The U2 360° Tour that was supposed to open in Salt Lake City on June 3 has been postponed until 2011, although no dates have been confirmed, Live Nation, the tour's promoter, stated in a news release Tuesday.
Details on rescheduled dates will follow "shortly," and fans should retain their tickets until the announcement, Live Nation stated.
Meanwhile, U2 lead singer Bono has been released from a German hospital following emergency back surgery, which caused the postponement of the tour.
The singer is expected to make a full recovery, but only after at least eight weeks of rehabilitation, according to the news release.
"This will necessitate the postponement of 16 shows on the U2 360° Tour from Salt Lake City on June 3 through New Jersey's Meadowlands Stadium on July 19," according to the news release.
Bono, born Paul Hewson, 50, was discharged from Ludwig Maximilians-University Hospital in Munich after a successful surgery to repair a ligament tear and a herniated disc.
Dr. Muller Wohlfahrt of the LMU Hospital said in the news release that Bono initially "suffered severe compression of the sciatic nerve," but after an MRI scan, doctors noticed the other injuries and recommended emergency spine surgery.
Bono was in "severe pain with partial paralysis in the lower leg," according to the news release. "The ligament surrounding the disc had an 8 mm tear, and during surgery we discovered fragments of the disc had traveled into the spinal canal."
U2 manager Paul McGuinness said Bono was very disappointed that the tour couldn't start on schedule.
"For a performer who lives to be on stage, this is more than a blow," McGuinness said. "He feels robbed of the chance to do what he does best and feels like he has badly let down the band and their audience.
"His concerns about more than a million ticket-buyers whose plans have been turned upside down we all share. But the most important thing right now is that Bono make a full recovery. We're working as fast as we can with Live Nation to reschedule these dates."
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