Originally posted by Cypress:[..]
Um no. I think he looks much more relaxed on the latest pictures than he does on the pics that were taken in NY and Cannes before his surgery.
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And of course he's not jumping around happily and laughing right now - he's had a very traumatic injury and having to postpone a whole tour leg isn't exactly a reason to be overly happy.
Originally posted by BelgianBono:[..]
Hmm you're saying opposite things here
And something else. Really no sarcasm intented, just interested, but are you saying now you actually SAW before the operation, when no one knew anything, he was in pain ?!
Cause i think nobody had a clue
Originally posted by BelgianBono:[..]
Hmm you're saying opposite things here
And something else. Really no sarcasm intented, just interested, but are you saying now you actually SAW before the operation, when no one knew anything, he was in pain ?!
Cause i think nobody had a clue
Originally posted by Cypress:[..]
Just saying he doesn't look like he's in horrible pain right now, and he certainly does not look "confused" but rather relaxed. Some people were commenting that he wasn't smiling and not looking "too happy", but I don't think Bono would be overly happy considering they just had to cancel a whole tour leg because of an injury that certainly wasn't fun. I guess it's very frustrating for him right now, but he seems to recover well, that's the most important thing.
What I was talking about was the timeline of events before the sugery: Bono was seen in NY on his birthday and in Cannes two days later and he didn't look too great in those pictures, instead he REALLY looked like he's in pain, especially in the Cannes ones. Some people on other forums were worried and commenting on how bad Bono looked on his birthday when we all know the man likes to party. And it's a fact that he was going back and forth from Cannes to Munich between his birthday and the surgery, apparently seeing his doctor. People saw him in Munich and saw him at the airport, he could hardly walk and was in great pain. Fans on different boards were discussing that, we were starting to get really worreid about him.
So, yes it was an emergency surgery, but still there were some pretty clear signs that Bono was in a very serious condition some days before he was actually admitted to hospital.
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Bono to return to stage in weeks - McGuinness
Evening Herald, June 23, 2010
By: Aoife Anderson
Bono will be back on stage in a matter of weeks despite his recent emergency surgery, according to U2's manager Paul McGuinness.
The Irish rocker (50) was operated on after becoming temporarily paralysed -- forcing the band to cancel the start of the U.S. leg of their 360° Tour and their headline slot at Glastonbury.
An optimistic McGuinness told the Diary: "He's making a full recovery. The doctors told me he's going to be fine. It was serious surgery but we expect him to make a full recovery. He's pretty fit."
McGuinness said there was no reason to believe the tour's massive stage production had anything to do with the singer's injury.
"It's a big stage to run around, but no," he said. "I'll be very relieved when I see him running around the stage again. The European leg of the tour starts in Turin on August 6 and that has not been postponed.
"Rescheduling the American leg is quite difficult because it is an outdoor show; we can't do it in the winter because it's the northern hemisphere.
"So what we're doing now is trying to seek availability of the buildings that we had already pretty much sold-out, so we're getting availabilities and routing a coherent tour for next summer in the U.S. and Canada. We've nearly done it so I hope we'll be able to announce that shortly."
McGuinness insisted the rest of the band hasn't been enjoying an impromptu holiday while Bono recovers.
"No not really, they're doing some work and planning to do some recording. It never stops really," he said.
© Evening Herald, 2010.
Bono Buys Big Facebook Stake
Irish rocker Bono is cashing in on the popularity of social networking website Facebook.com - the U2 frontman has nearly doubled his investment in the company.
Bono and bosses at his private-equity business Elevation Partners have thrown another $120 million into the privately-held site, bringing their total investment in Facebook to $210 million.
According to a letter to investors published by the TechCrunch blog, Elevation bosses were able to buy shares from insiders on the secondary market.
The deal could be the start of an investment turnaround for the rocker, whose blunder backing troubled cellphone maker Palm Inc. won him the dishonour of being named Worst Investor in America by financial journal 24/7 Wall Street earlier this year.
Bono's company put nearly $500 million into the debt-riddled firm, the maker of Treo and Centro smart phones, in December 2008, before stock shares plummeted.
Editors highlighted "an unprecedented string of disastrous investments which even bad luck could not explain" as the reason for choosing Bono, adding that California-based Elevation Partners is "arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States".