To promote the March 3 release of their new CD, No Line on the Horizon, U2 will perform five nights straight on The Late Show with David Letterman starting Monday, March 2. No band has ever had a week-long residency on the program. U2 has yet to provide details about what they plan to perform, but it's a safe assumption that they'll mix in Horizon material with their old standards.

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Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...