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U2 and OASIS have been criticised for their hits in a British radio poll to find the worst song lyrics ever written. "I’ve got no self control/ Been living like a mole" from U2’s Elevation, and "Slowly walking down the hall/ Faster than a cannonball" from Oasis’ Champagne Supernova have been nominated as the groups’ most derided lyrics.

Other contenders in the BBC 6 Music’s worst lyrics poll are ABC’s That Was Then But This Is Now, Snap’s Rhythm Is a Dancer, Razorlight’s Somewhere Else, Des’Ree’s Life, Human League’s The Lebanon, Duran Duran’s Is There Something I Should Know, Black Sabbath’s War Pigs and Toto’s Africa.

 - ContactMusic

U2’s PopMart tour might be remembered more for the band getting temporarily stuck in a giant lemon than anything else. But that won’t stop the Irish quartet from issuing PopMart Live From Mexico City on DVD this summer.

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Rock Star Bono, American Lawmakers Seek Expanding U.S. Aid for Global Education

WASHINGTON, May 1, 2007 - Rock star Bono has tried to feed the world and he’s tried to heal the world. Now, he’s trying to help some U.S. lawmakers teach the world.

The lead singer of the Irish group U2 - and perennial advocate for anti-poverty programs - on Tuesday joined with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and other lawmakers seeking to expand basic education around the world.

"I can’t vote for any of them, but I’m thankful for what they’re doing," Bono said from Ireland during a conference call with legislators. "This is why I’m a fan - and an annoying fan at times - of America."

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NEW YORK (Reuters) — Television singing talent show "American Idol" proved its clout as a U.S. cultural phenomenon on Wednesday by raising more than $30 million for young people in Africa and the United States.

A two-hour show filled with inspirational songs, movie, television and music stars and stories of poverty from Africa and the United States rounded off the two-night special.

"People say you can’t be the generation that ends brutal, stupid poverty, but we can and we will," Bono, U2’s lead singer and leading spokesman for the ONE Campaign to Make Poverty History, said in a prerecorded segment.

"I have been in front of 70,000 people here in L.A. and its a pretty amazing feeling. I can’t think of any feeling better except perhaps the feeling that you can save somebody’s life and there is not one person watching this program tonight who cannot save a life," he said.

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The leading rock and pop bands in Britain account for nearly £3bn of the country’s wealth, it has been revealed.

In a list of the richest people in the UK to be published this weekend, the Rolling Stones account for more than £570m, with U2 not far behind, collectively valued at £487m.

The four band members, Bono, Adam Clayton, Dave Evans (the Edge) and Larry Mullen, split all their earnings evenly with their manager, Paul McGuinness.

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