PATTY CULLITON ([email protected])
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 20:50:32, -0500
But your essay displayed heroism in three respects within one story -
the band's heroism for not being afraid to express their feelings
quite loudly, Bono's heroism for continuing with the show in the face
of the threat, and Adam's heroism for placing himself between Bono
and any bullet that might have come along.
>From the book BONO IN HIS OWN WORDS:
"There was a night in L.A. in the early part of the tour when we had
a death threat that the police were taking very seriously indeed.
Someone had sent the gun licence into the U2 offices and they thought
he had gotten into the venue. All of a sudden there were all these
people on the stage which I really objected to. I never thought that
sort of thing would bother me and, when I went out, it didn't. I
just laughed it off, like The Blues Brothers - 'We're on a mission
from God and we ain't finished yet.' The second night came up and
the cops came up to us just before we were about to go on and said
they'd made a mistake, He was coming tonight!
"Now we get all kinds of racist jibes because we wrote a song for
Martin Luther King, or pinko jibes because we did the Amnesty
International Tour. Wherever you look we're a target for the loony
fringe. So the second night, we're on stage and I'm singing 'Pride'
thinking, 'If someone is going to do it it will be during this number.
' So I crouched down on the stage, shut my eyes and for a moment the
thought of death crossed my mind. When I looked up I just saw Adam
standing over me, between me and the crowd. It was a good, good
moment." -Bono, December 1987
(Also, if you have not turned this in yet ... you have a typo where
you are missing an "n" in "an" toward the bottom of the essay. You
have "a" instead of "an" before a word starting with a vowel. Should
read "It is *an* event like this...")
Cheers. Nice work.
In The Name Of Love, Patty
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