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Way to go, U2.

The band has announced that they will be providing about $7.2 million through 2015 to help fund music schools for Irish children.

When the band heard the news that the government was cutting spending on education to save $8.6 billion, they decided to make the large donation so that schools can get musical equipment and hire teachers to tutor children.

About 50% of

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This is a must-have book!

Oprah is releasing a coffee-table book chronicling the last twenty-five years of her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show.

The book, titled The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy by Deborah Davis, will be published on November 15 and will run about $50. Not bad for a collector's item filled with 150 color photographs that covers all 25 years of her show.

Winfrey was

We don't want to give away the surprise, but there's actually going to be a clone of both Bono and The Edge in EVERY set sold! LOLz.

Okay, so maybe there won't be any clones, but the upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of Achtung Baby will still be more-than-expansive!

Here's what U2 band manager Paul McGuinness had to say about the release in an interview from earlier this year:

U2 fans should def enjoy this…and we know there's A LOT of you out there!

Check out the new music video (above) for Rise Above Pt. 1 from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring show star Reeve Carney, as well as Bono & The Edge!

What do U think about this song? Does it get your spidey senses tingling???

In-cre-di-ble.

While performing at a U2 concert in Nashville, lead singer Bono saw a man in the audience with a sign that read, "Blind Guitar Player. Bring Me Up." So what did he do? Brought him on stage, of course.

Watch the amazing duet (above). And we dare you not to shed a tear when Bono gives the guy his guitar.

So touching!

Superstar bands Nirvana and U2 are both reissuing popular albums from the decade of flannel and good money.

In 1991, Nirvana came out with Nevermind, a record that Rolling Stone would later call the number one album of the decade and the seventeenth greatest of all time.

For their twentieth anniversary, the band plans to reissue Nevermind as a five disc deluxe edition. Due September 20, the reissue is sure to make grunge fans everywhere very happy. As for more anniversary surprises, drummer Dave Grohl says:

If that title doesn't really make sense to you, "The Claw" is what they called the alien-like 29,000-square-foot steel structure they used on their two year 360 tour! They have FOUR of them!

We think this is an amazing idea, for the very same reason as why they're selling them: to recycle!

Evans added that the U2 camp is "now in discussions to send them into different places around the world and have them installed as permanent venues. Some major events have shown interest in these, from four different continents — and we haven't even really put the word out yet."

What better use for incredible stages than to be used as

That would be SO cool!

Kings of Leon has shared that the band has been asked by Agent 007 himself, Daniel Craig, to write and perform a version of the quintessential Bond movie theme for the latest installment of the franchise.

In fact, he's asked THREE times!

Drummer Nathan Followill revealed Craig's persistence in a recent interview when the subject was brought up, saying:

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