Bono responds to the Davos Question
Bono, influential activist and rock god, gives his views on fighting poverty and what we need to do in 2008 to change the world.
Don’t change your light bulbs - CHANGE your leaders
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Bono Sings Wave Of Sorrow | U2 remastered release of The Joshua Tree
OK - so I am a U2 Fan - but this video really is awesome - a really touching video and an amazing song.
Very powerful - and comes with a very serious message to (What else would you expect from Bono)
Bone and U2 used iLike.com to post a video of Bono singing “Wave of Sorrow” while sitting on a couch.
“Wave of Sorrow” is a track that U2 demoed during sessions for The Joshua Tree in 1987.
As Bono plays the track, he sings over it and talks listeners through the story of the song and explains the lyrics.
“Wave of Sorrow” will be released for the first time next week on the remastered release of The Joshua Tree.
Bono Sings Wave Of Sorrow | U2 remastered release of The Joshua Tree
Side Note: The Joshua Tree was the first ever U2 Album I owned
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Bono - you know all about him, don’t you? He’s the Irish lead singer of U2 - eradicator of poverty and champion of Africa, isn’t he? Well, it appears that he also has the power to erase the memory from your phone. According to Johnny Borrell of Razorlight, ”Nobody has Bono in their contacts! Bono doesn’t have a number that can stick in contacts. The last time Bono phoned me, it wiped all my saved text messages out of my phone.
He added: “It went ‘ching, ching, ching, ching’ like that - like a Pac-Man thing. He deleted all my text messages - it was amazing! Maybe he was using Al Gore’s phone of some secret service stuff, but there was no way you could get the number to call him back because not only had the number gone but the whole call history had gone. I don’t think anyone’s got Bono’s number.”
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News of dismisal performance of Bono’s RED campaign haven’t stopped Vanity Fair inviting the U2 front man to be the guest edior of the July issue. His editorial mission to try and ‘rebrand’ Africa. On the basis of these facts Bono could do with focusing more on the substance of his mission and less on style, logos and marketing.
* In the year since it was founded, his Red campaign (licensed to Gap, Motorola, Apple etc)
has raised $18 million - but companies have spent $100 million to market it.
* Bono doesn’t invest his own money in Red.
* Apple sells a Special Edition U2 iPod. Its profits are not donated to Red.
* U2 made $389m from the recent Vertigo tour. Its revenue was then funnelled through
companies mostly registered in Ireland and structured to minimize taxes.
* U2 moved its music publishing company to the Netherlands from Ireland in June 2006, six
months before Ireland ended a tax exemption on musicians’ royalty income.
* Richard Murphy, adviser to lobbying group the Tax Justice Network, says “This is somebody who’s exceptionally rich taking the opportunity to shift his tax burden to somebody else, but
then asking governments around the world to spend that tax take in the way that he would like.”
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A group of friends and dedicated U2 fans are teaming up to turn Aloha Stadium (RED) for the band’s Dec. 9 concert.
(RED) is a brand created to raise awareness and money for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa. Gap, Motorola and Apple are participating in the effort, donating a portion of the sale of its (RED) items to the charity.
Organizers are encouraging concert-goers through blogs to wear anything red that night in support of the campaign created by U2 frontman Bono.
U2 will end its Vertigo tour on O’ahu. Pearl Jam and Rocko and the Devils will open the show, which starts at 7:30 p.m.
For more informationhttp://www.geocities.com/onehonolulu OR http://www.joinred.com/
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U2’s frontman, has finally got his hat back. Bono has won the High Court battle to retrieve his cowboy hat from his former stylist, Lola Cashman.
Ms Cashman has been in possession of the hat, along with a pair of metal hoped earrings, a green sweatshirt and a pair of black trousers since the band’s Joshua Tree tour in 1987.
The stylist says she was given the hat and other memorabilia as gifts. But after a lengthy and costly legal fight with the rockers, the judge in Dublin ruled that on the balance of probability the items were not given to her.
Bono’s defence in court was “A Stetson was always part of my idea of how I wanted to present myself to the world in an ironic sense,”
He stressed it was important to the band to keep a record of their memorabilia, adding: “We thought it would have some importance of the history of the band.”
Hmmmm so important in fact, that the question of ownership only arose after 20 years when Ms Cashman may have been about to make a few thousand pounds in Sotheby’s from the sale of the items. A cynic may be led to believe that the historical content of the hat and trousers only mattered once some publicity had been generated from them. A cynic may also wonder how much more Mr. Hewson will manage to sell them for now??
Quoted: The Sun
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