Bono: U2 scrapped several albums in last five years for not being good enough

U2 frontman Bono says the band has recorded “several” albums in the past five years - but discarded them because they weren’t good enough. He told Q magazine: “Rumour has it we haven’t made a U2 album in the last five years. “We have. We just didn’t release them because we were waiting for something that would be as good as the best we’ve ever done.”

The charts are broken. They do not measure what people are listening to and they do not measure people’s passion in music.

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He said the band had spent two years working on their new album Songs Of Innocence, which was given away free to iTunes customers last month in conjunction with the new iPhone launch. He told the magazine he was still “against free music”, emphasising that the release was part of a deal with Apple. “We’re not giving it away. Apple are giving it away. This is really important.”

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