Bono continues to tick off all the magazine covers in the world, one by one. This time, he’s on the cover of the current MIT Technology Review and is the cover story interview inside. Great first line: “To say that Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2 is like saying that Thomas [...]
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Neil Young Criticizes Bono’s “Long-Winded Oratory”
More Sinatra, less (or no) Bono. That’s what Neil Young said he wanted in his new autobiography Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream. A writer, music industry veteran, and friend of U2 passed along the remark that “Neil makes some nasty comments about Bono’s Sinatra tribute speech at the Grammys in his new book.” Really? So of [...]
Bono Bought Me A Pizza, Box Offered To Museum
The Little Museum of Dublin announced last month it is creating a permanent exhibit of U2′s history and are looking for rare memorabilia for the collection. Last week museum curator Simon O’Connor told me they are primarily interested in pieces that help tell the story of the role Dublin has had in U2′s history, which probably rules out [...]
Broadway Spidey Saved By A “Team Turnaround”
In a new book on leadership skills, Joe Frontiera and Daniel Leidl discuss the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark as a case study in Team Turnarounds: A Playbook for Transforming Underperforming Teams. Bono, Edge, and Julie Taymor’s work was just one of their case studies, the others being a NFL team, a university child-care center, a [...]
“Eye Surgery” For The Girl With A Beard
Steve Reynolds was a communications officer with World Vision in Ethiopia when Bono and Ali visited in 1985. In World Vision’s spring 2012 magazine, he reflects on when God performed “eye surgery” on Bono to sharpen his vision. I hadn’t thought about a possible influence from Marcel Proust for the lyric in “Stand Up Comedy” about the [...]
[PHOTOS] U22 Has Arrived
Like U2.com said a week ago, my U22 was on its way. It arrived this afternoon. I didn’t see how it came, it was just on the porch when I went to get the regular ol’ mail. There is a United States Postal Service tracking # on it, but it also says it is from “UPS [...]
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