{"id":37800,"date":"2023-10-09T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T00:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=37800"},"modified":"2025-06-01T22:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T03:11:43","slug":"bono-u2-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2023\/10\/09\/bono-u2-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono, U2 & A Heart Valve Disease Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may know… Bono, the lead singer of U2<\/a>, recently shared that he had heart valve and aortic aneurysm surgery performed by Dr. David Adams<\/a> at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.\u00a0 You may also know that I am a huuuuuuuuuge U2 fan.<\/p>\n

So, when U2 announced “Achtung Baby”, their 40-show residency at the new MGM Sphere in Las Vegas, I needed to go.<\/p>\n

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\"BonoU2 Performing at MGM Sphere (Las Vegas)<\/p>\n

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This past Saturday night, I was lucky to see U2 perform “Achtung Baby” which is a live reboot\u00a0of their gear-shifting, transformative and fantastic 1991 album which includes One, Mysterious Ways, Even Better Than The Real Thing, The Fly, Ultra Violet, Zoo Station, and So Cruel.<\/p>\n

The concert also featured many generational, iconic and fan-favorite tracks spanning U2’s brilliant career that stretches over four decades. Yep, the set list included With or Without You, Beautiful Day, Vertigo, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Angel of Harlem, Pride, and even… MLK.<\/p>\n

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A Disneyland Experience for U2 Fans?<\/h2>\n

Without being a spoiler, I will simply say the show was extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Wait, let me rephrase that.<\/p>\n

The “experience” was extraordinary.<\/p>\n

This was no ordinary show. This was magic.<\/p>\n

“It’s like we’re at Disneyland for U2 fans,” said Robyn, my wife.<\/p>\n

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\"AdamRobyn & Me at U2’s Achtung Baby (MGM Sphere)<\/p>\n

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The band was tight.<\/p>\n

Bono never sounded better. The Edge shredded. Adam dropped thick and therapeutic bass lines. And, Bram Van Den Berg did a great job filling-in on drums for the recovering Larry Mullen, Jr. <\/a><\/p>\n

The sound and the special effects within the new Sphere, which cost $2.3 billion to construct, forced me to reconsider the future of live music — and, in a good way.<\/p>\n

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\"Sphere<\/p>\n

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I’ve read that the curved Sphere screen has over 260 million pixels and more than 150,000 speakers.<\/p>\n

I literally gasped and awed throughout the 2-hour show as my eyes and my ears processed the elegant, the digital and the mind-blowing integration of light, color, more light, more color and, most importantly, U2’s music.<\/p>\n

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