Robbie Robinson ([email protected])
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 20:23:06 -0700
I didn't see this come up on Wire, so I swiped this off of Heaven since
it's something Bono wrote:) I anybody has the rest of the forward he
wrote. Please post it or give us a url where we can read it.
I haven't tracked down the book yet, myself.
>In Tom Doyle's recently published biography of Billy MacKenzie, "The
>Glamour Chase - the maverick life of Billy MacKenzie", Bono
>contributes
>a brief foreword. The first paragraph goes like this:
>
>"The best aesthetes are working-class. Courage by contrast. Oscar
>Wilde on the buses, Versace down the chip shop, a falsetto voice on the
>terraces. Disco ball of nerves that he was, Billy MacKenzie was an
>aesthete. The Associates were a great group: we ripped them off. Billy
>was a great singer: I couldn't rip him off. He was Caruso on a balloon
>of oxygen. He was over the top of the top and reminded me of my mate
>and similarly persecuted cabaret volcano, Gavin Friday."
>
>It then turns to consider Billy as the finest voice of his generation
>and to Bono's memories of their last meeting.
The rest of it would be nice to read.
Robbie
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