Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago (2005)

Original title

U2: Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago

Directed by

Hamish Hamilton, Erica Forstadt

Genre

rock music

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 19m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This concert film captures U2 performing live in Chicago during their 2005 Vertigo Tour. It shows the band playing their hits to a large stadium audience.

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What happens

Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago (sometimes titled Vertigo '05: Live from Chicago) is a concert film by Irish rock band U2. It was filmed from 9–10 May 2005 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, during the band's Vertigo Tour. The film was released on DVD later that year on 14 November through Island Records in most parts of the world, and on 15 November through Interscope Records in the United States. The DVD was released as a one-disc standard edition and a deluxe edition with a second disc featuring bonus material and a documentary. It was the first of three concert films from the tour. The video was a worldwide success, topping the music DVD charts in 11 countries. It has been certified diamond in Brazil and France; sextuple-platinum in Australia; triple-platinum in New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain; and double-platinum in Mexico and the United Kingdom. As of January 2007, it was the band's best-selling DVD, according to Nielsen SoundScan, selling over 285,000 copies in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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