“Bono’s actually — even though he’s small, he has this huge — like a bison head, this really big head.” Poor Bono! That’s how photographer Gregory Heisler describes Bono in a video explaining how he put together the cover shot that TIME magazine used when it named Bono, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates as “persons […]
That list of the weirdest U2 crafts that Rashas wrote about a few days back was obviously written before anyone saw this. That’s Bono done up in the shape of a giant egg … an egg that also happens to be up for auction this month. If you’re in Dublin during the next couple weeks, […]
Here’s a great find from U2Valencia.com: video of Bono singing an unfinished demo version of “Walk On” about four months before the song was released on All That You Can’t Leave Behind. The video is from June 23, 2000, when a group called TROCAIRE organized a small birthday party/event in Dublin in honor of Aung […]
With stunning news out of Rome this morning that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning, the oddsmakers are already taking wages on who the next Pope will be. Paddy Power, a bookmaker in Ireland, has issued a list of potential candidates. Concluding the list is Bono, with a 1000 to 1 odds against him! The world […]
You might recall that Bono made a surprise appearance at the annual Festival au Desert in Mali just about one year ago. It seems like he’s involved in the event again this year, even though it’s going to be in a much different form. Due to violence and unrest in the area, the festival has […]
Muscle Shoals, a new documentary about the Alabama town that hosted some amazing artists and recording sessions in the 1960s and ’70s, makes its debut at the Sundance Film Festival this Saturday … and Bono makes an appearance in the film. His presence is a bit odd, at least to me, because I’m not aware […]
Bono continues to tick off all the magazine covers in the world, one by one. This time, he’s on the cover of the current MIT Technology Review and is the cover story interview inside. Great first line: “To say that Bono is the lead singer of the rock band U2 is like saying that Thomas […]
Forget the hundreds of millions of albums sold, forget the globetrotting tours that set records that may never be broken, forget the throngs of adoring fans … you know you’ve made it when scientists name a spider after you. That honor has been bestowed on Bono. According to the Riverside Press-Enterprise, taxonomist Jason Bond recently […]
Thanks to @u2_news on Twitter for pointing out this neat video that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the annual Christmas Eve busking session that Bono and several Dublin singer friends did back on December 24th (of course). It runs about 15 minutes. You’ll see Bono rehearsing with the other artists early on in the video, […]
Bono says that Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is the “most perfect song in the world.” In The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah,” a recent book by Alan Light, Bono lauds the song that first appeared on Cohen’s album Various Positions in 1984. The tune has been wildly popular, being covered […]
