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Is Bono nervous about the new U2 album? You bet
Bono may have upstaged everyone at the opening of the Leopardstown Racing Festival, but not even the U2 frontman could halt the decline in betting turnover at the famous Christmas meeting.
Fresh from Christmas dinner in Dalkey and his victory over An Taisce, who tried to stop his rooftop extension, Bono was among the first to arrive at the Dublin race meeting.
He was there enjoying a well-earned break after putting the finishing touches to U2’s latest album.
“Sure, you’re always nervous, but we’ve gone at it as if it was our first and the critics who have gotten a chance to listen to it already have all said it’s the best yet” Bono told me, referring to the album No Line On The Horizon. ” We’re going after the younger audience this time too,” he revealed.
So could he sum up the album in three words for the fans who have yet to get the pleasure? “It’s very long,” he said with a laugh.
“My favourite song is a song called Moment of Surrender, and the first track is 150 BPM, the fastest song we’ve ever recorded,” he said, beaming with a glint in his eye behind his trademark blue glasses.
Before he left he gave me a gentleman’s kiss on the back of my hand.
U2 TO RELEASE FIVE VERSIONS OF ALBUM
Irish rockers U2 have announced plans to release five different versions of their latest album NO LINE ON THE HORIZON.
According to reports, in addition to CD and vinyl copies, three limited edition volumes will be launched, with one accompanied by a 60-page magazine-style book and a downloadable version of a new ANTON CORBIJN film.
A digi-pack edition will come complete with a 36-page booklet, a fold-out poster and the Corbijn film which contains music by U2.
The final version of the album is a box set featuring a 60-page hardback book, a second poster and a DVD version of the film.
NO LINE ON THE HORIZON is expected to be released in March 2009, it is the groups 12th studio album.
Meanwhile, U2’s lead singer BONO hit the headlines this week when it was reported he invested £100 million in Palm smartphones.
The cash came from the private equity company Elevation Partners which the musician co-founded.
No Line On The Horizon due out March 2nd
No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March 2009.
Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004.
Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London.
The album calls on the production talents of long-time collaborators Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, with additional production by Steve Lillywhite.
- U2.com
Bono & The Edge in O2 Arena Dublin, performing Van Diemen’s Land
Bono & The Edge performed in O2 Arena Van Diemen’s Land.
Recording for RTÉ’s “The View”
Bono is awarded for helping to tackle African poverty
U2 singer Bono has been awarded with the ‘Man of Peace’ prize by the Nobel peace laureates for helping to tackle African debt, poverty and disease.
Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who hosted the event, handed the frontman the Peace Summit Award in the presence of five Nobel winners.
“This is a very big award for me, because let’s be honest this is as close as I am going to get, as close as a rock star is ever going to get to the Nobel Peace Prize,” Bono said.
“I am an over-awarded, over-rewarded rock star. You are the people who do the real work.
“Last year’s recipients included Hollywood actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle, reports AFP
- NME
