Oh stop.
With the exception of Keith Richards, who's corpse will eventually be studied by scientists around the world to figure out who in the hell he's still alive... the major touring acts who are still out there touring in their late 60s and 70s... Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen... they are in PHENOMENAL physical shape.
Bono? Not that dude.
Edge and Adam seem to be, but Larry's body has been falling apart since Pop. And they won't continue if one of them doesn't want to, or can't, go on... they're an all or nothing act, unlike the Stones or a solo act
Plus the band has always been one to chase relevancy... they're struggling with their inability to get it now. They'd have to have full acceptance of being the rock jukebox to continue much further beyond this album, and it's hardly a given that all 4 will want to do that.
I do hope I'm wrong - but every U2 fan should treat each show and album cycle going forward as potentially the end (and probably should have been treating every tour post 360 this way).
I'd definitely agree with this. I've always thought if the public/fans turned there back on new u2 music and the demand was really low I couldn't see u2 carrying on. They seem to care to much about being relevant, about being number 1 and being on the radio.
Whether u like their new stuff or think their relevant or not is a totally different debate all together.
Me personally, soe has sold practically a million copies in 5 weeks. Pretty sure imagine dragons and Linkin park were the only bands last year to top 1 million. U2 are still up there wth anyone, apart from Coldplay. So based on the current market there's still a big demand for u2 music.
I take my hat off to them aswell, 40 years in and there still pushing themselves to release their best work. They could quite easily just tour the back catalogue but they still have that spirit to keep trying to release "that" song or " that album"