--- description: Nearly a month after the terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, U2 offered a defiant and unifying message Sunday night title: 'Tonight We Are All Parisians,' U2 Says During Concert image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19836c818d889600/698873f1428a9e3041cd06b5/ap_90254746651.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # 'Tonight We Are All Parisians,' U2 Says Defiantly During Concert by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 7, 2015 2:25 AM CUT  Bono of U2 performs on stage during a concert, in Paris, Dec. 6, 2015 Bono of U2 performs on stage during a concert, in Paris, Dec. 6, 2015Thibault Camus—AP by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 7, 2015 2:25 AM CUT Nearly a month after the [terrorist attacks](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks "undefined") in Paris that killed 130 people, U2 offered a defiant and unifying message Sunday night during a 27-song concert at the city’s AccorHotels Arena. “Tonight we are all Parisians,” the band’s singer, Bono, [told the crowd](http://www.u2.com/tour/date/id/45561375 "undefined"). “We stand together with the families who have lost lives here in Paris. We stand together with the families who have lost lives San Bernardino, in Damascus and Beirut. “We stand together with the families whose children have been taken hostage by an ideology that shows none of the mercy or compassion of the god they deem… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/tonight-we-are-all-parisians-u2-defiant-during-concert-n475181?cid=par-time%5F20151207 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/"},"headline":"'Tonight We Are All Parisians,' U2 Says Defiantly During Concert","datePublished":"2015-12-07T02:25:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:08:51.340Z","description":"\"We stand together with the families who have lost lives here in Paris\"","url":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/","keywords":["Music","Terrorism","Beirut","Bono","U2","Concert","Damascus","san bernardino","paris attacks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19836c818d889600/698873f1428a9e3041cd06b5/ap_90254746651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19836c818d889600/698873f1428a9e3041cd06b5/ap_90254746651.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"France Paris Attacks U2","caption":"France Paris Attacks U2","creditText":"Thibault Camus—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/","name":"'Tonight We Are All Parisians,' U2 Says Defiantly During Concert"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Watch Obama Visit the Bataclan in Paris","description":"He went to the site of the terrorist attack that left 89 dead","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/arFYgTiY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-30T02:27:01.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/arFYgTiY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/","duration":"PT37S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4137981/u2-paris-concert/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```