ponta esquerda), e os membros da banda.

Em 9 de setembro de 2014, a banda anunciou sem aviso prévio o lançamento do 13º álbum de estúdio, Songs of Innocence (2014), sendo anunciada em um evento da Apple, lançado no mesmo dia, gratuitamente aos clientes do iTunes.[148] O lançamento fez o álbum disponível para mais de 500 milhões de clientes do iTunes em que o CEO da Apple, Tim Cook, afirmou que o álbum “seria o maior lançamento do álbum de todos os tempos”.[149] A Apple teria pago à Universal Music Group e ao U2 um montante fixo para um período de exclusividade de cinco semanas,[150] e gastou 100 milhões de dólares americanos em uma campanha promocional.[149] Produzido porDanger Mouse, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney e colaborador de longa data, Flood, Innocence relembra a juventude dos membros do grupo na Irlanda, em homenagem a inspirações musicais, tocando as experiências de infância, amores e arrependimentos; Bono descreveu como “o álbum mais pessoal que eu escrevi”.[151] Parte da imprensa e os consumidores foram críticos da estratégia de divulgação, que envolveu a adição automática do álbum para as contas dos usuários do iTunes sem o seu consentimento.[152] [153] [154] A turnê da banda foi interrompida, após Bono ficar gravemente ferido em um acidente de bicicleta no Central Park, em 16 de novembro de 2014, com fraturas no ombro, úmero, órbita, e no dedo mínimo.[155] Na época, Bono afirmou que era incerto se ele poderia ou não, ser capaz de tocar guitarra novamente.[156]

A banda embarcou na turnê Innocence + Experience Tour em apoio ao álbum, dando início em 14 de maio de 2015.[157] [158] Composta por 76 shows,[159] a turnê visitou arenas na América do Norte e Europa, entre maio a dezembro de 2015.[160] O grupo estruturou seus concertos em torno de uma narrativa solta de “inocência” a passar para “experiência”, com um setlist fixo de canções para o primeiro semestre de cada show, e uma segunda metade variável, separadas por um intervalo.[161] O palco media o comprimento do piso local e foi dividido em três seções: Um palco retangular principal, um palco auxiliar circular menor e uma passagem que conectava os dois palcos anteriores.[161] A tela de vídeo dupla-face de 30 metros de comprimento foi suspendida e paralela à passagem; a estrutura contaa com uma passarela interior entre as telas, permitindo que os membros da banda pudessem tocar entre as projeções de vídeo.[162] [163] O sistema sonoro foi transferida para os limites máximos do ambiente e dispostos em uma matriz oval, na esperança de melhorar a acústica uniformemente à distribuição de som por toda a arena.[161] No total, a turnê arrecadou mais de 152 milhões de dólares e mais de 1.29 milhões de bilhetes vendidos.[164] Os dois shows de encerramento da turnê, em Paris, foram remarcadas propositalmente devido ataques de novembro de 2015 em Paris, sendo filmado para transmição pela rede de televisão americana HBO.[165] [166]

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Realização de um concerto da banda em 2009. The Edge descreveu o U2 como um grupo fundamentalmente ao vivo.

Desde a sua criação, o U2 tem desenvolvido e mantido um som distintamente reconhecível, com ênfase e instrumentais melódicos e expressivos, maior em relação aos vocais.[177] Esta abordagem tem suas raízes, em parte, a influência precoce do produtor de discos Steve Lillywhite, em um momento em que a banda não era conhecida pela seriedade musical.[178] The Edge tem usado constantemente um eco rítmico e uma marca no delay[179] para elaborar seu trabalho na guitarra, junto com uma influência irlandesa nos pedais tocados contra suas melodias sincopadas[180] que, em última análise, produz um som bem definido, um som de carrilhão. Bono tem estimulado o seu falsete de voz operística[181] e tem mostrado uma tendência notável para a lírica social, política e assuntos pessoais, mantendo uma escala grandiosa em sua composição. Além disso, The Edge descreveu o U2 como uma banda fundamentalmente ao vivo.[180]

Apesar destas consistências amplas, o grupo introduziu elementos novos em seu repertório musical, com cada álbum novo. O som inicial do U2 foi influenciado por bandas como Television e Joy Division, sendo descrito como “contendo uma sensação de alegria”, que resultou de The Edge “acordes radiantes” e um “vocal ardente” de Bono.[182] O som do U2 começou com raízes do pós-punk, instrumentais minimalistas e menos complicada de ser ouvida em Boy (1980) e October (1981), evoluindo em War (1983) para incluir aspectos do rock, do funk, ritmo dance, para tornar-se mais versátil e agressivo.[183] Boy e War foram rotulados como “forte e agressivo” pela revista Rolling Stone,[40] influenciado em grande parte, pela produção de Lillywhite. The Unforgettable Fire (1984), que começou com The Edge tocando mais nos teclados do que na guitarra, bem como o acompanhamento de The Joshua Tree (1987), tinha Brian Eno e Daniel Lanois à frente da produção. Com sua influência, ambos os álbuns conseguiram uma textura variada.[40] As canções de The Joshua Tree e Rattle and Hum (1988), colocou mais ênfase no ritmo inspirado de Lanois à medida que a mistura distinta de estilos e variados da música gospel e blues, resultou no fascínio crescente da banda com a cultura americana, pessoas e lugares. Na década de 1990, a banda reinventou-se quando eles começaram a utilizar sintetizadores, distorções, batida eletrônica e derivados dorock alternativo, música industrial, dance e hip hop em Achtung Baby,[184] Zooropa (1993) e Pop (1997).[185] Na década de 2000, havia uma banda com um som mais despojado, com um ritmo mais tradicional e o uso de sintetizadores e efeitos.[186]

Letras e temas[editar | editar código-fonte]

Coexist” ou “Coexistir”, foi uma logo criada pelo artista polonês Piotr Mlodozeniec, formada pelos três símbolos das religiões abraâmicas: A letra “C” representando a lua crescente, símbolo do Islamismo (1); o “X” representando a Estrela de Davi, símbolo do Judaísmo (2) e; o “T” representando a cruz, símbolo doCristianismo (3). Apresentação no México em 2006.

O cenário social e político, muitas vezes embelezadas com imagens cristãs e espirituais,[187] são aspectos importantes do conteúdo lírico da banda. Canções como “Sunday Bloody Sunday“, “Silver and Gold” e “Mothers of the Disappeared” foram motivados por acontecimentos atuais do tempo. O primeiro, foi escrito sobre o Conflito na Irlanda do Norte,[188] enquanto que a terceira, diz respeito à luta de um grupo de mulheres cujos filhos foram mortos ou desaparecidos pelo governo durante a Guerra Civil de El Salvador.[189] A canção “Running to Stand Still” de The Joshua Tree, foi inspirado pelo vício em heroína que estava varrendo Dublin — a letra “I see seven towers, but I only see one way out” (“Eu vejo sete torres, mas vejo apenas uma saída”), refere-se à Ballymun Tower, do Norte de Dublin, e as imagens durante toda a canção, personifica as lutas do vício.[190]

Os conflitos pessoais e turbulências foram inspirados nas canções “Mofo“, “Tomorrow” e “Kite“. Um desejo emocional ou súplica, frequentemente aparece como um tema lírico,[177] em canções como “Yahweh”,[191] “Peace on Earth”, e “Please“. Grande parte da composição e músicas do U2 também é motivado por contemplações de perda e angústia, juntamente com esperança e resiliência, temas que são centrais em The Joshua Tree.[40] Algumas dessas ideias líricas foram ampliadas por Bono e das experiências pessoais da banda durante a sua juventude na Irlanda, bem como a campanhas e ativismos mais tarde, em suas vidas. A banda têm usado turnês, tais como Zoo TV e Popmart Tour, para demonstrar as tendências sociais, tais como meios de sobrecarga e do consumismo, respectivamente.[185]

Embora a banda e seus fãs muitas vezes afirmarem a natureza política de suas músicas, as letras e as canções do U2 têm sido criticadas como apolíticos, por causa de sua imprecisão e “imagens distorcidas”, e a falta de qualquer referência específica a pessoas reais ou personagens.[192]

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A banda cita The Who,[193] The Clash,[194] Television, Ramones,[195] The Beatles,[196] Joy Division,[197] Siouxsie and the Banshees,[198] Elvis Presley,[199] e Patti Smith[200] como influências. Van Morrison foi citado por Bono como uma influência[201] e sua influência sobre o U2 é apontado no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[202] Outros músicos e bandas comoColdplay,[203] [204] Snow Patrol,[205] [206] The Fray,[207] [208] OneRepublic,[209] [210] The Academy Is…,[211] The Killers,[212] 30 Seconds to Mars,[213] Switchfoot,[214] Sanctus Real,[215]Your Vegas,[216] e Angels and Airwaves,[217] citam o U2 como influência.

A banda também trabalhou e/ou tinha relações influentes com artistas como Johnny Cash, Green Day, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, B. B. King, Lou Reed, Luciano Pavarotti,[218] Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Wim Wenders, R.E.M., Salman Rushdie e Anton Corbijn.

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Bono com o ex-presidente dos Estados Unidos George W. Bushem fevereiro de 2006, na National Prayer Breakfast (acima); U2 com apresidente do Brasil Dilma Rousseff, na cidade de Brasília, em abril de 2011 (abaixo).

Desde o início da década de 1980, os membros do U2 — como uma banda e individualmente — têm colaborado com outros músicos, artistas, celebridades e políticos para tratar de questões relativas à pobreza, doença e injustiça social. Em 1984, Bono e Adam Clayton participaram do Band Aid, com intuito de arrecadar dinheiro para a fome na Etiópia em 1984–1985. Esta iniciativa produziu um single de sucesso, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“, que seria a primeira entre várias colaborações entre o U2 e Bob Geldof. Em julho de 1985, a banda tocou no Live Aid, um acompanhamento aos esforços do Band Aid. Bono e sua esposa, Ali, a convite da World Vision, mais tarde, visitou a Etiópia, onde testemunhou a fome em primeira mão. Bono diria mais tarde que estabeleceu as bases para sua campanha da África e alguns de seus compositores.[219]

Em 1986, o grupo participou da turnê A Conspiracy of Hope com apoio sobre a Anistia Internacional e no Self Aid para o desemprego na Irlanda. No mesmo ano, Bono e Ali Hewson também visitaram a Nicarágua e El Salvador, a convite do Movimento Santuário, e viu os efeitos da Guerra Civil de El Salvador. Estes eventos de 1986 influenciaram grandemente o álbum The Joshua Tree, que estava sendo gravado no momento.[59] [220] Em 1992, a banda participou do concerto Stop Sellafield com o Greenpeace durante a turnê Zoo TV.[221] Os eventos em Sarajevo durante a Guerra da Bósnia, inspirou a música “Miss Sarajevo“, que estreou em setembro de 1995 com Pavarotti e amigos em show, e que, Bono e The Edge realizaram pelo War Child.[222] Uma promessa feita em 1993 foi mantida quando a banda tocou em Sarajevo como parte da turnê Popmart, em 1997.[223] Em 1998, eles tocaram em Belfast, dias antes da votação sobre o Acordo da Sexta-Feira Santa, trazendo os líderes políticos da Irlanda do Norte, como David Trimble e John Hume ao palco, para promover o acordo.[224] Mais tarde naquele ano, todos os rendimentos a partir do lançamento do single “Sweetest Thing“, seria no sentido de apoiar o Projeto Internacional Infantil de Chernobyl.

