From ‘Killing Bono’ to Defending Bono

I think we’ve reported somewhere on the site that Bono is featured on the cover of the current issue of the UK magazine, The Word. Can’t say I’ve read the piece myself, but maybe that’s for the better.

Neil McCormick, longtime friend of the band, longtime music writer, author of the Killing Bono: I Was Bono’s Doppelganger book, and ghost/co-writer of U2 by U2, read the article and wrote a lengthy reply on his personal web site: Bono – a case for the defence.

There is only one Bono. And I’ve got a question for Word and all the other Bono critics who seem to be so offended by his existence. What does it say about them, that the rock star they would put on trial is the one who is making the most effort to do some good in the world?

You go, Neil. Bono’s certainly not immune to criticism, but at least he’s trying to do something.

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  1. Keir 21 June 2009 at 10:53 am permalink

    “the UK magazine”

    There’s your answer, m2. The UK music press seems to be–to have always been–the most disproportionately vicious and reactionary thing.

    Snide, smug, destructive, arrogant, fickle, and absolutely humorless, even when I agree with them. Takes one to know one, right?

    They say that sarcasm is the first step to sociopathy, after all.