RS End of year U2 comments
M. Teresa Doherty ([email protected])
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:56:09 -0500
Wireworld!
For those of you who aren't subscribing to Rolling Stone (and I don't
blame you - I only subbed for the Pop/PopMart coverage, then let it
slide - though my subscription ran out in Sept, they're still sending me
copies!), here's the comment made in the year-end wrap-up, month by
month:
In May, with the well known picture from the Yes Concert:
<<caption: He's wearing Joseph Stalin's hat, but he's got Albert
Schwitzer's heart. Protestant leader David Trimble, Bono and Catholic
leader John Hume (from left) link arms in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
If you go through all the trouble of changing your name to Bono, you
may as well live up to it. Bono (which is loosely Latin for good) has
kept his side of the bargain: He did that Band Aid song; he did
volunteer work in Ethiopia; he even spent one Christmas (sic) in
Sarajevo, Bosnia. And this year he got a chance to flex his good vibes
for his own people. U2 played a concert in Belfast, coaxing people to
vote for a historic peace accord that would hopefully end centuries of
violence between Catholics and Protestants. Bono told the crowd to give
peace a chance - and lo and behold, they did. A few days later, the
accord was passed.>>
Nice to have Rolling Stone say something positive about the boys,
instead of being smart-assed and sarcastic. Shame they couldn't quite
get the facts right (since Bono spent New Year's Eve, not Christmas, in
Sarajevo).
Teresa in Richmond
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