It was March 1989 when The Edge joined Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Brynsley Forde (of Aswad), Annie Lennox, the Thompson Twins, Chrissie Hynde, Jerry Harrison, and Karl Wallinger (of World Party) in Moscow to support Greenpeace’s efforts to educate and impact environmental change in the Soviet Union. As Greenpeace put it, “The gathering in [...]
If anyone wondered how U2 landed on the map as a global music force to be reckoned with, here is the 12 minutes that forever changed their career from a quarter century ago.
CNN is reporting that demonstrations are planned across the globe marking Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday and calling for her release from house arrest. Political leaders are also trying to put the pressure on the government to release Suu Kyi. President Obama said, “I once again call on the Burmese government to release Aung [...]
In October, 2009, many of you may remember Bono’s friend and AIDS activist Agnes Nyamayarwo as one of the speakers at the U2 Conference – The Hype and The Feedback.
Bono personally funded the antiretroviral drugs for Agnes and a group of women in her village of Kampala, Uganda back in 2002. It was [...]
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but I forgot to include this in the new OTR column that I just posted tonight. Oh, well. I’m getting old. They say memory is the second thing to go as you get older. (I don’t remember what’s first.)
So, anyhoo … this is a 20-minute interview that Bono did on Kenyan [...]
Many fans who attended the U2 Conference last October had the wonderful opportunity to hear Agnes Nyamayarwo, Ugandan nurse and activist, speak about her life. She was introduced by Bono via a taped message. The lucky fans who attended the concert in Raleigh that weekend even heard Bono give a shout out to Agnes directly [...]
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