Em 2001, a banda dedicou “Walk On” para a líder pró-democrática birmanesa Aung San Suu Kyi.[225] No final de 2003, Bono e The Edge participaram do HIV/AIDS na África do Sul, na série de concertos 46664, hospedado por Nelson Mandela.[226] A banda tocou em 2005 no concerto do Live 8 em Londres. A banda e Paul McGuinness foram premiados com a Anistia Internacional com o Prêmio Embaixador da Consciência para o seu trabalho na promoção dos direitos humanos.[227] Desde 2000, Bono inclui a campanha Jubilee 2000 com Bob Geldorf, Muhammad Ali e outros para promover a anulação da dívida de terceiro mundo durante o Grande Jubileu. Em janeiro de 2002, Bono co-fundou a ONG multinacional, DATA, com o objetivo de melhorar o estado social, político e financeiro da África. Ele continuou suas campanhas para a dívida e o alívio do HIV/AIDS em junho de 2002, fazendo visitas de alto nível para a África.[228] [229]

Logotipo da ONE, ONGfundada em 2004, co-fundada por Bono.

A Product Red, uma marca com fins lucrativos para arrecadar fundos para o Fundo Global, foi fundada, em parte, por Bono. A ONE, originalmente em contrapartida ao Make Poverty History, foi moldada por seus esforços e visão.[230] No final de 2005, após o Furacão Katrina e oFuracão Rita, The Edge ajudou a introduzir o Music Rising, uma iniciativa para levantar fundos para os músicos que perderam seus instrumentos musicais na tempestade na parte que banha a Costa do Golfo.[231] Em 2006, o U2 colaborou com a banda pop punk Green Day para gravar um remake da canção “The Saints Are Coming“, da banda escocesa The Skids, para beneficiar o Music Rising.[232] O U2 e o ativismo social de Bono não ficaram sem críticas, no entanto, vários autores e ativistas que publicam em revistas politicamente esquerdistas, como a CounterPunch, criticaram o apoio de Bono às figuras políticas, como Paul Wolfowitz,[233] bem como o seu “paternalismo essencial”.[234] Outras fontes de notícias em geral, têm questionado mais a eficácia da campanha de Bono para aliviar a dívida e prestar assistência a África.[235] Ativistas de impostos e desenvolvimentos também criticaram a mudança da banda da Irlanda para a Holanda com o intuito de reduzir a sua dívida fiscal.[236]

Em novembro de 2014, Bono participou do vocal da canção “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” do Band Aid 30, junto com vários músicos, como o vocalista da banda Coldplay, Chris Martin, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Ellie Goulding, Seal, Sam Smith, Sinéad O’Connor, Rita Ora,Emeli Sandé, Bastille, Olly Murs e os violinistas do grupo Clean Bandit, Milan Neil Amin-Smith e Grace Chatto, sendo produzido por Paul Epworth.[237] No início de dezembro de 2014, a banda irlandesa juntamente com Bruce Springsteen e Chris Martin (ambos substituindo Bono, devido o mesmo ter sofrido um acidente), realizaram um show surpresa na Times Square, em Nova Iorque, em celebração do Dia Mundial de Combate à AIDS.[238]

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Os membros do U2 têm realizado uma série de projetos paralelos, às vezes em colaboração com alguns dos seus companheiros de banda. Em 1985, Bono gravou a canção “In a Lifetime”, com a banda irlandesa Clannad. The Edge lançou um álbum solo para a trilha sonora do filme Captive (1986),[239] que incluiu a participação vocal por Sinéad O’Connor, que antecede o seu próprio álbum de estreia por um ano. Bono e The Edge escreveram a canção “She’s a Mystery to Me” para Roy Orbison, que foi destaque em seu álbum, Mystery Girl (1989).[240] Em 1990, Bono e The Edge forneceram a trilha sonora para o Royal Shakespeare Company London, na versão teatral de A Clockwork Orange (apenas uma faixa já foi lançada, como B-side do single de “The Fly“). Nesse mesmo ano, Mullen co-escreveu e produziu uma canção para a Seleção Irlandesa de Futebol na Copa de 1990, chamado “Put ‘Em Under Pressure”, que liderou as paradas musicais da Irlanda. Juntamente com The Edge, Bono escreveu a música “GoldenEye” para o filme do espião James Bond, GoldenEye (1995), que foi executado pela Tina Turner.[241] Clayton e Mullen retrabalharam na faixa-título do filme Mission: Impossible(1996).[242] Bono participou no vocal para a canção de Mick Jagger, “Joy”, no seu álbum solo, Goddess in the Doorway (2001).[243] Bono também gravou uma reposição, quase um termo falado da versão do músico Leonard Cohen da canção “Hallelujah” para o álbum de tributo Tower of Song (1995). Além disso, em 1998, Bono colaborou com Kirk Franklin e Crystal Lewis (junto com os artistas R. Kelly e Mary J. Blige) para uma música gospel de sucesso, chamado “Lean on Me”.

Além de colaborações musicais, a banda trabalhou com vários autores. O escritor americano William S. Burroughs teve uma aparição do videoclipe da canção “Last Night on Earth” pouco antes de falecer.[244] Seu poema “A Thanksgiving Prayer” foi usada como imagens de vídeo durante a turnê da banda, Zoo TV. Outros colaboradores incluemWilliam Gibson e Allen Ginsberg.[245] No início de 2000, a banda gravou três canções para a trilha sonora do filme The Million Dollar Hotel, incluindo “The Ground Beneath Her Feet“, que foi co-escrito por Salman Rushdie e motivados por seu livro de mesmo nome.[246]

Em 2007, Bono apareceu no filme Across the Universe (2007) e cantando as canções dos The Beatles. Em 2011, Bono e The Edge também escreveram e compuseram canções para a trilha sonora de Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2011). Além disso, The Edge criou a música-tema para a 1ª e 2ª temporada da série animada The Batman.[247]

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A Rolling Stone classificou The Edge e Bono entre os maiores guitarristas e cantores, respectivamente.

O U2 vendeu mais de 150 milhões de discos, inserindo-os entre os artistas que mais venderam discos de todos os tempos,[248] com 51,5 milhões de unidades certificadas pela RIAA, sendo o 21º recordista de vendas de discos nos Estados Unidos.[249] O quinto álbum de estúdio, The Joshua Tree (1987), está classificado como um dos álbuns mais vendidos nos Estados Unidos, depois de ter vendido mais de dez milhões de cópias,[250] e está também entre os álbuns mais vendidos do mundo, com vendas de 25 milhões de cópias.[251] A revista Forbes estima que a banda ganhou US$ 78 milhões entre maio de 2011 e maio de 2012, tornando-se o quarto artista musical mas bem pago.[252] A lista dos ricos do jornal The Sunday Times de 2013 estima a riqueza coletiva do grupo em mais de 630 milhões de euros.[253]

A revista Rolling Stone classificou a banda como o 22º da lista dos “100 Maiores Artistas de Todos os Tempos”,[4] enquanto que o rankingde Bono está na 32ª posição, de melhor cantor[170] e de 38º para The Edge, como melhor guitarrista.[254] Em 2010, oito das canções do U2 apareceram na Rolling Stone, em sua lista atualizada das “500 Melhores Canções de Todos os Tempos“, com “One” como o rankingmais alto, na 36ª posição.[255] Cinco, dos doze álbuns de estúdio do grupo, foram classificados na lista de 2003, nos “500 Melhores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos” pela Rolling StoneThe Joshua Tree liderando o ranking mais alto, na 26ª posição.[68] Em uma pesquisa da revista Q nomeou o grupo como o de maior gesto dos últimos 25 anos em 2011.[256] Em 2010, a VH1 classificou a banda na posição de número 19 na lista dos “100 Maiores Artistas Todos os Tempos”.[257] Cinco dos 12 álbuns de estúdio do U2 estão presentes no ranking dos “500 Melhores Álbuns de Todos os Tempos” pela revista Rolling StoneThe Joshua Tree na posição de número 27;[68] Achtung Baby na posição de número 63;[258] War na posição de número 223;[259] All That You Can’t Leave Behind na posição de número 280;[260] e Boy na posição de número 417.[261] Refletindo sobre a popularidade da banda e o impacto mundial, Jeff Pollack, da The Huffington Post, disse: “Como The Who, antes deles, o U2 escreveu canções sobre coisas que foram importantes e ressoou com seu público”.[262]

A banda recebeu seu primeiro Prémio Grammy com The Joshua Tree em 1988, ganhando 22 no total, de 34 indicações, mais do que qualquer outra banda.[67] [263] Estes incluem o de “Melhor Performance de Rock por um Duo ou Grupo com Vocais“, “Álbum do Ano“, “Gravação do Ano” e “Melhor Álbum de Rock“. A Indústria Fonográfica Britânica, concedeu ao U2, sete Brit Awards, cinco dos quais estão de “Melhor Grupo Internacional”. Na Irlanda, o U2 já ganhou 14 Meteor Music Awards desde que a premiação começou, em 2001. Outros prêmios incluem American Music Awards, quatro MTV Video Music Awards, onze Q Awards, dois Prêmios Juno, três NME Awards e doisPrémios Globo de Ouro. A banda foi introduzido no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame no início de 2005.[119] Em 2006, todos os quatro membros da banda receberam o Prémio ASCAPpor escrever as canções, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” e “Vertigo”.[264] [265]

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Desempenho do U2 durante a vinda ao Brasil, na Vertigo Tour, no Estádio Morumbi, em 21 de fevereiro de 2006.

Em 1998, a banda realizou seu primeiro show no Brasil durante a turnê Popmart Tour, executando três concertos. O primeiro concerto foi realizado no autódromo de Jacarepaguá, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, com estimativa de 110 mil pessoas, em 28 de janeiro de 1998.[266]Enquanto o segundo e último show da banda, foi apresentada no estádio Morumbi, localizado na cidade de São Paulo, em 30 e 31 de janeiro, respectivamente.[267] [268] Cerca de 250 mil pessoas acompanharam os shows. Em 2001, o U2 esteve no Brasil para um show fechado no Projac, para divulgação do álbum All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000), que teve partes exibidas pela Rede Globo.

Em 2006, já pela turnê Vertigo Tour, o grupo retorna depois de cinco anos sem ir ao Brasil. A banda realizou dois concertos no estádio Morumbi, em São Paulo, nos dias 20 e 21 de fevereiro.[269] [270] A venda de ingressos para os shows brasileiros foi marcada pela desorganização dos promotores. No primeiro dia de venda de ingressos, somente para o primeiro dia de show, milhares de fãs gastaram até 12 horas na fila, mas poucos conseguiram comprar os bilhetes, e parte dos ingressos foi comprada por cambistas, que alugavam idosos, gestantes e pessoas com crianças de colo para entrar na fila preferencial. Os dois shows tiveram média de público de mais de 70 mil pessoas. O primeiro dos shows foi transmitido pela Rede Globo. Além dos shows, a passagem da banda pelo Brasil, incluiu uma visita de Bono ao ex-presidente Lula, em doação de uma guitarra ao programa fome zero; e a participação dos integrantes da banda no carnaval de Salvador, no camarote e trio elétrico Expresso 2222, do ex-ministro da Cultura, Gilberto Gil.

“Liguem seus isqueiros, seus celulares, vamos homenagear essas crianças e suas famílias”.

