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21 Dublin rockers a wild success People IM ri SIil UGH POST-GAZKTTKi Wed April 10, 1985 Post-Gazette review fine "Surrender" and the beautiful "Pride (In the Name of Love)." "Gloria" and the African famine-inspired "Feed the World" were wildly received encores. Later, Bono slipped a verse of "Amazing Grace' into "Electric Co." and peppered other songs with bits of "Ruby Tuesday," "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Norwegian Wood." Who can fault a band with roots in the Stones and the Beatles? At last, a group you can sink your political teeth into! Their musical impact is obvious to the ear. Their philosophical achievement lies in the fact that they've brought back to rock, after a long exile, the subjects of war and peace, which have been in disrepute since metal and decibels captured rock and The Actor captured the White House. message to the President." Songs from U2's new album, "The Unforgettable Fire," were well received, especially when Bono invited two girls from the audience to join him on stage. (Well, one was invited and one broke through the security line.) At one point, someone threw a T-shirt onstage which contained a pro-IRA message.

"This is the kind of thing we don't need for my country or for Central America or anywhere," said Bono. "So you can take your T-shirt and shove it." With that, he hurled it back and charged into "Sunday Bloody Sunday," the group's masterful homage to the 13 Irish civilians slain by the British in 1972. It got a huge ovation. So did the The brothers three Actor Patrick Cassidy was joined by his brothers Shaun and Ryan Monday night at the Ambassador Theater in New York City after his opening-night performance in the new musical, "Leader of the Pack." Alas, The New York Times drama critic Frank Rich was less than kind in his review, which read, in part: "Although there are as yet no candidates in the competition for best musical of the Broadway season, the race for most calamitous musical has gained a strong new contender with 'Leader of the a purported tribute to golden rock-and-roll oldies at the Ambassador. While not I as pointless as 'The Three Musketeers' or as lengthy as 'Harrigan 'n Hart or as becalmed as this show does lead the pack in such key areas as incoherence (total), vulgarity (boundless) and decibel level (stratospheric, with piercing electronic feedback)." Wallenberg Walk Mayor Edward I.

Koch yesterday dedicated part of First Avenue I across from the United Nations in honor of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who has been credited with rescuing thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. "Raoul Wallenberg Walk" will serve as a reminder of a modern saint, Koch said. It will also be a reminder that "one person can count, one person's activities, actions, courage can make a difference," he said. He called upon Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "as a merciful measure, as a break With the past, to himself make an inquiry and if Raoul Wallenberg is alive, to free him." Singer 'belts' it out Country music singer Barbara Mandrell says wearing seat belts was the only reason she and her two children survived an automobile accident in the fall that killed another person. "I love the people in this country, and I just want to beg them to have this safety by wearing a safety seat belt," she said yesterday on ABC's "Good Morning America." The entertainer was seriously in- By Barry Paris Post-Gazette Staff Writer If Rolling Stone and 17,000 Civic Arena fans are right, the new fab four is U2, those Irish rockers who were designated "the band of the '80s" last month.

We all know enough to mistrust such pronouncements (we're only halfway through the decade, after all), but there was no mistaking the performance: a spectacular one by the Dublin quartet that is restoring melody, harmony and lyrics to rock. Last night's concert was yet another smash success for U2, whose phenomenal popularity can be charted by its three local appearances: the Decade in 1981 (75 people max), Fulton Theater in 1983 and now the full-house Arena. The audience consisted of 10,000 modified-highbrow punks, with hair in bondage; 4,000 prepubescents; maybe 2,000 liberal Yuppies; and 1,000 stodgy old orthodox rock buffs like me who tended to admit no more superstars after Bruce Springsteen. But such is the talent and the power of U2 that it appeals directly and viscerally to all of the above, winning converts and regenerating the already committed. Dynamo vocalist Paul "Bono" Hewson is the man most of the fans came to see, and for good reason.

He has a tremendous vocal range, and as a performer, he captivated the cavernous Arena crowd like no one I've seen there since David Bowie. Bono does his share of prancing in high-heeled boots, but the most remarkable thing is that he and U2 do not rely on sets, props, costumes, makeup or any of the cheap gimmicks regarded as essential by the industry these days. No buzz-saw codpieces or hunks of raw meat or sexist sex raps for these guys. Bono, guitarist Dave "The Edge" Evans, bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen Jr. rely, instead, on an incredibly clean, driving sound in which the intelligence of the words share equal billing with the euphoric music itself.

Highlights last night included such major U2 hits as the wonderful, extended "I Will Follow," and "Seconds," the haunting A-bomb disaster song which, Bono said, was "a BEARS Associated Press Patrick Cassidy, center, with brothers Shaun, left, and Ryan, backstage after Broadway opening night. old seafaring tradition. "Greece has always lived by the sea and from the sea. This exhibit will make Piraeus rate with Europe's richest cultural centers," she said. Mercouri, who is best known for her portrayal of a Piraeus waterfront prostitute in the film "Never on Sunday," represents a Piraeus district in Parliament.

The exhibit, to open June 21 at Piraeus' central passenger terminal, will include more than 1,600 items dating from the Stone Age to modem times. Stats from STATS Computers have hit the world of physical fitness. Kevin Kane, general manager of the City Club, Downtown, says the club's recent addition of STATS (Statistical Testing and Tracking System) is motivating more members to get into shape. Kane said the computer not only evaluates a member's current fitness level, but prescribes an exercise program and monitors his progress. Said the computer functions as an exercise-manager and motivator." STATS is but one part of the club's recent upgrading program that Kane said will also include a 75-foot-by-25-foot swimming pool to open later this month.

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Mandrell, 36, who is expecting her third child, spent 19 days in the hospital with a broken leg, two broken bones in her ankle, a badly injured knee and a severe concussion. For job 4 Welty' done Three thousand signatures have been collected on a petition to name the new downtown library building in Jackson, after Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty. Pat Ross, president of the 500-member Jackson Friends of the Library, said the signatures were collected during the past three weeks. Ross said in a recent letter to Welty, a lifelong Jackson resident and dedicated library supporter, "Naming the library for you is certainly appropriate and altogether fitting, for you have brought pleasure to our lives." Plaudits for Piraeus Actress Melina Mercouri, culture minister of Greece, yesterday announced plans for a $700,000 permanent exhibit in Athens' port city of Piraeus illustrating Greece's age- a y' lg7 'jfi 'ttHMS Tidbit Presbyterian-University Hospital of Pittsburgh cardiac support group will offer a series of cooking classes to assist and improve the diet of heart disease patients at 7:30 p.m. the first four Wednesdays in May at the hospital.

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