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U2 will perform a
five-night gig on the Late Show with David Letterman.,
CBS said. (
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It's the first time a musical act has been booked for an entire week on the show.
U2 starts the weeklong gig Monday, March 2, and ends it the following Friday. During the week - on March 3 - the band and its label, Interscope Records, will release the Album "
No Line on the Horizon".
The band kicked off the Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles with a performance of their single
Get on Your Boots and sang for hundreds of thousands of people at pre-inauguration concert for President
Barack Obama in Washington DC in January.
Lead by the sunglass-wearing singer Bono, U2 was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
The band recorded its latest Album in Morocco, Dublin, New York and London.
Their last Album, the 2004 "
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb", sold more than 9 million copies worldwide.