U2 Fan Club

It seems that activism and the band U2 simply go hand in hand. The band’s active participation in a number of social causes has earned them with an even bigger fan base.
The band has been active when it comes to social causes from the early 80s and each and every member of U2 has had a tendency to collaborate with several other musicians and artists. The U2 members have also come together with several celebrities as well as with politicians in order to address the issues that concern major social issues like poverty, disease as well as social injustice. The year 1984 saw Bono as well as the band’s bassist Adam Clayton participate in the now famous Band Aid Concert so as to raise money for the victims of the Ethiopian famine in the same year. This particular initiative has been able to produce the very famous charity single called “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” This single would later go on to become the first among a series of multiple collaborations that happened between U2 and Bob Geldof. In the month of July 1985, the band went on to play a concert called Live Aid. Live Aid was simply a follow-up to U2’s Band Aid’s efforts.U2 frontman Bono along with wife Ali later were invited by World Vision. Soon the couple visited Ethiopia where they witnessed the disasters of famine on a first hand basis.
In 1986 U2 participated in the concert that was entitled “A Conspiracy of Hope” tour so as to support the Amnesty International and in Self Aid for the Irish unemployment and later that year, Bono and his wife Ali Hewson visited places like Nicaragua and El Salvador where they were invited by the Sanctuary movement and saw the disastrous effects of the El Salvador Civil War. Such 1986 events have greatly influenced U2’s album The Joshua Tree.

Around 6 years later in the year 1992, U2 also took part in the “Stop Sellafield” concert with Greenpeace while they were touring for the Zoo TV. There were many events in Sarajevo when the Bosnian war was happening and this incident has inspired the song “Miss Sarajevo”. This was later premiered at a September 1995 Pavarotti and Friends show. The band much later played in Sarajevo as a part of promise made in 1993 and the band played at the year 1997’s PopMart Tour. In the year 1998, the band performed in the Belfast days before the vote on the Good Friday Agreement took place.

In 2001, the band also made a dedication of the “Walk On” to the famous pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and around more than a couple of years in the late 2003, Bono along with fellow band mate the Edge took part in the South Africa HIV/AIDS awareness. The band as well as the manager Paul McGuinness were both awarded Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award as a part of gratitude for their work for human rights. They have received a lot of support for their social work.