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U2 played for nearly two hours on Monday night in San Diego, beginning their long-awaited 2005 Vertigo tour. The band took their fans on a trip through their entire catalog, kicking off the set with "City Of Blinding Lights" from their latest, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. U2 revealed some of the tricks up their sleeve at a "dress rehearsal" performance in Los Angeles over the weekend, bringing back "The Electric Co." and "An Cat Dubh"/"Into The Heart" from their very first album, Boy. The latter pair of songs had not been performed live in over 20 years. Classics such as "Bullet The Blue Sky" and "Elevation" were mixed with new favorites "Love And Peace Or Else" and "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own."U2's encore contained even more crowd pleasers, such as "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" and "One." The evening ended with an acoustic take on How To Dismantle...'s closer "Yahweh" and the song that finshed nearly every U2 concert throughout the 1980s, the sing-along hymn "40."
Both the spring and fall legs of U2's North American tour are completely sold out.
