Happy Birthday B-Man, 49!

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Happy Birthday Bono!

Pictures of the Claw being built in Belgium

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U2 Exit reader Bart sent us a link to the building of the stage claw for the U2 360 tour.

Bono flashes his BlackBerry in a battle of smart phones

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WHEN Bono strides onto the stage at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona on June 30, Jim Balsillie will be a happy man.

The beginning of U2’s world tour marks the start of a high-profile sponsorship for BlackBerry. This tie-up is designed to speed up the journey of the gadget from the businessman’s briefcase to the pocket of the ordinary consumer.

For Balsillie, the joint chief executive of Research in Motion (RIM), BlackBerry’s parent company, it shows he intends to do more than simply defend his patch in the battle with Apple and Nokia for supremacy in the growing smart-phone market, where the mobile phone has morphed into a handheld computer.

What started life as a portable e-mail device, wrecking family weekends, has become something the younger generation uses to listen to music through applications such as Pandora and Slacker. Pictures of Barack Obama clutching his BlackBerry while on the election trail have only burnished its credentials. (more…)

AWF – Auctions for U2 tickets ending soon!

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The African Well Fund is capping off its seventh annual Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday fundraiser by auctioning two pairs of general admission tickets for the upcoming U2 360° Tour through our eBay page, http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/theafricanwellfund .

The first pair of tickets for Sept. 12 at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the first North American date of the tour ends tomorrow morning!

The second pair for Oct. 29 at Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium, the final date of the tour, will end Saturday morning, May 9.

Results of both auctions will be announced on the AWF homepage on May 10, Bono’s birthday.

Funds raised from the auctions and donations will benefit the Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday project in Liberia. Learn more about the project here http://www.africanwellfund.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2746.

AWF will continue collecting donations for this fundraiser through Bono’s May 10 birthday. To make a donation or learn more about Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday, please visit http://www.africanwellfund.org/bbwcard/2009card.html . All donors are invited to add their names and greetings to a card that will be sent to Bono via Principle Management, which can be accessed at http://www.africanwellfund.org/bbwcard/2009card.html

U2′s Bono to read poem about Elvis Presley on radio

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A 14-minute poem written by U2 frontman Bono about Elvis Presley is to receive its premiere next Wednesday (May 13).

Entitled ‘American David’, the poem is thought to have been written by Bono in 1994. A spoken word version of the piece – read and recorded by the U2 frontman two years ago – will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11pm (BST) next Wednesday.

Originally recorded during a documentary about the history of Sun Records, Bono was convinced to recite the poem by director Des Shaw.

“I said I’d love to hear it and he ran upstairs and grabbed it and just read it for us,” Shaw explained to The Times. “He said, ‘There you go, do with it what you want’.

“I suppose, really, it’s his thoughts on Elvis. He’s a huge fan and he knows an awful, awful lot about his music.

“We’ve been tossing ideas around for two years, keeping on going back to it and trying to work out how we’d use it. It took a while to work out how to produce it in a very effective but bonkers way. It’s a difficult one for Radio 4.”

The poem is set to be preceded with a warning about its language. It includes the following lines:

“Elvis the bumper stickers/Elvis the white knickers/Elvis the white nigger ate at Burger King and just kept getting bigger”.

- NME