— O pedido de Bono, enquanto o nome da uma dúzia de vítimas aparecia no telão 360º.[271]

Em 2011, durante a U2 360° Tour, a banda apresentou-se nos dias 9, 10 e 13 de abril de 2011, novamente, no estádio Morumbi. Com um público de mais de 90 mil pessoas, Bono fez um discurso em homenagem às 12 crianças vítimas domassacre de Realengo (2011), na Escola Municipal Tasso de Silveira, no Rio de Janeiro. Durante a finalização do primeiro show do U2, na canção “Moment of Surrender“, uma lista dos nomes das crianças vítimas do massacre apareciam na tela LED.[272]

A banda de rock britânica Muse, que desde setembro de 2009 como uma das principais bandas de abertura da turnê, foi responsável também, pela abertura dos três concertos no Brasil.[273]

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Apresentação da banda no Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, durante a 360° Tour, em outubro de 2010.

Em 1982, Portugal recebeu a primeira visita da banda irlandesa, no Festival realizado em Vilar de Mouros. O Festival de Vilar de Mourosdurou nove dias, sendo os U2 uma das referências de todos os festivais de Vilar de Mouros.[274] [275]

Mais de uma década depois de tocar em Portugal, a banda retorna durante a turnê Zoo TV em 1993, no Estádio José Alvalade. Foi um grande marco para a banda e para os fãs, pois a digressão explorou ao máximo a tecnologia da época. O Estádio de Alvalade registrou uma das suas maiores enchentes, cerca de 65 mil pessoas; um número só conseguido no concerto dos The Rolling Stones.[276] [277] Na digressão seguinte, da Popmart Tour, em divulgação do álbum Pop (1997), o U2 realizou um concerto no mesmo estádio, em 11 de setembro de 1997, tocando para mais de 60 mil pessoas.[278] [279] Em 2005, durante a Vertigo Tour, sendo a sua quarta visita ao país, a banda toca pela terceira vez no Estádio Alvalade, realizando o concerto em 14 de agosto de 2005,[280] encerrando a segunda etapa da turnê pela Europa.[281] A última apresentação do grupo em Portugal na década de 2010, foi durante a 360° Tour, na divulgação do álbumNo Line on the Horizon (2009). Desta vez, a banda realizou os dois concertos no Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, nos dias 2 e 3 de outubro de 2010,[282] [283] com a abertura da banda indie rock americana Interpol, com cerca de 42 mil espectadores somente no primeiro show.[284]

Discografia[editar | editar código-fonte]

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  267. Ir para cima “Popmart Leg 4: 1998, South America, Sao Paulo”U2.com (30 de janeiro de 1998). Página visitada em 15 de novembro de 2012.
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  272. Ir para cima “U2360° Leg 3: 2011” U2.com (10 de abril de 2011). Página visitada em 15 de novembro de 2012.
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  277. Ir para cima ” Lisbon, PT (Estadio Jose Alvalade)” U2.com (15 de maio de 1993). Página visitada em 24 de novembro de 2012.
  278. Ir para cima “POPMART TOUR” About U2. Página visitada em 24 de novembro de 2012.
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  281. Ir para cima “Digressão dos U2 passa por Portugal” Diário de Notícias (05 de janeiro de 2005). Página visitada em 24 de novembro de 2012.
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  284. Ir para cima “Portugal se rende à energia inesgotável do U2”Rede Globo (02 de outubro de 2010). Página visitada em 24 de novembro de 2012.

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THE VATICAN OF CROWDS

If the Vatican to speak, would tell us to more accurately on the hill of Prophecy… Knowing the Vatican inside and outside, does not mean you know everything … for example, Vater, “knowledge of the future” for those who see beyond the eyes, not only a beautiful landscape. Envisioning funerary monuments, temples, theaters, palaces, etc., compared to the Vatican view, means not only the monument of Architectural appreciation. According to studies, the Vatican is the name given to the west side of the Tiber River in Rome because of soothsayers who were lined up daily hawking self services to passers-by on the street. Much of soothsayers show women the importance they ruled over the land. For example, Revelation 17:18: And the woman you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth … There are old currency in museums that one side of it there is also a woman, and his feet FIDES title, meaning FAITH . This woman is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Faith, that is, the Catholic Church.

Many do not know the secrets that a monument like the Vatican guard. For example, each statue it inside is of inestimable significance … No need to go too far … There is a statue that was placed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in 1671, which describes the Roman Catholic faith symbol, this statue decorating the monument Pope Clement IX (1667-1669).

In short … Practically almost everything there is on Earth identifies the above importance of being a woman. https://youtu.be/MVaeT3sg4t0 | https://youtu.be/DvH7Zp8JRPI | https://youtu.be/TzhwpXMkgrE

Josefa Maria Santos – Vatican, Italy. Surrealism. Oil s / t.

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O VATICANO DAS MULTIDÕES

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Se o Vaticano falasse, nos diria como mais exatidão sobre a colina da Profecia…

Conhecer o Vaticano por dentro e por fora,  não significa conhecê-lo de tudo… por exemplo, Vater, “conhecimento do futuro” para os que enxergam  além do olhos,  não somente uma linda paisagem. Visionando monumentos funerários, templos, teatros, palácios, etc, comparada a visão do Vaticano, não significa somente o monumento de apreciação Arquitetônica.    Segundo estudos, o nome Vaticano  é dado ao lado do oeste do Rio Tibre em Roma por causa do adivinhos que diariamente ficavam enfileirados apregoando o eu serviços aos passantes na rua. Muitos do adivinhos revelam a mulheres a importância que elas regiam sobre a terra. Por exemplo, Apocalipse 17:18: E a mulher que viste é a grande cidade que reina sobre o reis da terra…    Há moeda antigas nos museus que num lado dela há também uma mulher, e a seus pés o título FIDES, que significa FÉ.  Esta mulher é um símbolo da Fé Católica Romana, ou seja, a Igreja Católica.

Muitos não sabem os segredos que um monumento como o Vaticano guarda. Por exemplo, cada estátua la dentro é de inestimável significado… Não é preciso ir muito longe… Há uma estátua que foi colocada na Basílica de Santa Maria Maggiore  em Roma em 1671, que descreve o Símbolo da Fé Católica Romana, esta estátua decora o monumento ao Papa Clemente IX (1667 – 1669).

Resumindo… Praticamente, quase tudo que há na Terra identifica a supra importância do ser mulher.  https://youtu.be/MVaeT3sg4t0 | https://youtu.be/DvH7Zp8JRPI | https://youtu.be/TzhwpXMkgrE

Josefa Maria Santos – Vaticano, Itália. Surrealismo. Óleo s/t.

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THE FOOTBALL PLAYER CRISTIANO RONALDO, BEARD AND MUSTACHE

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Cristiano Ronaldo’s future … Really? I think yes! At least in my thoughts surreal! It is not only the admiration I have for him as a footballer, but the buff physique that made me imagine the before and after … tomorrow Cristiano Ronaldo doing freestyle football two rolling on the lawn at night without floodlights to clear the thoughts of two bombinhos! … … who solve out the real deals everyday for the surreal life! So that is … Cristiano Ronaldo in the future … to dribble the ball with beard and mustache! Cristiano? Touches the ball forward … it is what most expect people right now! The Surreal is something … for the moment!

Josefa Santos – Cristiano Ronaldo, beard and mustache! Surrealism. Oil s / t.

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Cristiano Ronaldo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Brazilian footballer Ronaldo.
This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Santos and the second or paternal family name is Aveiro.
Cristiano Ronaldo
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Cristiano Ronaldo with Real Madrid in 2015
Personal information
Full name Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
Date of birth 5 February 1985 (age 31)[1]
Place of birth Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2]
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
Real Madrid
Number 7
Youth career
1992–1995 Andorinha
1995–1997 Nacional
1997–2002 Sporting CP
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2003 Sporting CP 25 (3)
2003–2009 Manchester United 196 (84)
2009– Real Madrid 234 (256)
National team
2001 Portugal U15 9 (7)
2001–2002 Portugal U17 7 (5)
2003 Portugal U20 5 (1)
2002–2003 Portugal U21 10 (3)
2004 Portugal U23 3 (2)
2003– Portugal 125 (56)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 01:10, 21 April 2016 (UTC).
† Appearances (goals)

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 29 March 2016[3]

Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, GOIH (born 5 February 1985) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portugal national team. He is a forward and serves as captain for Portugal. By the age of 22, Ronaldo had received Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations. The following year, in 2008, he won his firstBallon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. He then won the FIFA Ballon d’Or in 2013 and 2014. In September 2015, Ronaldo scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country.[4]

Often ranked as the best player in the world[5] and rated by some in the sport as the greatest of all time,[6][7][8][9] in 2015 Ronaldo was named the best Portuguese player of all time by the Portuguese Football Federation, during its 100th anniversary celebrations. He is the first player to win four European Golden Shoe awards. With Manchester United and Real Madrid, Ronaldo has won three Premier Leagues, one La Liga, one FA Cup, two Football League Cups, two Copas del Rey, two UEFA Champions Leagues, one UEFA Super Cup and two FIFA Club World Cups.

Ronaldo began his club career playing for Sporting CP in August 2002. In 2003 he signed for Manchester United for £12.2 million (€15 million). In 2004, he won his first trophy, the FA Cup. In 2007 and 2008, Ronaldo was named FWA Footballer of the Year, and was named the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year. In 2009 he won the FIFA Puskás Award for Goal of the Year. He was the world’s most expensive player when he moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transferworth £80 million (€94 million/$132 million). His buyout clause is valued at €1 billion.[10] In May 2012, he became the first footballer to score against every team in a single season in La Liga.[11] Ronaldo holds the record for most goals scored in a single UEFA Champions League season, having scored 17 goals in the 2013–14 season.[12] In December 2014, Ronaldo became the fastest player to score 200 goals in La Liga, which he accomplished in his 178th La Liga game.[13] He is the only player in the history of football to score 50 or more goals in a season on five consecutive occasions.[14] In September 2015, Ronaldo became the all-time top goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League, and in October 2015 he became Real Madrid’s all-time leading goalscorer. He is the second highest goalscorer in La Liga history behind his perceived career rival Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo made his international debut for Portugal in August 2003, at the age of 18. He has since been capped over 100 timesand has participated in six major tournaments: three UEFA European Championships (2004, 2008 and 2012) and three FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010 and 2014). He is the first Portuguese player to reach 50 international goals, making him Portugal’s all-time top goalscorer. He scored his first international goal in Euro 2004 and helped Portugal reach the final. He took over captaincy in July 2008, and he led Portugal to the semi-finals at Euro 2012, finishing the competition as joint-top scorer. In November 2014, Ronaldo became the all-time top scorer in the UEFA European Championship (including qualifying) with 23 goals.

