Bono shows up Tuesday night in a documentary airing on North Carolina public TV called Senator No. It’s about former Senator Jesse Helms, and Bono talks about gaining the Senator’s support to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa. You can see a clip of Bono’s interview on the Raleigh News and Observer blog.
Did anyone watch the Bono Biography on the Biography channel earlier this week? How many sites are there out there with *correct* information about U2 and Bono? Couldn’t the writer/producer of this program have checked their sources?
To have the program claim that the October album came out in 1983 with songs like “Sunday Bloody Sunday” on it really disappoints me.
There are a few other inconsistencies with the program on Biography. One would think that if you were putting something to broadcast with the reputation that the Biography channel has, they’d make sure their information was correct. Anyone else disappointed with the content of this program?
Comedy Central’s South Park has taken the piss out of Bono’s crap - seriously. The episode first aired last night, and will rebroadcast tonight at 10 p.m.
One of U2’s very first television appearances in the United States was on the NBC late night program “The Tomorrow Show” hosted by Tom Snyder. Word came out today that Tom passed away at the age of 71 from complications due to leukemia.
He had a great sense of humor and got what U2 was about at the very beginning. Check out their visit with Tom a few decades ago:
The ABC Network has a new television program for the summer months called “The Next Best Thing” where the goal is to be the best celebrity/personality impersonator.
In last night’s episode, Pavel Sfera got through to the next round as he was able to impress 2 of the 3 judges with his Bono impersonation. If he sounds familiar, he’s the one who had the city of Boston all aflutter with people believing Bono was in town, as well as representing yer man at Universal Studios in California.
Based on the Celine Dion and Little Richard impersonators, Pavel has quite an uphill road in winning the competition. We’ll keep you posted on if the imitation Bono is even better than the real thing =)
My father clued me in to a special on the Documentary Channel tonight called “In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story,” and I’m so glad he did. (It’s from 1999, so some of you may have seen this already. But it was new to me.) Bono puts in a couple of appearances; his longest segment describes meeting Roy Orbison and how “She’s a Mystery to Me” came to be. If you don’t have the channel, you can see Bono’s segment on YouTube, which is actually a little longer than the one in the documentary:
But if you have access to the Documentary Channel and have even the slightest interest in Roy Orbison, I highly recommend watching the entire special. (It’s on again at 9 p.m. EDT Thursday.) I watched it because of Bono, but in the process, I gained a new respect for Roy Orbison and his amazing talent. That seems to be how U2 works for me. I watch and listen because I love our boys, but through that I’m introduced to something wonderful that I hadn’t given much consideration to before. And as a fan of such a demonstrative performer as Bono, it’s interesting to see the contrast in Orbison’s beautifully understated performances: the yin and yang of rock and roll.
