Whatever happened to sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll? U2 are preparing for their next world tour by hitting the treadmills and healthy eating buffets.
Bono, 48, is so determined to keep trim, a private gym, footy pitch and healthy eating restaurant will be built at every venue.

And the band have already undertaken a grueling fitness regime so they can roll back the years for some of their most energetic performances ever.

A source revealed: “The lads used to demand piles of booze. But they’ve realised they have to eat the right foods and live a healthy lifestyle.

“This time around they have top health food chefs to prepare them low-carb snacks and high energy protein shakes.

“Bono and the lads know they can’t get away with eating and drinking like they used to. So they are pulling out all the stops to turn this into the healthiest tour ever staged.”

Before each gig — which includes three nights at Croke Park on July 24, 25 and 27 — the band will warm up by hitting the treadmill.

The insider added: “They will have gym equipment and a sports area complete with pool tables and even a mini football zone.

“It’s going to be like a big kid’s playground.

But when you consider they will be on the road for over a year it’s important they have some way of killing the time while they are away.”

The band was reportedly asked to shed the pounds before releasing their new album.
The source added: “The boys have been told to start exercising all the summer weight off.

They are a bit out of shape and they need to tone up and look the part again.”

2001 Rider Highlights

• Champagne
• Jack Daniels
• Curries
• Burgers
• Fries
• Cheese selection
• Guinness
• Expensive wine

2009 Tour Rider Highlights:

• Protein shakes
• White egg omelettes
• Low-carb chicken salads
• Energy drinks
• Stir-fried vegetables
• Treadmills

U2 2009

U2's headquarters lie inside a drab warehouse on a narrow street along Dublin's Hanover Quay basin, totally anonymous save for the thousands of U2-related graffiti scrawlings that span the block. Among the gems sprinkled amid the lyrics and doodles and marriage proposals: U2 ROCK, SEX PISTOLS ARE BETTER, THANKS FOR KEEPING ALIVE OUR DREAMS, BONO IS A FRAUD. And, of course, they're all true. Because U2 didn't become U2 without a fair helping of messy contradiction and unsolicited sloganeering.

The mere fact that an outfit of this stature has been able to operate freely in plain sight at this address for 15 years, without notable bother or visible security, probably says more about Dublin than it does about the import of the goings-on behind the double-wide steel doors. Because the band's import -- not as firebrands or as reliably bankable anthem-merchants, but as a cultural entity whose mere continued existence, much less relevance, belies history and common sense -- can, at this late date, scarcely be overstated.
Watch: On the set with U2

Upstairs in the modest reception area of "the studio," as its owners simply call the compound, there are no distinguishing markers hinting at who those owners might be -- no posters, photos, or platinum records. Just four plastic mailboxes mounted behind a desk, each labeled neatly and in need of emptying: BONO, EDGE, LARRY, ADAM.

For a group whose identity relies so heavily on an unlikely collusion of demagoguery and just-folksiness, and whose wealth and influence have long since passed wildest-dreams territory, the simple notion of why U2 must be an ongoing concern is one its members seem to have spent little energy deconstructing, or even questioning. To say it's for the love of the music, while no doubt true, just feels too pat. Of every rock band ever to exist -- music lovers all, presumably -- not one has approached U2's consistently upward 33-year career trajectory. (Yes, Mr. Martin, we see your hand -- we'll check back in 2031.) Credit the elusive alchemy of mass adoration, critical respect, and no one dying, all while the music industry collapses beneath its perch. The facts don't lie: 145 million albums and counting sold worldwide, and a reported 12-year, $100 million touring and merchandising deal with Live Nation. What U2 have done, and what they continue to do at a surprisingly hungry pace, has left the realm of statistical anomaly and entered that of minor miracle.

"Fear of being crap is a great motivator," says Bono, 48, holding court, as each member of U2 will, in the downstairs lounge, an unassuming room with mismatched sofas and a biography of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott on the coffee table. Glass doors open up on to the harbor, where an ancient, rusty tugboat sits anchored, scenery as cautionary metaphor. The easiest way to avoid being crap should be to not even tempt it, to settle into luxurious geezerdom, maybe reunite every decade or so for a tossed-off record and a behemoth tour to keep the tax-shelter estates in foie gras. "To miss realizing the potential of what a band like U2 can achieve in various different spheres, to me," the singer says, "is betrayal."

Just One.Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One

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You might say The Edge is having boundary issues.

The U2 guitarist's plans to build five mountaintop mansions in Malibu with fantastic oceanside views is facing fierce opposition from some famous NIMBYs concerned the homes will be an environmental catastrophe.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the proposed project would be built above homes belonging to the likes of Dick Van Dyke, Kelsey Grammer and James Cameron and would require some extensive and tricky engineering, including extension of a road down a rugged elevation, grading 70,000 cubic yards of hillside and installing water lines.

"The downside of this is a permanently scarred mountainside for the benefit of a very few that for many years all will view," Jefferson Wagner, a Malibu councilman, told the newspaper. "For somebody so revered even to be orchestrating this type of development in such a sensitive area is hypocritical."

The Edge, whose real name is David Evans, promises development on the properties will address those concerns with care.

"My family and I love Malibu, having maintained a residence here for more than a decade," he told the Times. "These homes will be some of the most environmentally sensitive ever designed in Malibu—or anywhere in the world. I'm disappointed that certain critics either don't have the facts or have ulterior motives."

The Grammy-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer has "certificates of compliance" from Los Angeles County establishing that the land he owns meets all legal requirements.

Edge added that he and Irish real estate investor Derek Quinlan plan to take up residence in two of the homes and most likely flip the other three, which has rankled some neighbors whose peace and quiet will be rattled by all the building.

The California Coastal Commission is expected to review the environmental impact of the project in June.

This is not the first fight Evans has found himself in with neighbors.

He and the rest of U2 came under fire in their hometown of Dublin for now defunct plans to build the so-called U2 Tower, a proposed skyscraper in the heart of the city that would've been the tallest in Ireland. Preservationists claimed the $220 million project would have resulted in the tearing down of four adjacent historic buildings.