Early life

Ronaldo was born in Santo António, a neighbourhood of Funchal, Madeira, the youngest child of Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, a cook, and José Dinis Aveiro, a municipal gardener.[15] His second given name, “Ronaldo”, was chosen after then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan, who was his father’s favourite actor.[16][17] He has one older brother, Hugo, and two older sisters, Elma and Liliana Cátia.[1] His great-grandmother Isabel da Piedade was from Cape Verde.[18] The family was staunchly Catholic. Ronaldo later said that he grew up in poverty, sharing a room with his brother and sisters.[19]

As a child, Ronaldo played for amateur team Andorinha, where his father was the kit man,[20] and later spent two years with local club Nacional. In 1997, aged 12, he went on a three-day trial with Sporting CP, who signed him for a fee of £1,500.[21][22] He subsequently moved to Alcochete, near Lisbon, to join Sporting’s other youth players at the club’s football academy.[21] By age 14, Ronaldo believed he had the ability to play semi-professionally, and agreed with his mother to cease his education in order to focus entirely on football.[23] While popular with other students at school, he had been expelled after throwing a chair at his teacher, whom he said had “disrespected” him.[23] A year later, however, he was diagnosed with a racing heart, a condition that could have forced him to give up playing football.[24] He underwent an operation in which a laser was used to cauterise the affected area of his heart; discharged from hospital hours after the procedure, he resumed training only a few days later.[25]

Club career

Sporting CP

Ronaldo memorabilia at Sporting CP’s museum

At age 16, Ronaldo was promoted from Sporting’s youth team by first-team manager László Bölöni, who was impressed with his dribbling.[26] He subsequently became the first player to play for the club’s under-16, under-17, and under-18 teams, the B team, and the first team, all within one season.[21] A year later, on 7 October 2002, Ronaldo made his debut in the Primeira Liga, against Moreirense, and scored two goals in their 3–0 win.[27] Over the course of the 2002–03 season, his representatives suggested the player to Liverpoolmanager Gérard Houllier and Barcelona president Joan Laporta.[28][29] Manager Arsène Wenger, who was interested in signing the winger, met with him at Arsenal‘s grounds in November to discuss a possible transfer.[30]

Ronaldo came to the attention of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson in August 2003, when Sporting defeated United 3–1 at the inauguration of the Estádio José Alvalade in Lisbon. His performance impressed the Manchester United players, who urged Ferguson to sign him.[31] Ferguson himself considered the 18-year-old “one of the most exciting young players” he had ever seen.[32][33] A decade after his departure from the club, in April 2013, Sporting honoured Ronaldo by selecting him to become their 100,000th member.[34]

Manchester United

2003–06: Development and breakthrough

Ronaldo became Manchester United’s first-ever Portuguese player when he signed before the 2003–04 season.[35] His transfer fee of £12.24 million made him, at the time, the most expensive teenager in English football history.[36] Although he requested the number 28, his number at Sporting, he received the number 7 shirt, which had previously been worn by such United legends as George Best, Eric Cantona, and David Beckham.[37][38] Wearing the number 7 became an extra source of motivation for Ronaldo,[38] who stated that his goal was to establish himself among the world’s best players within the next three years.[39] A key element in his development during his time in England proved to be his manager, Alex Ferguson, of whom he later said, “He’s been my father in sport, one of the most important and influential factors in my career”.[40]

“There have been a few players described as ‘the new George Best’ over the years, but this is the first time it’s been a compliment to me.”

—Former Manchester United player George Best on the 18-year-old Ronaldo in 2003[41]

Ronaldo made his debut in the Premier League in a 4–0 home victory over Bolton Wanderers on 16 August 2003, receiving a standing ovation when he came on as a 60th-minute substitute for Nicky Butt.[42][43][44] His performance earned praise from George Best, who hailed it as “undoubtedly the most exciting debut” he had ever seen.[41] Ronaldo scored his first goal for Manchester United with a free kick in a 3–0 win over Portsmouth on 1 November.[45] Three other league goals followed in the second half of the campaign,[46][47] the last of which came against Aston Villa on the final day of the season, a game in which he also received his first red card.[48] Ronaldo ended his first season in English football by scoring the opening goal in United’s 3–0 victory over Millwall in the FA Cup final, earning his first trophy.[49]

Ronaldo playing against Chelsea in the Premier League, April 2006

At the start of 2005, Ronaldo played two of his best matches of the 2004–05 season, producing a goal and an assist against Aston Villa and scoring twice against rivals Arsenal.[50][51][52][53] After scoring four goals in United’s run to the FA Cup final,[54][55][56][57] he played the full 120 minutes of the decisive match against Arsenal, which ended in a goalless draw, and scored his attempt in the lost penalty shootout.[58] Although not yet a prolific goalscorer, Ronaldo scored three braces during the next campaign, the 2005–06 season, scoring two goals each against Bolton Wanderers,[59] Fulham,[60] and Portsmouth.[61] He scored Manchester United’s 1000th Premier League goal on 29 October, their only strike in a 4–1 loss to Middlesbrough.[62] Midway through the season, in November, he signed a new contract which extended his previous deal by two years to 2010, as he felt his time at the club was important for the development of his career.[63]Ronaldo won his second trophy in English football, the Football League Cup, after scoring the third goal in United’s 4–0 final victory overWigan Athletic.[64]

During his third season in England, Ronaldo was involved in several incidents. He had a one-match ban imposed on him by UEFA for a “one-fingered gesture” towards Benfica fans,[65] and was sent off in the Manchester derby—a 3–1 defeat—for kicking Manchester City‘s former United player Andy Cole.[66] Ronaldo clashed with a teammate, striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, who took offense at the winger’s showboating style of play.[67] Following a training ground fight in January 2006, the two again fought in May, with van Nistelrooy telling Ronaldo to “go crying to your daddy”, a reference to Ronaldo’s relationship with assistant manager Carlos Queiroz.[68] Van Nistelrooy was left on the substitutes’ bench for the final game of the season against Charlton Athletic—a 4–0 victory in which Ronaldo scored his ninth league goal—and was subsequently sold by the club.[69][70] Following the 2006 FIFA World Cup, in which he was involved in an incident where club teammateWayne Rooney was sent off,[71][72] Ronaldo publicly asked for a transfer, lamenting the lack of support he felt he had received from the club over the incident.[73][74] United, however, denied the possibility of him leaving the club.[75][76]

Although his World Cup altercation with Rooney resulted in Ronaldo being booed throughout the 2006–07 season,[77] it proved to be his breakout year, as he broke the 20-goal barrier for the first time and won his first Premier League title. An important factor in this success was his one-to-one training by first-team coach René Meulensteen, who taught him to make himself more unpredictable, improve his teamwork, call for the ball, and capitalise on goalscoring opportunities rather than waiting for the chance to score the aesthetically pleasing goals for which he was already known.[78] His upturn in form was showcased in November when he received a standing ovation from a section Blackburn Rovers supporters as he was substituted.[79] He scored three consecutive braces at the end of December, against Aston Villa—a victory which put United on top of the league—Wigan Athletic, and Reading.[80][81][82] Ronaldo was named the Premier League Player of the Month in November and December, becoming only the third player to receive consecutive honours.[83][84]

2007–09: Collective and individual success

Ronaldo during the 2006–07 season

At the quarter-final stage of the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, Ronaldo scored his first-ever goals in the competition, finding the net twice in a 7–1 victory over Roma.[85][86] He subsequently scored four minutes into the first semi-final leg against Milan, which ended in a 3–2 win,[87] but was marked out of the second leg as United lost 3–0 at the San Siro.[88] He also helped United reach the FA Cup final, putting them 2–1 up against Watford,[89] but the decisive match against Chelsea ended in a 1–0 defeat.[90] Ronaldo netted the only goal in the Manchester derby on 5 May 2007—his 50th goal for the club—as Manchester United claimed their first Premier League title in four years.[91] As a result of his performances, he amassed a host of personal awards for the season. He won the Professional Footballers’ Association‘s Player’s Player, Fans’ Player, and Young Player of the Year awards, as well as the Football Writers’ Association‘s Footballer of the Year award,[92][93] becoming the first player to win all four main PFA and FWA honours.[94] His club wages were concurrently upgraded to £120,000 a week (£31 million total) as part of a five-year contract extension with United.[95]

Ronaldo scored a total of 42 goals in all competitions during the 2007–08 season, his most prolific campaign during his time in England. His first goal of the season came against his former club, Sporting, with a header in the first group match of the Champions League.[96] He missed three matches after headbutting a Portsmouth player at the start of the season, an experience he said taught him not to let opponents provoke him,[97][98] but still managed to score 13 league goals by the campaign’s midway point.[99][100][101][102] At the end of 2007, four years after proclaiming his desire to become one of the world’s best players, Ronaldo achieved his goal when he was named runner-up to Kaká for the Ballon d’Or, as voted for by sports journalists,[103] and came third, behind Kaká and Lionel Messi, in the running for the FIFA World Player of the Year award, as determined by international managers and captains.[104]

“Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.”

—Dutch legend Johan Cruyff on the 23-year-old Ronaldo, April 2008.[105]

Ronaldo scored his first and only hat-trick for Manchester United in a 6–0 win against Newcastle United on 12 January 2008, bringing United up to the top of the Premier League table.[106] A month later, on 19 March, he captained United for the first time in a home win over Bolton, and scored both goals of the match.[107] His second goal was his 33rd of the campaign, which bettered George Best’s total of 32 goals in the 1967–68 season, thus setting the club’s new single-season record by a midfielder.[108] Ronaldo scored his final league goal of the season from the penalty spot in the title decider against Wigan on 11 May, as United claimed a second successive Premier League title.[109] His 31 league goals earned him the Premier League Golden Boot,[110] as well as the European Golden Shoe, which made him the first winger to win the latter award.[111]

Ronaldo playing against rivals Liverpool during the 2008–09 season

In the knockout stage of the Champions League, Ronaldo scored the decisive goal against Lyon, which helped United advance to the quarter-finals 2–1 on aggregate,[112] and, while playing as a striker, scored with a header in the 3–0 aggregate victory over Roma.[113] Despite him missing a penalty in the first leg against Barcelona,[114] United eventually advanced to the final in Moscow, where they faced Chelsea.[115] His opening goal was negated by an equaliser as the match ended in a 1–1 draw, but although his penalty was saved in the shoot-out,[116] Manchester United emerged victorious.[117][118] As the Champions League top scorer, Ronaldo was named the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year.[119] He additionally received the PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards for the second consecutive season.[120][121]

As rumours circulated of Ronaldo’s interest in moving to Real Madrid,[122][123] United filed a tampering complaint with governing body FIFA over Madrid’s alleged pursuit of their player, but they declined to take action.[124][125] FIFA president Sepp Blatter asserted that the player should be allowed to leave his club, describing the situation as “modern slavery”.[126] Despite Ronaldo publicly agreeing with Blatter,[127][128] he remained at United for another year.[129][130][131] Ahead of the 2008–09 season, on 7 July, he underwent ankle surgery,[132] which kept him out of action for 10 weeks.[133] Following his return, he scored his 100th goal in all competitions for United with the first of two free kicks in a 5–0 win against Stoke City on 15 November,[134] which meant he had now scored against all 19 opposition teams in the Premier League at the time.[135] Five days later, he received the third red card of his career when he was sent off against Manchester City.[136] At the close of 2008, Ronaldo helped United win theFIFA Club World Cup in Japan,[137] assisting the final-winning goal against Liga de Quito and winning the Silver Ball in the process.[138][139] He subsequently became United’s first Ballon d’Or winner since George Best in 1968,[140][141] and the first Premier League player to be named theFIFA World Player of the Year.[142]

Ronaldo scored his first Champions League goal of the season, and his first since the final against Chelsea, in a 2–0 victory over Inter Milan, sending United into the quarter-finals.[143] His match-winning goal in the second leg against Porto, a 40-yard strike, earned him the inaugural FIFA Puskás Award, presented by FIFA in recognition of the best goal of the year;[144] he later called it the best goal he had ever scored.[145][146] He scored twice against Arsenal, including a free kick from 39 yards, as United advanced to thefinal in Rome,[147] where he made little impact in United’s 2–0 defeat to Barcelona.[148][149] Ronaldo ended his time in England with nine throphies, as United claimed their third successive Premier League title and a Football League Cup.[150][151] He finished the campaign with 26 goals in all competitions, 16 goals fewer than the previous season, in four more appearances.[152] His final ever goal for Manchester United came on 10 May 2009 with a free kick in the Manchester derby at Old Trafford.[153]

Real Madrid

2009–12: World record transfer and La Liga championship

“I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is unbelievable. His stats are incredible. Strikes at goal, attempts on goal, raids into the penalty box, headers. It is all there.”

