Letterman: Top Ten Things U2 Has Learned

Every night this week, U2 is performing on The Late Show with David Letterman. This coincides with the release of U2's new album, No Line on the Horizon.

On Wednesday, the band members delivered the Top Ten List.



TOP TEN THINGS U2 HAS LEARNED OVER THE YEARS

BONO: 10. A lot of people think I'm the guy who sang with Cher

EDGE: 9. I suck at "Guitar Hero"

ADAM: 8. Dumb people send us videos all the time. They think we're YouTube

LARRY: 7. Even my family asks, "Are you Adam or Larry?"

BONO: 6. There's always quite a stir at Applebee's when they call, "U2 -- Party of Four"

EDGE: 5. Cool name: The Edge, Uncool name: The Itch (Before saying "The Itch," Edge went off script and said, "Sting.")
ADAM: 4. Melted cheese tastes good on practically everything

LARRY: 3. Sometimes when we shout, "Are you ready to rock?!" I don't care if you're ready to rock

ALL (in unison): 2. It's never too soon to start working on a phony Irish accent

BONO: 1. Up close, you can totally see Letterman's hairpiece

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Manhattan street has a name: U2 Way

This street does have a name — U2 Way.

To celebrate U2's weeklong gig on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman," a block-long stretch of West 53rd Street was temporarily renamed after the veteran Irish rockers on Tuesday.

"Somewhere south of Duke Ellington Way and north of Joey Ramone Place we find ourselves," said lead singer Bono. "And we're the band where the streets have no name."

The four band members joined Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in unveiling the "U2 Way" street sign on Broadway across West 53rd Street from the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Letterman's show is taped.

Scores of fans cheered from behind police barricades as Bloomberg presented each U2 member with his own copy of the sign.

"Edge just said this is the first time he's been seen with a street sign and not been arrested," quipped Bono, referring to guitarist The Edge.

U2 is on "Letterman" all week to promote their new album, "No Line on the Horizon."

"The boys are in town for a weeklong stint with the king of late night, David Letterman," Bloomberg said. "And it's a historic event for late-night television right here in the capital of late-night television."

Note to Bloomberg: Those "boys" are middle-aged men.