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The biggest band in the world … U2, (L-R) The Edge, Adam Clayton, Bono and Larry Mullen Jr on stage during the Bambi Awards in Berlin last November. Picture: Matthias Nareyek/Getty Images
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NEW Yorkers have been running into Bono and his band, U2, all over town the past few days.
The group has been taping music and comedy bits to include in their Friday appearance on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they’ll be the only guests.
Lucky subway riders at Grand Central Terminal found the band on a train platform performing their hit Angel of Harlem.
The social media response was excited — although some wags couldn’t resist noting that the band were again forcing people to listen to their music, after the fuss that greeted the automatic iTunes download of their album Songs of Innoncence last year.
@jimmyfallon and @U2 dressed as street musicians at a subway station at 10p on a Monday! #gottaloveNYC pic.twitter.com/DhiKtJXKRS
— Shane Ankeney (@ShaneAnkeney) May 5, 2015
Because forcing their album on us wasn’t enough, U2 are now making people on the NYC subway to listen to them play. http://t.co/pF1Wzf1xnV
— Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) May 5, 2015
Elsewhere, Bono and Fallon were seen riding bikes in preparation for a comedy bit spoofing Bono’s all-too-real bicycle crash in New York’s Central Park a few months ago, which resulted in injuries that forced the band to cancel its scheduled weeklong Tonight engagement.
The band’s world tour starts in Vancouver on May 14.
