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To: JakeStraw who wrote (25653)	3/21/2001 12:06:38 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 49844

Wednesday March 21 11:33 AM ET It's a Beautiful Stage for U2 dailynews.yahoo.com MIAMI (Reuters) - Irish rock group U2 will kick off its first U.S. tour in four years in Florida on Saturday on a huge, elaborate stage being built in Miami. The band, which has a reputation for extravagant shows, rented the Miami Arena at a cost of $3,500 a day so its crew could build the stage for its Elevation Tour 2001, The Miami Herald reported on Wednesday. While design details were being kept under wraps, Arena general manager Robert Franklin said the stage was ``gigantic, almost in the shape of a diamond.'' ``It's a very impressive set, that's for sure,'' he told the Herald. It will feature banks of huge television screens and an area within the stage where fans can be amid the band. The band will rehearse there in the next few days. Saturday's sold-out show at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise will launch a tour that will take the band through 80 dates in North America and Europe. It will be U2's first tour in the United States since 1997's Pop Mart Tour. The popularity of the band which started out playing pubs in Dublin 25 years ago seems undiminished. In February it picked up three Grammys (news - web sites) at the music awards show in Los Angeles, including record and song of the year for ``Beautiful Day.'' Its album ``All That You Can't Leave Behind,'' released in October 2000, was hailed by critics as a triumphant return to form. All told the band -- singer Bono (Paul Hewson), guitarist the Edge (Dave Evans), bass player Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen -- has sold 100 million records world wide.