—Ronaldo’s former manager, Alex Ferguson, following his transfer to Real Madrid[154]

Ahead of the 2009–10 season, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid for a world record transfer fee of £80 million (€94 million).[155] His contract, which ran until 2015, was worth €11 million per year and contained a €1 billion buy-out clause.[156][157] At least 80,000 fans attended his presentation at the Santiago Bernabéu, surpassing the 25-year record of 75,000 fans who had welcomed Diego Maradona at Napoli.[158][159] Since club captain Raúl already wore the number 7,[160] Ronaldo received the number 9 shirt,[161] which was presented to him by Madrid legend Alfredo Di Stéfano.[162]

Ronaldo against Diego Forlán of city rivals Atlético Madrid during his first season in Spain

Ronaldo made his debut in La Liga on 29 August 2009, against Deportivo La Coruña, and scored from the penalty spot in Madrid’s 3–2 home win.[163] He scored in each of his first four league fixtures with the club, the first Madrid player to do so.[164] His first Champions League goals for the club followed with two free kicks in the first group match against Zürich.[165] His strong start to the season, however, was interrupted when he suffered an ankle injury in October while on international duty, which kept him sidelined for seven weeks.[166][167] A week after his return, he received his first red card in Spain in a match against Almería, which also saw him miss a penalty.[168] Midway through the season, Ronaldo placed second in the running for theBallon d’Or and the FIFA World Player of the Year award, behind Lionel Messi of Barcelona, Madrid’s historic rivals. He finished the campaign with 33 goals in all competitions, including a hat-trick in a 4–1 win against Mallorca on 5 May 2010, his first in the Spanish competition.[169][170] His first season at Real Madrid ended trophyless.[171]

Following Raúl’s departure, Ronaldo was handed the number 7 shirt for Real Madrid before the 2010–11 season.[160] His subsequent return to his Ballon d’Or-winning form was epitomised when, for the first time in his career, he scored four goals in a single match during a 6–1 rout against Racing Santander on 23 October.[172] His haul concluded a goalscoring run of six consecutive matches—three in La Liga, one in the Champions League, and two for Portugal—totalling 11 goals, the most he had scored in a single month. Ronaldo subsequently netted further hat-tricks against Athletic Bilbao, Levante, Villarreal, andMálaga.[173][174][175] Despite his scoring rate, he failed to make the podium for the inaugural FIFA Ballon d’Or at the end of 2010, marking the only year during his time in Spain to date that he was not named one of the world’s two best players.[176]

During a historical series of four Clásicos against rivals Barcelona in April 2011, Ronaldo scored twice to equal his personal record of 42 goals in all competitions in a single season. Although he failed to find the net during Madrid’s eventual elimination in the Champions League semi-finals, he equalised from the penalty spot in the return league game and scored the match-winning goal in the 103rd minute of the Copa del Rey final, winning his first trophy in Spain.[177][178] Over the next two weeks, Ronaldo scored another four-goal haul against Sevilla,[179][180] a hat-trick against Getafe,[181] and a brace of free kicks against Villarreal, taking his league total to 38 goals, which equalled the record for most goals scored in a season held by Telmo Zarra and Hugo Sánchez.[182] His two goals in the last match of the season, against Almería, made him the first player in La Liga to score 40 goals.[183][184] In addition to the Pichichi Trophy, Ronaldo consequently won the European Golden Shoe for a second time, becoming the first player to win the award in two different leagues.[185] He ended his second season at Real Madrid with a total of 53 goals in all competitions.[186]

Ronaldo playing againstCSKA Moscow, February 2012

During the following campaign, the 2011–12 season, Ronaldo surpassed his previous goalscoring feats to achieve a new personal best of 60 goals across all competitions.[187] His 100th goal for Real Madrid came at Camp Nou in the Supercopa de España, though Barcelona claimed the trophy 5–4 on aggregate.[188] He regained a place on the FIFA Ballon d’Or podium, as runner-up to Messi, after scoring hat-tricks against Real Zaragoza, Rayo Vallecano, Málaga, Osasuna, and Sevilla, the last of which put Madrid on top of the league by the season’s midway point.[189][190][191][192][193] Despite two goals from Ronaldo, Madrid were subsequently defeated by Barcelona 4–3 on aggregrate in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey. He again scored twice, including a penalty, in the Champions League semi-finals against Bayern Munich, resulting in a 3–3 draw, but his penalty kick in the shootout was saved by Manuel Neuer, leading to Madrid’s elimination.[194]

Ronaldo found greater team success in the league, as he helped Real Madrid win their first La Liga title in four years, with a record 100 points. Following a hat-trick against Levante, further increasing Madrid’s lead over Barcelona,[195] he scored his 100th league goal for Madrid in a 5–1 win over Real Sociedad on 24 March 2012, a milestone he reached in just 92 matches across three seasons, breaking the previous club record held by Ferenc Puskás.[196] Another hat-trick in the Madrid derby against Atlético Madrid brought his total to 40 league goals, equalling his record of the previous season.[197] His final league goal of the campaign, against Mallorca, took his total to 46 goals, four short of the new record set by Messi,[198] and earned him the distinction of being the first player to score against all 19 opposition teams in a single season in La Liga.[11]

Ronaldo began the 2012–13 season by lifting the Supercopa de España, his third trophy in Spain. With a goal in each leg by the Portuguese, Madrid won the supercup on away goals following a 4–4 aggregate draw against Barcelona.[199] Although Ronaldo publicly commented that he was unhappy with a “professional issue” within the club, prompted by his refusal to celebrate his 150th goal for Madrid,[200] his goalscoring rate did not suffer. After netting a hat-trick, including two penalties, against Deportivo La Coruña, he scored his first hat-trick in the Champions League in a 4–1 victory over Ajax.[201] Four days later, he became the first player to score in six successive Clásicos when he hit a brace in a 2–2 draw at Camp Nou.[202] His performances in 2012 again saw Ronaldo voted second in the running for the FIFA Ballon d’Or, finishing runner-up to four-time winner Messi.[203]

2013–14: Consecutive Ballon d’Or wins and La Décima

Following the 2012–13 winter break, Ronaldo captained Real Madrid for the first time in an official match, scoring a brace to lift 10-man Madrid to a 4–3 victory over Real Sociedad on 6 January.[204][205] He subsequently became the first non-Spanish player in 60 years to captain Madrid in El Clásico on 30 January, a match which also marked his 500th club appearance.[206] Three days prior, he had scored his 300th club goal as part of a perfect hat-trick against Getafe.[207] Following hat-tricks against Celta Vigo and Sevilla,[208][209] he scored his 200th goal for Real Madrid on 8 May in a 6–2 win against Málaga, reaching the landmark in just 197 games.[210] He helped Madrid reach the Copa del Rey final by scoring a brace in El Clásico, which marked the sixth successive match at Camp Nou in which he had scored,[211] a scoring streak twice as long as that of any other player in Madrid’s history.[199] In the final, he headed the opening goal of an eventual 2–1 defeat to Atlético Madrid,[212] but was shown a straight red card in the 114th minute for violent conduct.[213][214] Real Madrid also failed to defend their La Liga title, finishing runners up to Barcelona.

In the first knockout round of the Champions League, Ronaldo faced his former club Manchester United for the first time. After scoring the equalizer in a 1–1 draw at the Santiago Bernabéu,[215] he netted the match-winning goal in a 2–1 victory at Old Trafford, his first return to his former home grounds;[216] afterwards, he commented that he felt sadness at having caused United’s elimination from the competition.[217] Ronaldo scored three goals in Madrid’s 5–3 aggregate victory over Galatasaray to see them advance to the semi-finals,[218][219] He scored Madrid’s only goal in the 4–1 away defeat to Borussia Dortmund,[220] but failed to increase his side’s 2–0 victory in the second leg, as they were eliminated at the semi-final stage for the third consecutive year.[221] Ronaldo had scored 12 goals, finishing as the Champions League top goalscorer for a second time in his career. Accounting for all competitions, he ended the season with a total of 55 goals.[222]

Ronaldo against Atlético Madrid in September 2013

Real Madrid’s failure to win major silverware and reports of division among the players prompted speculation regarding Ronaldo’s future at the club.[223][224][225] At the start of the 2013–14 season, however, he signed a new contract that extended his stay by three years to 2018, with a salary of €17 million net, making him briefly the highest-paid player in football.[226][227] He was joined at the club by winger Gareth Bale, whose world record transfer fee of €100 million surpassed the fee Madrid had paid for Ronaldo four years prior.[228] Together with striker Karim Benzema, they formed an attacking trio popularly dubbed BBC, an acronym of Bale, Benzema, and Cristiano.[229] After enjoying a strong goalscoring run during the first half of the campaign, Ronaldo suggested that he was in the best form of his career.[230] By late November, he had scored 32 goals from 22 matches played for both club and country, including hat-tricks against Galatasaray, Sevilla, Real Sociedad, Northern Ireland, and Sweden.[231][232][233][234][235] He ended 2013 with a total of 69 goals in 59 appearances, his highest year-end goal tally.[236][237] His efforts earned him the FIFA Ballon d’Or for a second time in his career, though the media vote favoured Franck Ribéry.[238][239] The achievement fuelled public recognition of Ronaldo as one of the greatest players in football history.[240][241][242]

Concurrently with his individual achievements, Ronaldo enjoyed his greatest team success in Spain to date, as he helped Real Madrid win La Décima, their tenth European Cup. In the knockout phase of the competition, he scored a brace in each leg of a 9–2 aggregate win againstSchalke 04,[243] helping Madrid advance to the quarter-finals. His goal in a 3–0 home win over Borussia Dortmund—his 100th Champions League match—took his total for the season to 14 goals, equalling the record Messi had set two years before.[244][245][246] After hitting a brace in a 4–0 defeat of Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena,[247] he scored from the penalty spot in the 120th minute of the 4–1 final victory over Atlético Madrid, becoming the first player to score in two European Cup finals for two different winning teams.[248] His overall performance in the final was subdued as a result of patellar tendinitisand related hamstring problems, which had plagued him in the last months of the campaign. Ronaldo played the final against medical advice, later commenting: “In your life you do not win without sacrifices and you must take risks.”[249] As the Champions League top goalscorer for the third time, with a record 17 goals,[250][251] he was named the UEFA Best Player in Europe.[252]

In the Copa del Rey, Ronaldo helped Madrid reach the final by scoring a brace of penalties against Atlético Madrid at the Vicente Calderón,[253] the first of which meant he had now scored in every single minute of a 90-minute football match.[254] His continued issues with his knee and thigh caused him to miss the final,[249][255] where Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 2–1 to claim the trophy.[256] While Madrid were less successful in La Liga, finishing third, Ronaldo was unmatched as a goalscorer. He scored 31 goals in 30 league games, which earned him the Pichichi and the European Golden Shoe, receiving the latter award jointly with Liverpool striker Luis Suárez.[257] Among his haul was his 400th career goal, in 653 appearances for club and country, which came with a brace against Celta Vigo on 6 January; he dedicated his goals to Portuguese legend Eusébio, who had died two days before.[258] A last-minute, backheeled volley scored against Valencia on 4 May—his 50th goal in all competitions—was recognised as the best goal of the season by the Liga de Fútbol Profesional,[259][260] which additionally named Ronaldo the Best Player in La Liga.[261]

“Cristiano Ronaldo is changing the game in Spain. With all that pace and power and athleticism, he is driving Real Madrid back into dominance both there and in Europe.”

