Archive | Bono

Looks like Bono is sitting behind Paul McCartney at the Grammys.

The National Prayer Breakfast kicked off today at the Hilton Washington Hotel with President Bush introducing Bono by saying: “You know, I was trying to figure out what to say about Bono.” Bono remarked, ” Careful.” President Bush continued, “And a story jumped to mind about these really good Texas preachers. And he got going [...]

Bernard Henri-Levy, promoting the book American Vertigo on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, asked John Stewart if Bono was ever a guest on the program. John replied that Bono had been asked, but declined the invitiation. The topic of Bono came up as Bernard was talking about how he travelled 1500 miles to explore America [...]

from Slate.com–snippet from a Jody Rosen review of Mary J. Blige’s new album, The Breakthrough. …Toward the end of the album, Blige encounters a heretofore immovable object: Bono. In a live recording from the Hurricane Katrina relief telecast, she joins U2, one of the few acts in the world with a comparable mastery of the [...]

While in Boston for U2′s December tour dates, Bono was seen not only at Harvard University meeting with people at the Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government on behalf of the work he does with DATA, he also spent time meeting the leadership at MIT’s new Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. In [...]

Time Magazine named Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Bono, as Persons of the Year for all of their work for Africa. Time’s website is chock-full of information about all of the work they’ve been doing over the past 365 days. Congratulations!