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Apr 242007
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LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Reuters) - Irish rock star and anti-poverty campaigner Bono is taking part in this week’s "American Idol" charity fund-raiser, organizers said on Tuesday.
The U2 lead singer will appear in a prerecorded segment on Wednesday night urging viewers of the show to call in donations to charities that work with young people in Africa and the United States.
Bono spent last weekend with the remaining six "Idol" contestants, who will perform "American Prayer" — the song he wrote some years ago with Dave Stewart about the AIDS emergency in Africa — during Wednesday’s two-hour special "Idol Gives Back."
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Apr 232007
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U2 guitarist the Edge has paid almost $15 million for a 120-acre property in the upscale beach resort of Malibu, the Los Angeles Times said on Sunday.
The Irish rocker’s new acquisition — based in a canyon rather than on prime oceanfront — boasts a cottage and a creek, the paper added. The Edge, whose real name is Dave Evans, already has homes in Ireland and France.
He helped organize an auction of music memorabilia in New York on Saturday to raise money to buy instruments for musicians who lost their livelihoods after Hurricane Katrina.
Apr 232007
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U2’s The Edge has sold his favourite guitar at a charity auction for New Orleans musicians devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
The Gibson Les Paul had been used on every U2 tour since 1985, and was purchased for $240,000 by an anonymous buyer. A pair of Bono’s sunglasses fetched $20,000 during the auction which took place at New York’s Hard Rock Café.
Other U2 memorabilia that went under the hammer included Bono’s autographed Falcon Gretsch guitar, which reached $180,000, Adam Clayton’s Fender Jazz Bass ($22,000) and a tom drum belonging to Larry Mullen ($19,000).
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Apr 172007
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U2 stars BONO and THE EDGE are reportedly in negotiations to pen the score for a new Broadway SPIDER-MAN musical. Tony-Award winning Lion King director Julie Taymor is the brains behind the ambitious production, according to BroadwayWorld. com. Tentative rehearsals for the show are to being in July (07), according to reports. The cast will include actors filling the roles of Spider-Man Peter Parker, Mary Jane, spider-woman Arachne, villain The Green Goblin and Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson.
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Apr 172007
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BERLIN Apr 17, 2007 (AP)— German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U2’s Bono on Tuesday that the future of Africa will play a major role when Group of Eight leaders meet in June, the government said.
Bono met Merkel at the chancellery to press his call for the continent to remain high on the agenda of the world’s leading industrial countries. Germany, which chairs the G-8, will host their annual summit in the Baltic sea resort of Heiligendamm.
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Apr 132007
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As reported on the HDMag.com website:
Dublin Design
Irish music icons-turned hoteliers, U2’s Bono and the Edge, are teaming up with Foster + Partners to reinvent the Dublin’s Clarence Hotel. The London architecture firm is due to submit proposals to the Dublin City Council for an almost $200 million reinvention and expansion of the hotel.
"The redevelopment of the Clarence Hotel is an ambitious project—architecturally and structurally—with a confident yet sympathetic civic presence," says senior partner and chairman, Norman Foster.
Combining the restoration of the existing quayside façade with new additions, a "skyroom" and viewing terrace will unite the existing buildings. A number of progressive sustainability strategies, including the maximization of natural light (a sculptural "sky catcher" is designed to pull daylight in) and ventilation, will ensure an energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive mixed-use hotel, spa, and conference facility.
And a publicly accessible ground floor complete with restaurants, shops, cafés, and bars, facing both the riverfront on Wellington Quay and Essex Street East to the South, promises to create a new urban destination. "[The project] presents an exciting opportunity to regenerate Temple Bar’s river frontage, while also creating a bold new addition to Dublin’s skyline," says Foster.
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