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  1. I just read Bono's column in the New York Times, about the investigation report concerning Bloody Sunday. (he sure can write, our Bono...)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/opinion/20bono.html?hp


    It has a nice little anecdote at the end of it:

    ".......A footnote (some light relief), November 1983:

    U2 is in a studio in Dublin, playing its new song, “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” to the record company. The melody is a good one but the lyric is, in hindsight, an inarticulate speech of the heart. It’s a small song that tries but fails to contrast big ideas ... atonement with forgiveness ... “Bloody Sunday” with Easter Sunday. The song will be sung wherever there are rock fans with mullets and rage, from Sarajevo to Tehran. Over time, the lyric will change and grow. But here, with the Cockneyed record company boss at the song’s birth, the maternity ward goes quiet when the man announces that the baby is “a hit”... with one caveat: “Drop the ‘bloody.’ ‘Bloody’ won’t bloody work on the radio.” ............

    brings a smile to my face....
  2. Great extract ...

    The truth is that SBS is still powerful and well known, when I ask my friends (most of them hate U2) which song they like the most, they ALL tell me SBS. Its meaning is still there, and although we (hard-die-fans-who-have-listened-SBS-in-about-300-bootlegs) don't like it that much and want it dropped, it was a landmark in U2's career (both musically and politically) and therefore I understand that it's still being played. And, going slightly offtopic, good thing that the english government finally apologized for the bloody Sunday events
  3. FROM ATU2 :



    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.
  4. Good news above since they won't postpone any more shows, and Its' also good to know Bono's getting fine soon

  5. 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".


    http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/bono_buys_big_facebook_stake.html
  6. Originally posted by RattleandHum1988:lol all Yeah does is complain it seems like, I don't come around here TOO too often, but when I do, and whenever I see something yeah posts its always negative


    Not true, not necessary and not to be repeated thank you.
  9. Facebook sponsoring the next leg of the tour more likely. 'Get your profile up on the big screen'


  11. 'click here if you liked the last song' (40,000 thumbs up)
  12. What a naive person I am. I thought Bono was having finally some time on his own trying to write some good songs or figuring out a "perfect" setlist for the next leg. And here comes the answer what he's been doing where his passion had gone. Hey Edge, bring on Matt Bellamy to the next leg
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