U2 to make history with songwriting honour in UK

U2 inducted into the Ivors Academy Fellowship as first-ever Irish songwriters

The Ivors Academy Fellowship has previously gone to Kate Bush, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen and a range of international musicians.

U2 become first Irish songwriters to be honored with fellowship from The Ivors Academy

ABC/Randy Holmes U2 have been chosen as the next Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U.K. organization that presents The Ivor Novello Awards to celebrate excellence in British and Irish songwriting. The band — Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. — are the first-ever Irish songwriters to earn a fellowship, the highest honor handed out by the Ivors. “We were a band before we could play, let alone write songs. … In fact it was ou…

U2 to make history with songwriting honour in UK

U2 will make history as the first Irish songwriters to be awarded an Ivors Academy Fellowship in the UK, the highest honour the songwriting organisation bestows.

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A gap of nearly four and a half years between studio albums only sharpened the appetite of U2’s ravenous fans all over the world in 2009. When the band returned with No Line On The Horizon, the reaction prompted five million sales in as many months and led to the band breaking the record for the highest-grossing tour in music history. The masters of creative renewal had done it again. During 2005, the year after How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, …

U2 become first Irish songwriters to be honored with fellowship from The Ivors Academy – 106.5 The Arch

U2 have been chosen as the next Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U.K. organization that presents The Ivor Novello Awards to celebrate excellence in British and Irish songwriting.The band — Bono,… Source

U2 become first Irish songwriters to be honored with fellowship from The Ivors Academy – KSHE 95

U2 have been chosen as the next Academy Fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U.K. organization that presents The Ivor Novello Awards to celebrate excellence in British and Irish songwriting.The band — Bono,… Source