—Former Manchester United player Bobby Charlton, November 2014[262]

During the next campaign, the 2014–15 season, Ronaldo set a new personal best of 61 goals in all competitions, starting with both goals in Real Madrid’s 2–0 victory over Sevilla in the UEFA Super Cup.[263][264] He subsequently achieved his best-ever goalscoring start to a league campaign, with a record 15 goals in the first eight rounds of La Liga, including a four-goal haul against Elche and hat-tricks against Deportivo La Coruña and Athletic Bilbao.[265][266][267][268] His record 23rd hat-trick in La Liga, scored against Celta Vigo on 6 December, made him the fastest player to reach 200 goals in the Spanish league, as he reached the milestone in only his 178th game.[13][268]After lifting the FIFA Club World Cup with Madrid in Morocco,[269] again winning the Silver Ball,[270][271] Ronaldo received a second successive FIFA Ballon d’Or,[272][273] joining Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, and Marco van Basten as a three-time Ballon d’Or winner.[274][275]

2015–present: All-time Real Madrid goalscorer

Ronaldo playing againstFC Schalke 04 in March 2015

Following the winter break, Ronaldo’s form faltered, concurrently with a decline in performance by his team.[276] A 2–1 defeat against Valencia in the first match of 2015, despite his opening goal, ended Real Madrid’s Spanish record winning streak of 22 matches in all competitions.[277] Their season continued unsuccessfully as they failed to win a major trophy, earning a second-place league finish and a semi-final exit in Europe.[278] In the latter competition, Ronaldo extended his run of scoring away to a record 12 matches with his strike in a 2–0 win against Schalke 04,[279] before hitting a brace in the 3–4 return defeat that allowed Madrid to progress to the quarter-finals.[280] He then scored both of his side’s goals in the semi-finals against Juventus, where Madrid were eliminated 2–3 on aggregate.[281] With 10 goals, he finished the campaign as top scorer for a third consecutive season, alongside Messi and Neymar.[282]

In La Liga, where Madrid finished second, Ronaldo went on a prolific goalscoring run towards the very end of the season. For the first time in his career, he scored five goals in one game, including an eight-minute hat-trick, in a 9–1 rout of Granada on 5 April.[283] His 300th goal for his club followed three days later in a 2–0 win against Rayo Vallecano.[284] Subsequent hat-tricks against Sevilla, Espanyol, and Getafe took his number of hat-tricks for Real Madrid to 31, surpassing Di Stéfano’s club record of 28 trebles.[263][285] As a result, Ronaldo finished the season with 48 goals, two ahead of his total in the 2011–12 season, despite having missed two matches in February for assaulting a Córdoba player.[286] In addition to a second consecutive Pichichi, he won the European Golden Shoe for a record fourth time.[263][287]

At the start of his seventh season at Real Madrid, the 2015–16 campaign, Ronaldo became the club’s all-time top scorer, first in the league and then in all competitions. His five-goal haul in a 6–0 away win over Espanyol on 12 September took his tally in La Liga to 230 goals in 203 games, surpassing the club’s previous recordholder, Raúl.[288][289] A month later, on 17 October, he again surpassed Raúl when he scored the second goal in a 3–0 defeat of Levante at the Bernabéu to take his overall total for the club to 324 goals.[note 1] Ronaldo also became the all-time top scorer in the Champions League with a hat-trick in the first group match against Shakhtar Donetsk, having finished the previous season level with Messi on 77 goals.[292] A brace against Malmö, netted in a 2–0 away win on 30 September, saw him reach the milestone of 500 career goals for both club and country.[4][293] He subsequently became the first player to score double figures in the competition’s group stage, setting the record at 11 goals, including another four-goal haul against Malmö.[294][295]

Despite finishing runner-up to Messi for the FIFA Ballon d’Or,[296] Ronaldo received criticism for his form and performances against top teams, with 14 of his goals coming against Espanyol and Malmö.[297][298] During the second half of the season, however, his form gradually improved.[299] By scoring four goals in a 7–1 home win over Celta Vigo on 5 March 2016, Ronaldo arrived at 252 goals in La Liga to become the competition’s second-highest scorer in history behind Messi.[300] After netting the match-winning goal for 10-man Madrid in a 2–1 Clásico victory on 2 April,[301] he scored a hat-trick against Wolfsburg to send his club into the Champions League semi-finals despite a 2–0 first-leg defeat.[302]

International career

2001–06: Career beginnings

A Portuguese international, Ronaldo began his youth career in 2001. Apart from the under-15 team, he also represented the under-17, under-20, under-21, and under-23 national sides, amassing 34 youth caps and scoring 18 goals overall.[303] He represented his country at the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship, where they failed to progress past the group stage.[27] Ronaldo also featured in the Olympic squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics, scoring one goal in the tournament, though the team was eliminated in the first round, finishing bottom of their group with three points after 4–2 defeats to eventual semi-finalists Iraq and quarter-finalists Costa Rica.[304][305]

At age 18, Ronaldo earned his first senior cap in a 1–0 victory over Kazakhstan on 20 August 2003.[306] He was subsequently called up for UEFA Euro 2004, held in his home country,[307] and scored his first international goal in a 2–1 group stage loss to eventual champions Greece.[308] After converting his penalty in a shootout against England at the quarter-final stage,[309] he helped Portugal reach the final by scoring the opening goal in a 2–1 win over the Netherlands,[310] but the crucial last match ended in a 0–1 defeat.[311]He was featured in the team of the tournament, having provided two assists in addition to his two goals.[312][313]

Ronaldo was the second-highest scorer in the European qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup with seven goals.[313] During the tournament, he scored his first World Cup goal against Iran with a penalty kick in Portugal’s second match of the group stage.[314] In the quarter-finals against England, his Manchester United teammate Wayne Rooney was sent off for stamping on Portugal defender Ricardo Carvalho. Although the referee later clarified that the red card was only due to Rooney’s infraction,[315] the English media speculated that Ronaldo had influenced his decision by aggressively complaining, after which he was seen in replays winking at Portugal’s bench following Rooney’s dismissal.[316] Ronaldo was subsequently booed during their 1–0 semi-final defeat to France.[317] FIFA’s Technical Study Group overlooked him for the tournament’s Best Young Player award, citing his behaviour as a factor in the decision.[318]

2006–12: Captaincy

Ronaldo, pictured playing against Germany at Euro 2012, was made captain in 2008.

Post World Cup, one day after his 22nd birthday, Ronaldo captained Portugal for the first time in a friendly game against Brazil on 6 February 2007,[319] as requested by Portuguese Football Federation president Carlos Silva, who had died two days earlier.[320] Ahead of Euro 2008, he was given the number 7 shirt for the first time.[321] While he scored eight goals in the qualification,[322] the second-highest tally, he scored just one goal in the tournament, netting the second goal of their 3–1 win in the group stage match against the Czech Republic, where he was named man of the match.[323] Portugal were eliminated in the quarter-finals with a 3–2 loss against eventual finalists Germany.[324]

After Portugal’s unsuccessful performance in the European Championship, Luiz Felipe Scolari was replaced as coach by Carlos Queiroz, formerly the assistant manager at United.[325] Queiroz made Ronaldo the squad’s permanent captain in July 2008.[326] Ronaldo failed to score a single goal in the qualification for the 2010 World Cup, as Portugal narrowly avoided a premature elimination from the tournament with a play-off victory overBosnia.[327] At the group stage of the World Cup, he was named man of the match in all three matches against Côte d’Ivoire, North Korea, and Brazil.[328][329][330] His only goal of the tournament came in their 7–0 rout of North Korea,[331] which marked his first international goal in 16 months.[332] Portugal’s World Cup ended with a 1–0 loss against eventual champions Spain in the round of 16.[333]

Ronaldo scored seven goals in the qualification for Euro 2012, including two strikes against Bosnia in the play-offs, to send Portugal into the tournament, where they were drawn in a “group of death“.[334] After the opening 0–1 defeat to Germany, he also failed to score in the 3–2 win against Denmark, missing two clear one-on-one chances,[335][336] which led to criticism from his countrymen for underperforming.[337] He redeemed himself in the last group match against the Netherlands, where he scored twice to secure a 2–1 victory,[338] and the quarter-finals against the Czech Republic, scoring a header to give his team a 1–0 win.[339][340] He was named man of the match against both opponents.[341][342] After the semi-finals against Spain ended scoreless, with Ronaldo having sent three shots over the bar,[343] Portugal were eliminated in the penalty shootout. Ronaldo did not take a penalty as he had been slated to take the unused fifth,[344] a decision that drew criticism.[345][346] As the joint top scorer with three goals, alongside five other players, he was again included in the team of the tournament.[347]

2012–present: All-time Portugal and Euro goalscorer

During the qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Ronaldo scored a total of eight goals. A qualifying match on 17 October 2012, a 1–1 draw against Northern Ireland, earned him his 100th cap.[348] His first international hat-trick also came against Northern Ireland, when he found the net three times in a 15-minute spell of a 4–2 qualifying victory on 6 September 2013.[349] After Portugal failed to qualify during the regular campaign, Ronaldo scored all four of the team’s goals in the play-offs against Sweden, which ensured their place at the tournament.[350] His hat-trick in the second leg took his international tally to 47 goals, equalling Pauleta‘s record.[351] Ronaldo subsequently netted twice in a 5–1 friendly win over Cameroon on 5 March 2014 to become his country’s all-time top scorer.[352]

Ronaldo taking on club teammateLuka Modrić during a friendly match against Croatia

Going into the World Cup, as Portugal’s only star player, Ronaldo was primarily responsible for any possible success.[353] As a result, he took part in the tournament despite suffering from patellar tendinitis and a related thigh injury,[354][355] potentially risking his career.[356]Ronaldo later commented: “If we had two or three Cristiano Ronaldos in the team I would feel more comfortable. But we don’t.”[357]Despite ongoing doubts over his fitness, he played the full 90 minutes of the opening match against Germany, but was unable to prevent a 4–0 defeat.[358] After assisting an injury-time 2–2 equaliser against the United States,[359] he scored a late match-winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Ghana.[360] His 50th international goal made him the first Portuguese to play and score in three World Cups.[361] Portugal were eliminated from the tournament at the close of the group stage on goal difference.[360]

Ronaldo scored five goals, including a hat-trick against Armenia, in the qualification for Euro 2016.[362][363][364][365] With the only goal in another victory over Armenia on 14 November 2014, he reached 23 goals in the European Championship, including qualifying matches, to become the competition’s all-time leading goalscorer.[366]

Player profile

Style of play

Ronaldo in action for Real Madrid against Espanyol in December 2012

Ronaldo is a versatile attacker, capable of playing on either wing as well as through the center of the pitch.[367] Ronaldo is known to be mentally sharp, with good vision and positioning, often predicting certain plays; he also possesses quick reactions, opportunism, balance, and agility.[368] Although right-footed, he is also able to control the ball, cross, and finish well with his left foot.[368]

