THIS DAY  U2'S HISTORY:  Edge´s eyepatch / "One" to governor Mechun / U2's first show in NY since the Sept. 11 attacks is filled with tributes to the city / 81st 'VERTIGO' show: 'Humpty Dumpty' / Humanitarian Award to Music Rising / Chris Milk's interview about The Saints Are Coming!

"October" tour - october 24, 1981 - U2 perform in Deinze, Belgium at the Brielpoort. Edge wears eyepatch during this show.

"ZOOTV - Outside Broadcast" tour - october 24, 1992 - U2 perform in Tempe, Arizona at Sun Devil Stadium. Bono dedicates "One" to former Governor Ed Mechum, who had refused to recognize Martin Luther King day as a holiday in Arizona in 1987. Bono also performs a full acoustic version of "Suspicious Minds", the only time it will performed during the 1992-93 tour. The typical White House call takes a turn for the bizarre as the operator misunderstands Bono and asks him if his name is "Miracle Man". "No," Bono replies, "We need miracles but I just have mirror balls." The operator quickly hangs up. Support is B.P. Fallon, "The Sugarcubes", and "Public Enemy".

"Elevation" tour - october 24, 2001 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden - At the start of the concert, The Edge, the band's guitarist, stepped onstage wearing a New York Yankees T-shirt, and the crowd's already considerable excitement ascended from there. "Sunday Bloody Sunday" - You could recognize the song by any one its musical elements played alone -- The Edge's guitar, Adam Clayton's bass or Larry Mullen's propulsive drumming -- but the chorus transforms it into an anthem: "How long, how long must we sing this song?" Bono asks. His plaint had special meaning on Wednesday, the day after the Irish Republican Army had announced it would begin to dismantle its cache of weapons. "Today is a great day for us because the IRA has put its arms to bed," Bono said. "There is no going back. We want to thank these men for making this choice." U2's first show in NY since the Sept. 11 attacks is filled with tributes to the city. Bono brings fans on stage three different times - during 'Stuck' a male fan helps sing the song; a female fan plays and sings during 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' (full band); and a girl gets on stage during 'New York' and is carried by Bono. During 'One', video screens show the names of hijack victims, and a list of NYPD and FDNY personnel who died in the rescue is added. Bono paused to praise the United States: "Poles, Jews, blacks, weirdos, rock stars, peanut sellers. Nobody looks at you funny," he said. Names of those killed on Sept. 11 began to roll up the screen behind him: Darlene Flagg . . . Shuyin Yang . . . Zoe Falkenberg and hundreds of others. Bono began to sing -- "One love, one life, when it's one need in the night" -- and we nodded and sang along. An MLK video shows during 'Pride,' a la Zoo TV. U2 played also: What´s Going On, Angel Of Harlem (full band-electric).

81st 'VERTIGO' show - October 24, 2005 / Detroit, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills. Institute. 'Humpty Dumpty.'City of Blinding Lights, Vertigo, Elevation, I Will Follow, The Electric Co., I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Beautiful Day, Miracle Drug, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, Love and Peace or Else, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bullet the Blue Sky, Miss Sarajevo, Pride, Where the Streets Have No Name, One. Encore(s): Walk On (acoustic), Stuck In a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, With or Without You, All Because of You, Original of the Species, Yahweh, 40. Bono jokes about technical problems during Electric Co. by singing a bit of the nursery rhyme 'Humpty Dumpty.' Photos: U2gigs

Humanitarian Award to Music Rising - October 24, 2006 - It's announced, that, November 8-9 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City - BillBoard Touring Conference ... 3 Doors Down members Brad Arnold (lead vocals) and Matt Roberts (lead guitar) will take part in the keynote Q&A session "Rebirth of a Region: Concerts Return to the Gulf" at the Billboard Touring Conference, being held on November 8-9 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. Ray Waddell, Billboard's senior touring editor, will moderate this discussion on November 8. ... The awards are based on actual box office performance from December 1, 2005 to September 30, 2006. This year's Humanitarian Award will go to Music Rising; the musical instrument replacement fund founded by U2's The Edge, producer Bob Ezrin, and Gibson Guitar chairman Henry Juszkiewicz, with MusiCares and the Guitar Center Foundation. Music Rising has successfully put more than 2,000 instruments in the hands of musicians who lost their means of livelihood in the wake of Katrina. ... prweb

Chris Milk's interview about The Saints Are Coming - the video October 24, 2006 - MTV News Exclusive: Catch A Sneak Peek Of U2/ Green Day 'Saints' Video - Clip features Superdome performance, Abbey Road recording sessions - Last month, as Green Day and U2 took the stage at the Louisiana Superdome, they were not only being watched by millions in the city of New Orleans and around the world, but by director Chris Milk and his small army of cameras too. For weeks, Milk followed the two bands' every move from their initial meeting at London's Abbey Road Studio, where they recorded their version of "The Saints Are Coming," a single that benefits Music Rising (see "Green Day, U2 Take Historic Collabo One Step Further By Re-Enacting Beatles' Abbey Road LP Cover"). Milk then tracked their somber tour of New Orleans' still-ravaged Ninth Ward and continued to shoot them when they stepped onto the stage at the Superdome, where they blasted through a chill-inducing version of "Saints" - And now he's in the final stages of compiling all that footage into the master version of the "Saints" video, a task that is proving to be quite the undertaking. "We have footage from Abbey Road, when they recorded the song, plus news footage from when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and shots from the Superdome performance, where I had three cameras rolling," Milk told MTV News. "The whole thing is a tremendous effort. But it's absolutely a dream come true. I'm not sure how I can ever do another video again after this." The clip will combine the stark black-and-white footage Milk shot at Abbey Road with the Superdome performance and "conceptual images" �?heavily edited newsreel footage that Milk said would "make a commentary on the Katrina disaster ... from the standpoint of how things can and should be done in the future." "I don't want to give too much of it away, but there's definitely a message [in the video]," Milk added. "But it's also important to make sure that it complements the song, so it starts off somber and dark, and then you're transported to the Superdome performance, which is big and bright and powerful." According to a spokesperson for Interscope, U2's record label, the video for "The Saints Are Coming" could premiere in full on MTV as early as this week. Caroline Galloway, a spokesperson for Music Rising, told MTV News that there are no immediate plans to make the "Saints" clip available for download, though she said fans can still get the Green Day/ U2 version of the song �?along with footage shot in and around New Orleans �?on Rhapsody.com. She also added that the Superdome performance served as the official launch of phase two of Music Rising's mission, which will provide musical instruments to churches and schools throughout the Gulf Region. For more information, check out MusicRising.org. vh1