On January 19, 2016, Williams announced that the band was in the process of writing their fifth album.
The band released the single “Red Rosary” in 2016 and offered it as a free download from their website. This song was also included in the 2018 release, Living in Reverse .
After the success of “The Right Man”, Units signed with Epic / CBS Records and produced a music video for “A Girl Like You” that went into medium rotation on early MTV . They released an EP titled New Way to Move on Epic Records, but typical of a hard-luck…
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The album was promoted with a European tour from March through May 2016.
On December 14, 2015, bassist Jeremy Davis fully left the band, marking his third and final departure from the group.
Following Bono’s recuperation, U2 embarked on the Innocence + Experience Tour in May 2015, visiting arenas in North America and Europe from May to December. The group structured their concerts around a loose autobiographical narrative of “innocence” passing into “experience”, with a fixed set of songs for the first half…
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In November 2015, Peter Hook sued Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert.
“Police Encounters”, which was released on 23 October.
After the release of the film on 12 September 2015, former bassist Bryn Merrick, who had played on Phantasmagoria (1985) and Anything (1986), died of throat cancer.
On 11 September 2015, the album Paper Gods was released. The single “Pressure Off” was also released the same week, first via Microsoft ‘s Xbox Music . The song subsequently appeared on Google Play Music . The album debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the band’s highest debut…
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