U2 in Vegas: 5 stars

Yesterday U2 had the premiere of the long announced and awaited new live show at Las Vegas Sphere.

The Guardian writes: ’U2 have never been a band noted for their love of shy understatement, but even by their standards, their arrival in Las Vegas represents a hitherto-unimagined degree of grandiosity’ and grants the concert a five stars review.

”“Elvis has definitely not left this building,”

Bono at the Spehere premiere

With an overall an overwhelming reception with outstanding reviews in most media, a new success for the the greatest rock band on Earth. This time for the first time without one if the original band members, Larry Mullen Jr – who due to health reasons is temporarily replaced by Bram van den Berg.

Paul McCartney was among the celebrities who attended Friday, along with Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Katy Perry, Flavor Flav and assorted music-industry executives, whom Bono thanked by name at the end of the show — one reminder that Sphere is as much a part of this gig as U2.

As the band played “All I Want Is You,” which Bono dedicated to Mullen, and “Love Rescue Me,” which he dedicated to the late Jimmy Buffett, Sphere’s screens eased up on the steroidal laser-light-show psychedelia, as though U2’s members wanted to remind us that they’re just, y’know, regular guys.

Sources:MikeWood/AlexisPetridis