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U2 TOP OF THE FLOPS
U2 have been named and shamed as the creators of the most disastrous stage shows of all time. The Irish rockers came top of a survey by US magazine Blender for the set on their 1997 Popmart world tour. The concert was plagued with a string of errors including smoking the audience out with special effects and getting trapped in a giant lemon that they were using as a stage prop. Blender magazine writes, "No musician is immune to the catastrophe of the onstage meltdown... absurd sets, drunken lead singers and horribly exposed miming." Other artists listed in the top ten were JEFFERSON STARSHIP and THE EVERLY BROTHERS.
22 August 2006 07:36
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Reason 
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posted on 22/08/2006 16:10
The Original article where Contactmusic got this news from was a list of Worst
Onstage Meltdowns from here
www.blender.com
The Article just mentions the failure of the 40-foot-high lemon. On the opening
night of the tour, in Las Vegas on April 25, 1997, it did not open.
So this Article says nothing about POP being the worst Tour. Contact Music took
that article entirely out of context.
This Article is a joke.
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Smokey 
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posted on 22/08/2006 13:50
So some jealous people like to say. U2 fans loved that show. U2 is an
evolving entity all unto itself, always evolving and always putting on superb
sell-out shows, each show different from their last show. They have more
respect for their fans than to put on the same shows and sing the same songs
for 25 to 30 years. So it follows that an occasional style will not suit
everybody in the world. So they had one tour out of a dozen that somebody
didn't like -- so what????