Ronaldo is known for his technical skill, control and dribbling ability, as well as his flair in beating players during one on one situations.[369]A prolific goalscorer, he is able to finish well both inside the area and from distance with an accurate and powerful shot.[154][370] He is also an accurate penalty kick and set piece specialist, who is renowned for his powerful, bending free kicks.[371] His height, strength, jumping ability and heading technique have given him an edge in winning aerial challenges for balls, with many of his goals often being headers.[369][372] He is also known for his stamina, and in particular, his great pace and acceleration, both with and without the ball; in 2014 he was named one of the fastest football players in the world.[373]

Ronaldo controlling the ball on his chest during a La Liga game againstUD Almería

Ronaldo has undergone several tactical evolutions throughout his career. While at Sporting and during his first season at Manchester United, he was typically deployed as a traditional winger on the right side of midfield. In this position, he was able to use his pace, agility, and technical skills to take on opponents in one-on-one situations, often displaying an array of tricksand feints, such as the stepovers with which he became widely associated.[369][374] In his youth, he also regularly undertook individualdribbling runs.[368] As he matured, he underwent a major physical transformation, developing a muscular body type that allows him to retain possession of the ball.[375] Concurrently with his increased work-rate and strength, his goalscoring ability improved drastically on the left wing, where he was given the positional freedom to move into the centre to finish attacks. He increasingly played a creative role for his team, participating in build-up plays courtesy of his good vision and passing ability.[368]

In his final seasons at United, Ronaldo played an even more prolific, attacking, and central role, functioning both as a striker and as asupporting forward, or even as an attacking midfielder on occasion.[368] At Real Madrid, he continued to play a more offensive role, while his creative and defensive duties became more limited.[368] Initially deployed as a centre-forward, he was later moved back onto the left wing, though in a free tactical role, allowing him to drift into the centre at will.[368][376][377] Madrid’s counter-attacking style of play allowed him to become a more efficient and consistent player, as evidenced by his record-breaking goalscoring feats.[378] In recent seasons, he effectively adapted his style to the physical effects of ageing with increasingly reduced off-the-ball movement and general involvement, instead focusing on short-distance goalscoring.[374]

Reception

Despite receiving acclaim for his skill and prolific goalscoring, Ronaldo has at times been criticised for diving when tackled, about which his former Real Madrid manager José Mourinho responded: “Cristiano is a player who does not have the culture of the swimming pool, he has no culture of simulation, he is a British-trained player, Ferguson trained. In some cases, the simulators are given more protection, and those who are honest are often the losers. I’m not a hypocrite if I say that they [defenders] hit Cristiano very hard, and that the yellow cards do not arrive or are slow in coming”.[379] Despite his talent, he was also criticised early in his career by manager Alex Ferguson, team mates and media for being selfish or overly flamboyant.[380][381] During the next few seasons, however, Ronaldo developed into more of a team player,

Earlier in his career, Ronaldo had occasionally been criticised for being a “selfish” or overly flamboyant player;[380] he had also been described as having an “arrogant image” on the field, with Ronaldo stating that he had become a “victim”, because of how he was portrayed in the media.[382] He is often seen moaning, gesticulating and scowling while trying to inspire his team to victory, with Ronaldo insisting that his competitive nature should not be mistaken for arrogance.[382] His managers, team-mates and various journalists have commented that this reputation has caused an unfair image of him.[368][383][384][385][386][387][388] In 2014, Ronaldo told France Football that he had made a “mistake” when he said in 2011, “People are jealous of me as I am young handsome and rich”, adding that he had matured since then and fans understood him better.[389]

Widely regarded as one of the two best players in the world within his generation (the other being Lionel Messi),[390][391] and as one of the best players to ever play the game,[392]Ronaldo’s talent, skill and consistent goalscoring ability have led him to be considered a decisive player, who stands out in games, and who can be a match changer.[393]

“Maturity brings many things. When I went to see them play against City, some of his decision-making in terms of passing was brilliant. One-touch passing, good crosses. In the six years we had him, you just saw his game grow all the time, and he was a fantastic player. Now you see the complete player. His decision-making, his maturity, his experience, plus all the great skills he has got, they all make him the complete player”.[394]

— Alex Ferguson on the 27-year-old Ronaldo, January 2013

Some figures in football, such as Mike Clegg (former Manchester United strength and conditioning coach) and French great Zinedine Zidane, have praised Ronaldo’s work ethic and dedication to improvement on the training field.[395][396] His drive and determination is fuelled by a desire to carve his name in history alongside footballing legends such asPelé and Diego Maradona,[397] but he has also stated that he would rather be remembered as a role model than one of world football’s best players.[398]

Comparisons to Lionel Messi

Ronaldo with Lionel Messibefore an international friendlybetween Portugal and Argentinain Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 February 2011

Both players have scored in two UEFA Champions League finals and have regularly broken the 50 goal barrier in a single season. Sports journalists and pundits regularly argue the individual merits of both players in an attempt to argue who they believe is the best player in modern football.[399] It has been compared to legendary sports rivalries such as the Muhammad AliJoe Frazier rivalry in boxing, the Borg–McEnroe rivalry in tennis, and the Ayrton SennaAlain Prost rivalry from Formula One motor racing.[400][401]

“It’s part of my life now. People are bound to compare us. He tries to do his best for his club and for his national team, as I do, and there is a degree of rivalry with both of us trying to do the best for the teams we represent.”

—Cristiano Ronaldo commenting on his rivalry with Messi.[402]

Some commentators choose to analyse the differing physiques and playing styles of the two,[403] while part of the debate revolves around the contrasting personalities of the two players: Ronaldo is sometimes depicted as an arrogant and theatrical showoff, while Messi is portrayed as a shy, humble character.[404][405][406][407]

In a 2012 interview, Ronaldo commented on the rivalry, saying “I think we push each other sometimes in the competition, this is why the competition is so high”,[408] while Ronaldo’s manager during his time at Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, opined that “I don’t think the rivalry against each other bothers them. I think they have their own personal pride in terms of wanting to be the best”.[409] Messi himself denied any rivalry, saying that it was “only the media, the press, who wants us to be at loggerheads but I’ve never fought with Cristiano”.[410] Responding to the claims that he and Messi do not get on well on a personal level, Ronaldo commented; “We don’t have a relationship outside the world of football, just as we don’t with a lot of other players”, before adding that in years to come he hopes they can laugh about it together, stating; “We have to look on this rivalry with a positive spirit, because it’s a good thing.”[402]Representing arch rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid, the two players face each other at least twice every season in the world’s biggest club game, El Clásico, which had a global audience of 400 million viewers in March 2014.[411]

In a debate at Oxford Union in October 2013, when asked whether FIFA president Sepp Blatter preferred Messi or Ronaldo, Blatter paid tribute to the work ethic of the Argentine before taking a swipe at Ronaldo, claiming “one of them has more expenses for the hairdresser than the other”. Real Madrid demanded – and promptly received – a full apology, and the Portuguese issued his own riposte with a mock-salute celebration after scoring a penalty against Sevilla, after Blatter had described him as a “commander” on the pitch.[412]

In popular culture

Forbes has twice ranked Ronaldo first on their list of the world’s highest-paid football players; his combined income from salaries, bonuses and off-field earnings was $73 million in 2013–14 and $79 million in 2014–15.[413][414] The latter earnings saw him listed behind only boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. on the magazine’s list of The World’s Highest-Paid Athletes.[415] Ronaldo is one of the world’s most marketable athletes: SportsPro rated him the fifth most marketable athlete in 2012,[416] and eighth most marketable athlete in 2013, with Brazilian footballer Neymar topping both lists.[416][417] Sports market research company Repucom named Ronaldo the most marketable and most recognized football player in the world in May 2014.[418] He was additionally named in the 2014 Time 100, Times annual list of the most influential people in the world.[419]

As his reputation rapidly grew from his time at Manchester United, Ronaldo signed many sponsorship deals, including with the U.S. sportswear company Nike.[420][421][422][423] He has worn Nike Mercurial boots his entire career,[424] alternating between the Vapor and Superfly models depending on which is the top-tier Nike boot at the time. Since 2010, Nike have created signature Ronaldo boots, the first being the Superfly II Safari CR7,[425] and the latest, in 2014, the Mercurial Superfly CR7.[426] His other endorsement deals includeCoca-Cola, Emporio Armani, Castrol, Banco Espirito Santo, Motorola, Jacob & Co, KFC, Tag Heuer, Fly Emirates, Samsung, Herbalife and Pokerstars.[421][427][428][429][430][431][432]Ronaldo was the face of Konami‘s video games Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2013.[433] He also features in EA SportsFIFAvideo game series as well as the spin-off franchise FIFA Street, appearing in every game since FIFA Football 2004 and on the cover of FIFA Street 2. The former series features Ronaldo’s “Thigh Flex” (FIFA 13), “The Bear” (FIFA 14), “Calm Down” (FIFA 14) and “Right Here Right Now” (FIFA 15) celebrations.[434]

Ronaldo has established a strong online presence; the most popular sportsperson on social media, he counted 158 million total followers across Facebook, Twitter and Instagramby June 2015.[435] As of June 2015, he has the world’s biggest Facebook fanbase with 103 million followers:[435] he became the first sportsperson to reach 50 million followers in August 2010,[436] and in October 2014, he became the first sportsperson, and the second person after Shakira, to reach 100 million followers.[437] He is also the most-followed athlete on Twitter with 37.8 million followers as of September 2015,[438] and is the most-followed footballer on Instagram with 33.6 million followers as of October 2015.[439]Ronaldo has released two mobile apps: in December 2011, he launched an iPhone game called Heads Up with Cristiano, created by developer RockLive,[440] and in December 2013, he launched Viva Ronaldo, a dedicated social networking website and mobile app.[441] Computer security company McAfee produced a 2012 report ranking footballers by the probability of an internet search for their name leading to an unsafe website, with Ronaldo’s name first on the list.[442]

The opening of the Cristiano Ronaldo Museum, “CR7”, in Funchal, Madeira, took place on 15 December 2013.

