Countdown to Lift Off

12 Sep 2009
Here's the band hitching a lift from Newark to Chicago ahead of tonight's show. 'A borrowed plane,' observes Edge. 'But it's not too shabby.' Three, two, one.... the real lift-off is tonight at Soldier Field. See you there.

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