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Starring: Bono,  The Edge,  Adam Clayton,  Larry Mullen Jr.,  Gavin Friday, 
Directed By: Hamish Hamilton,  Erica Forstadt, 
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Release Date: 2005-11-14
Studio: Interscope Records
Format: Closed-captioned,  Color,  Dolby,  DVD-Video,  Live,  NTSC, 

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Description
"U2 Vertigo//2005" is without doubt the hottest tour of the year!! Ticket demand has been phenomenal and by the end of 2005 U2 will have played to 3.25 million people! "Vertigo//2005, U2 Live From Chicago" the DVD captures this unique experience.

The DVD features 23 electric performances, with songs drawn from across the bands entire career - from first album fan favorites such as "Electric Co," through U2 classics such as "Pride...," "New Years Day" and "Where the Streets Have No Name" and right up to date with "Vertigo" the smash hit that launched this years #1 studio album "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb."

Directed by Hamish Hamilton

DVD TRACK LISTING
1. City of Blinding Lights
2. Vertigo
3. Elevation
4. Cry/Electric Co.
5. An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart
6. Beautiful Day
7. New Year’s Day
8. Miracle Drug
9. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
10. Love and Peace or Else
11. Sunday Bloody Sunday
12. Bullet The Blue Sky
13. Running To Standstill
14. Pride In The Name Of Love
15. Where The Streets Have No Name
16. One
17. Zoo Station
18. The Fly
19. Mysterious Ways
20. All Because Of You
21. Original Of The Species
22. Yahweh
23. 40

***This Limited Edition Double Disc Set comes in special packaging and includes a bonus second disc featuring a ‘behind-the-scenes’ documentary as well as other exclusive unseen performance elements.***

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When he isn't rubbing shoulders with the likes of Kofi Annan and George W. Bush, the activist Bono has a side project he likes to call "U2." U2: Vertigo - Live From Chicago captures the band on two nights during their tour to support How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Once known for taking the most technologically extravagant shows on the road, the boys from Dublin have settled into a comfortable role of rock elder statesmen, placing emphasis on the anthems and weepers of their considerable body of work rather than gigantic lemons that descend from the rafters. Always a band that reflects the zeitgeist, this concert film finds them at their earnest best, with comparatively stripped-down stage production and superbly recorded sound. To call U2's more rocking songs "anthems" borders on understatement, and it is their anthems that ring most exuberantly in Chicago's United Center. Bono understandably looks heavier and wearier than in days past, perhaps due to the weight of the world he has hoisted onto his shoulders. While the icon roams the circular stage around the Metallica-style "snakepit," The Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr., and bassist Adam Clayton pin the songs to the floorboards and take them to the heavens. How can these guys not play fantastically together? Standouts include hits both classic and newly minted, among them "Beautiful Day," "New Year's Day," "Pride (In the Name of Love)," and "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Late in the concert Bono makes his appeal to the leaders of the world to end extreme poverty, invoking the imagination of a country that put a man on the moon. Ingeniously, he asks the crowd to take out their cell phones and text-message an account that operates as a petition to end world hunger. With the stadium aglow in LED screens, the band smoothly glides into "One." Elsewhere, Bono invokes religion, donning a headband decorated with Islamic, Jewish, and Christian symbols, assuming the appearance of a grizzled No Nukes protester circa 1975. (Perhaps this is a new persona akin to The Fly?) Kidding aside, these may be days in which we need the uplift and passion of U2 more than the 1990s, when they dressed up as the Village People and occasionally performed at K-Mart. Not suitable for those who don't wish to save the world. --Ryan Boudinot

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Customer Reviews

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I recieved the dvd vertigo by U2...... the outside case is broken, and was broken when I received it.... I would like a NEW one. I wanted to keep this as a keepsake and it sucks that it is broken, can you please mail me a new plastic cover?
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For a true U2 fan
It's not as flashy and exciting as ZooTV and Popmart were but it's still a good selection of their songs from the past and present. At times Bono seems more concerned about posing for pictures and less concerned with how the audience is reacting but I'm not sure anyone in the audience noticed that. I know what it is. On ZooTV and Popmart the band seemed interested in giving a total experience of sight and sound. The Elevation video seemed to show the band aging well as rock icons. This video seemed to be the band embracing the idea that they are rock legends still touring. Anyway, if you are a true U2 fan and want to keep their concert video collection up to date then get this. Otherwise, this is probably not the video to get you started.

Bono A Joke
U2:Vertigo 05-Live From Chicago.Bono's performance all through the
concert is lame.He looks and acts like he doesn't want to perform
anymore.During singing,"Love And Peace Or Else",wearing a head band with
religious symbols and pounding away at a drum with drumsticks:corny.
During singing,"Zoo Station",and "The Fly",Bono wearing a military hat
and uniform looks ridiculous. Bono and Larry should have worn their hair
styled as from The Elevation Tour. Bono's hair is terible,Larry should
have a hair cut, Adam with his gray hair should have dyed his hair back
to its natural color.However,the stage,lighting,sound,guitars,Larry playing drums,Bono and The Edge singing is awesome!!.U2:Elevation-Live
From Boston and U2:Go Home-Live From Slane Castle Rocks!!

U2 Concert Is Fantastic
I have heard for years that U-2 is fantastic live. I finally found out for myself after going to a 3-D IMAX theater to see U2-3D. I was absolutely blown away. I never thought that I would ever see a lead guitarist that is in the caliber of Pete Townsend from The Who, but The Edge gives him a run for his money.
This DVD is from the same tour that U2-3D was taken (The Vertigo tour). It is a great DVD. The only reason that I did not give it 5 stars is that it did not have my favorite U2 song, which is With Or Without You (this song WAS in the 3D feature). Great band, strong vocals, and NO interruptions with chatter and interviews. When I watch a concert film, I want to pretend that I am really there. I like it to "build up" like a real concert, without interview break-aways, and this video (just as in the 3D film) does just that. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS VIDEO!

Must Own for U2 fan - But not their Best effort or Concert DVD.
Vertigo was a brilliant CD & the accompanying tour was top notch.
But having followed the band since Joshua Tree, I can echo the prevailing sentiment that this DVD didn't capture the Band's on 1 of its better night.

Still U2 fans will add this to their collection & upconvert it on HD or SD & enjoy nice sound.

But if you can catch U23D in 3D sight & sound from their Vertigo Latin America leg currently in theatres - it blows all of their previous efforts out of the water & demonstrates why this is still the world's greatest rock band. That concert will show that their music has crossed all generations.

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