Ronaldo’s life and person have been the subject of several works. His autobiography, titled Moments, was published in December 2007.[443] His sponsor Castro produced the television film Ronaldo: Tested to the Limit, in which he is physically and mentally tested in several fields; his physical performance was consequently subject to scrutiny by world media upon the film’s release in September 2011.[444] Cristiano Ronaldo: The World at his Feet, a documentary narrated by the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, was released via Vimeoand Vision Films in June 2014.[445] A documentary film about his life and career, titled Ronaldo, was released worldwide on 9 November 2015.[438] Directed by BAFTA-winner Anthony Wonke, the film is produced and distributed by Universal Pictures, while Asif Kapadia is the executive producer.[446]

In December 2013, Ronaldo opened a museum, Museu CR7, in his hometown of Funchal, Madeira, to house trophies and memorabilia of his life and playing career.[447] At a ceremony held at the Belém Palace in January 2014, President of Portugal Aníbal Cavaco Silva raised Ronaldo to the rank of Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry, “to distinguish an athlete of world renown who has been a symbol of Portugal globally, contributing to the international projection of the country and setting an example of tenacity for future generations”.[448] A bronze statue of Ronaldo, designed by artist Ricardo Madeira Veloso, was unveiled in Funchal on 21 December 2014.[449][450]

In June 2010, during the build-up to the World Cup, Ronaldo became the fourth footballer – after Steven Gerrard, Pelé and David Beckham – to be represented as a waxwork atMadame Tussauds London.[451] Another waxwork of him was presented at the Madrid Wax Museum in December 2013.[452] In June 2015, astronomers led by David Sobral fromLisbon and Leiden discovered a galaxy which they named CR7 (Cosmos Redshift 7) in tribute to Cristiano Ronaldo in reference to his CR7 mantle (his initials and shirt number).[453][454]

Outside football

Personal life

Ronaldo during his spell atReal Madrid

Ronaldo’s father, José Dinis Aveiro, died of an alcoholism-related liver condition at the age of 52 in September 2005 when Ronaldo was 20.[455][456] Ronaldo has said that he does not drink alcohol and he received libel damages over a Daily Mirror article that reported him drinking heavily in a nightclub while recovering from an injury in July 2008.[457]

In October 2005, a month after his father died, Ronaldo was arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in a London hotel and released on bail.[458]Ronaldo denied the allegations and charges were dropped by Scotland Yard in November 2005 due to “insufficient evidence”. Ronaldo issued a statement saying: “I have always strongly maintained my innocence of any wrong-doing and I am glad that this matter is at an end so that I can concentrate on playing for Manchester United”.[459]

Ronaldo became a father on 17 June 2010 following the birth of a son.[460] The child, named Cristiano, and nicknamed by the family ‘Cristianinho’,[461] was born in the United States,[462] and Ronaldo announced that he had full custody.[463] Ronaldo has never publicly revealed the identity of his son’s mother.[464]

Ronaldo has previously dated English models Alice Goodwin[465] and Gemma Atkinson. In 2010, he began dating Russian model Irina Shayk, whom he reportedly met through their Armani Exchange campaigns.[466] Ronaldo and Shayk appeared together on the May 2014 cover ofVogues Spanish edition.[467] The couple ended their relationship in January 2015.[468] He is a Roman Catholic.[469] Ronaldo does not have tattoosas it would prevent him from donating blood, which he does several times a year.[470] In August 2015, Ronaldo bought an $18.5 million loft in Trump Tower in New York City.[471]

Philanthropy

Television footage of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami showed an eight-year-old boy survivor named Martunis wearing a No. 7 Portuguese football shirt who was stranded for 19 days after his family was killed. Following this, Ronaldo visited Aceh, Indonesia, to raise funds for rehabilitation and reconstruction.[472][473] After accepting undisclosed damages from a libel case against The Sun newspaper in 2008, Ronaldo donated the damages to a charity in Madeira.[474] In 2009, Ronaldo donated £100,000 to the hospital that saved his mother’s life in Madeira following her battle with cancer, so that they could build a cancer centre on the island.[475] In support of the victims of the 2010 Madeira flood, Ronaldo pledged to play in a charity match in Madeira between the Primeira Liga club FC Porto and players from Madeiran-based clubs Marítimo and Nacional.[476]

In 2012, Ronaldo and his agent paid for specialist treatment for a nine-year-old Canarian boy with apparently terminal cancer.[477] In November 2012, Ronaldo sold the golden boot he had won in 2011 for €1.5 million and gave the money to fund schools for children in Gaza.[478] In December 2012, Ronaldo joined FIFA’s ’11 for Health’ programme to raise awareness amongst kids of how to steer clear of conditions including drug addiction, HIV, malaria and obesity.[479][480]

In January 2013, Ronaldo became Save the Children‘s new Global Artist Ambassador, in which he hopes to help fight child hunger and obesity.[481] In March, Ronaldo agreed to be the ambassador for The Mangrove Care Forum in Indonesia, an organisation aiming to raise awareness of mangrove conservation.[482]

In November 2014, Ronaldo appeared in FIFA’s “11 against Ebola” campaign with a selection of top football players from around the world, including Neymar, Gareth Bale, Xaviand African star Didier Drogba.[483] Under the slogan “Together, we can beat Ebola”, FIFA’s campaign was done in conjunction with the Confederation of African Football and health experts, with the players holding up eleven messages to raise awareness of the disease and ways to combat it.[483]

Fashion

Ronaldo is known as a fashion icon, and is a lucrative spokesperson sought after by clothing designers, health and fitness specialists, fashion magazines, perfume and cosmetics manufacturers, hair stylists, exercise promoters, and spa and recreation companies. One example is a line of fragrances called Legacy.[484]

He opened his first fashion boutique under the name “CR7” (his initials and shirt number) on the island of Madeira, Portugal in 2006. Ronaldo expanded his business with a second clothes boutique in Lisbon in 2008. The stores include diamond-studded belts, jeans with leather pockets and patented buckled loafers. The store also sells slinky outfits for women.[485]

In partnership with Scandinavian manufacturer JBS Textile Group and the New York fashion designer Richard Chai, Ronaldo co-designed a range of underwear and sock line, released in November 2013.[486] He later expanded his CR7 fashion brand by launching a line of premium shirts[487] and shoes by July 2014.[488] In June 2015, Ronaldo announced that he would be releasing his own fragrance by the end of the year, in a partnership with Eden Parfums.[489]

Career statistics

Club

As of 20 April 2016
Club statistics
Club Season League Cup[a] League Cup Europe Other[b] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting CP 2002–03[490] Primeira Liga 25 3 3 2 3[c] 0 0 0 31 5
Manchester United[491] 2003–04 Premier League 29 4 5 2 1 0 5[d] 0 0 0 40 6
2004–05 33 5 7 4 2 0 8[d] 0 0 0 50 9
2005–06 33 9 2 0 4 2 8[d] 1 47 12
2006–07 34 17 7 3 1 0 11[d] 3 53 23
2007–08 34 31 3 3 0 0 11[d] 8 1[e] 0 49 42
2008–09 33 18 2 1 4 2 12[d] 4 2[f] 1 53 26
Total 196 84 26 13 12 4 55 16 3 1 292 118
Real Madrid 2009–10[169] La Liga 29 26 0 0 6[d] 7 35 33
2010–11[177] 34 40[g] 8 7 12[d] 6 54 53
2011–12[493] 38 46 5 3 10[d] 10 2[h] 1 55 60
2012–13[494] 34 34 7 7 12[d] 12 2[h] 2 55 55
2013–14[495] 30 31 6 3 11[d] 17 47 51
2014–15[496] 35 48 2 1 12[d] 10 5[i] 2 54 61
2015–16[497] 34 31 0 0 10[d] 16 44 47
Total 234 256 28 21 73 78 9 5 344 360
Career total 455 343 57 36 12 4 131 94 12 6 667 483
  1. Jump up^ Includes the Taça de Portugal, FA Cup and Copa del Rey
  2. Jump up^ Includes the FA Community Shield, UEFA Super Cup, FIFA Club World Cup and Supercopa de España
  3. Jump up^ one appearance in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Cup
  4. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j k l m All appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  5. Jump up^ Appearance in FA Community Shield
  6. Jump up^ All appearances in FIFA Club World Cup
  7. Jump up^ Does not include one goal scored on 18 September 2010 against Real Sociedad. Marca, which awards the Pichichi Trophy, attribute it to Ronaldo, while La Liga and UEFA attribute it toPepe.[492]
  8. ^ Jump up to:a b All appearances in Supercopa de España
  9. Jump up^ one appearance and two goals in UEFA Super Cup, two appearances in Supercopa de España, two appearances in FIFA Club World Cup

International

Ronaldo (left) playing againstArgentina in Geneva, Switzerland on 9 February 2011

As of 29 March 2016.[3][498][499]
National team Year Apps Goals
Portugal 2003 2 0
2004 16 7
2005 11 2
2006 14 6
2007 10 5
2008 8 1
2009 7 1
2010 11 3
2011 8 7
2012 13 5
2013 9 10
2014 9 5
2015 5 3
2016 2 1
Total 125 56

Honours

Club

Manchester United[500]
Real Madrid[500]

Individual

Ronaldo presenting his second FIFA Ballon d’Or to fans at the Santiago Bernabéu in January 2015

Orders

Records

(As of 16 April 2016)[517]

World

Europe

  • Most goals scored in European competitions (club football): 96 goals[524][525][526]
  • Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League: 94 goals[527]
  • Most goals scored in a UEFA Champions League/European Cup season: 17 goals in 2013–14[528]
  • Most goals scored in the UEFA Champions League group stage: 11 goals in 2015–16[294][295]
  • Most goals scored in UEFA Champions League knockout phase: 42 goals
  • Most UEFA Champions League goals scored in a calendar year: 15 goals in 2013[529]
  • Only player to score 15 or more UEFA Champions League goals in two different seasons: in 2013–2014 and 2015–2016[530]
  • The first player in the history of UEFA Champions League to score three hat-tricks in a single season: in 2015–2016[530]
  • Only footballer to have won the European Golden Shoe in two different leagues: English Premier League (2007–08) and Spanish La Liga (2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15)[531]
  • Most goals scored in the UEFA European Championship, including qualifying: 26 goals, for Portugal[366]
  • First footballer to ever score 10 goals in four consecutive UEFA Champions League seasons: 2011–12 to 2014–15[532]
  • Only footballer to score for two different winning teams in the European Cup: Manchester United (2007–08) and Real Madrid (2013–14)[533]
  • Most away goals scored in Champions League history: 42 goals[534]
  • Most consecutive UEFA Champions League away games scored in: 12
  • Most wins in the UEFA Champions League Knockout phase: 29 wins
  • Most braces scored in the UEFA Champions League: 20
  • Most European Golden Shoe awards: 4[531]
  • Most UEFA Team of the Year appearances: 9 times[535]
  • Most consecutive appearances in the UEFA Team of the Year: 8 (2007–2014)[536]
  • Only player to be among the finalists for all the editions of the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award: 2010–11 to 2014–15[537]
  • Fastest player to score 350 goals for one club (335 games)[538]

Spain

  • Most hat-tricks in La Liga history: 30[539]
  • Fastest La Liga player to score 150 league goals (140 games)[517][540]
  • Fastest La Liga player to score 200 league goals (178 games)[517][13]
  • Fastest player to reach 300 official club goals[517]
  • Most consecutive Clásicos matches scored in: 6 matches[541]
  • Best scoring start in a Spanish league season: 15 goals in eight rounds[265]
  • Fastest footballer to score 20 league goals: 12 games (missed one game due to injury)[542]
  • Only player to reach 30 goals in six consecutive La Liga seasons[543]
  • Most teams scored against in a season (2012/13): 19 (shared with Ronaldo and Lionel Messi)[544]
  • Most La Liga hat-tricks in a season: 8 hat-tricks (shared with Lionel Messi)[545]
  • Most hat-tricks scored in all competitions: 36[517][546]

Sporting CP

  • The first player in the club’s history to feature in the U16, U17, U18, B team and first team all in one season.[547]

Real Madrid

  • Real Madrid all-time top goalscorer: 360 goals[517][548]
  • Top goalscorer in La Liga: 256 goals[517][549]
  • Fastest player to reach 50 league goals[550]
  • Fastest player to reach 100 league goals[551]
  • Fastest player to reach 200 official goals[552]
  • Fastest player to reach 250 official goals[517]
  • Most goals scored in seven consecutive league matches: 15 goals[553]
  • First player to score in eight consecutive matchdays[554]
  • Most hat-tricks in Real Madrid’s history: 37[517][546]
  • Real Madrid Record Goalscorer in UEFA Champions League: 78 goals[517]
  • Real Madrid Record Goalscorer in European Competitions: 80 goals*

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Notes
  1. Jump up^ Real Madrid had previously recognized Ronaldo as their all-time top scorer after he scored a brace against Malmö on 30 September 2015. The club’s official record book attributes to Ronaldo a 74th-minute goal in a 2–1 win over Real Sociedad on 18 September 2010, despite his free-kick having been deflected by Pepe.[290][291]
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