It was nice to hear today from someone who knows what Broadway and Hollywood success looks like that Bono and Edge’s decision to put on the brakes for a while for Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was a good thing. Scott Rudin has won seven Tony Awards already as a Broadway producer, and he’s behind The [...]
Remember Bono’s “Fish Can Fly” t-shirt design, with a fish traversing the moonlit, starry sky? The shirt was introduced in 2008 for the Hard Rock Cafe’s Signature 25 Series, is printed on EDUN shirts and benefits African farmers and wildlife habitats by sending 15% of the sale proceeds to the Conservation Cotton Initiative launched by [...]
At the inaugural U2 conference The Hype and The Feedback in 2009, main speaker Neil McCormick sat down with Greg Clarke of the Centre for Public Christianity (Sydney, Australia) and talked about writing Killing Bono and other equally weighty topics. Greg recently posted his two-part interview over at the CPX site. Both are really worth [...]
You really don’t need to know much to enjoy watching Jimmy Fallon, do you? But if you’ve seen Bono perform sometime in, oh, the last decade, then you’ll enjoy this clip even more. Just a few more things you might want to know to set the context: 1. Tina Fey is the 2010 recipient of [...]
“It’s one small craft for Eno, but one giant Sea for mankind” – Bono “We may as well give up … this says it all” – The Edge These are the reviews Brian Eno imagined his pals writing for his new (real) album, Small Craft On A Milk Sea, which Eno had a bit of [...]
The friendship between Adam Clayton and Michael Hoppen, a leading London-based dealer of art photography, was profiled by Hugh Montgomery for The Independent‘s “How We Met” series. It’s a great, short read, in which Adam tells us Hoppen got him interested in Japanese photography, and Hoppen says what he and Adam share is not a [...]
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