U2 turn down $25 million for commercial
U2’s front man Bono has revealed that himself and other members of the band
have turned down $25 million from a leading motor company. The band were
approached by the corporation and offered the sum in return for using “Where
the Streets Have No Name”.
However it caused a lot of disharmoney in the band as they all agreed that
this money could be used to fund charities but in the end the lads thought
it best to keep their long held view of not accepting commercial sponsors.
At the end of the day this song is one of the best we have written and if we
gave this song away it would have been played out in terms of usage, Bono
went on to say “It is a very special song for us, when we are not having a
great night doing gigs, we play it and all of a sudden God has entered the
room, it can change the mood of a whole gig”.
U2 are still trying to work out if they can come to some agreement with the
yet undisclosed motor company. They would really like to use this money in
funding AIDS awareness in Africa and also other home grown causes such as
Goal.
U2 from their early days have always turned down money in return for
commercialisation, 10 years ago the band was offered in the region of $5
miilion by Microsoft. If U2 were to accept this offer it would be the
largest sum of money paid for the use of music to a commercial.
Each member of U2 is now rumoured to be worth in excess of Euro150 million.
- The Sunday World
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