Matérias e Artigos

Relembrando a primeira mensagem :

Matérias e artigos de revistas, jornais etc, que não estejam diretamente relacionadas com a banda, mas com alguma conotação pessoal.

:sorriso:

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:

Beterraba escreveu:toda vez que eu escuto essa frase na música eu fico pensando "tem como o bono ficar mais louco q isso?"

Pior q tem...vc nem imagina :: :: :lingua:

prefiro não imaginar

The Edge anda irritando seus vizinhos em Malibu....


O problema se iniciou quando o músico anunciou que pretende construir cinco casas no terreno que adquiriu nas regiões do Latigo Canyon e Serra Retreat, para tal obra ele terá que escavar parte de uma montanha para erguer os edíficios.

"Há dois anos ele apareceu em casa e disse que seria meu futuro vizinho. Ele foi amigável a carismático. Eu fiquei contente em saber que ele compraria o terreno, pois achei que ele estaria preocupado com o meio ambiente. Mas não foi isso que aconteceu", disse o morador Jim Smith, que também é empreiteiro de obras, ao jornal Los Angeles Times.

"Quando eu expressei minha relutância sobre a obra, ele me disse que entendia minha preocupação, mas não fez nada a respeito", queixou-se.

Enquanto isso outros moradores dos arredores disseram estar preocupados com o aumento dos riscos de enchentes e erosão, assim como com a perda da vista local.

U2br

Edge,o inimigo da natureza

pra que cinco casas?
uma só pras guitarras e toucas dele?

Beterraba escreveu:pra que cinco casas?
uma só pras guitarras e toucas dele?

E outras para a coleção de all-star e camisetas de números

Casa 1 - Edge e família
Casa 2 - Bono e família
Casa 3 - Larry e família
Casa 4 - Adam e quem ele quiser
Casa 5 - Paul McG€€€€

duvido que o larry fosse pra lá

Beterraba escreveu:duvido que o larry fosse pra lá

Não se esqueça beterraba q o Larry esta mudado...

é uma casa pra cada filho né gente.

por isso mesmo q devia construir longe,pq nada com distancia de irmão pra deixar relacionamento agradabilissimo

Beterraba escreveu:por isso mesmo q devia construir longe,pq nada com distancia de irmão pra deixar relacionamento agradabilissimo

é concordo com você!

Transcrição de uma entrevista do Bono a uma rádio em Dublin (23/08/93)

B: ...Once you've got these goggles you've got all the attitude you need.

GR: You can buy the tattoos then.

B: The stick-on ones. Yeah my baby Jordan has them stuck all over her body, she looks like a Hell's Angel extra at the moment, but they're not for real. How're you doing Gerry.

GR: Good, you're welcome.

B: Thankyou.

GR: Last time we actually sat in this studio, but it's now been quite radically changed, and you were singing 'Puppy Love' in the nude. Do you remember that?

B: (mumbles) Oh I do, yeah. Luckily.

GR: It was a lot later than it is now.

B: That's unfair to bring that up this early in the morning.

GR: And I have searched long and hard to find a copy of that. And I'd hoped maybe that the time would come when I could sell copies of it on O'Connell Street.

B: I just don't know how Dave Fanning got us all to take our clothes off, but I think there was some bribery involved.

GR: Well did you not read the Sunday World yesterday?

B: I actually just got into town so I've missed the papers.

GR: That's a rock phrase for couldn't be bothered folks.

B: No no, I like the Sunday World, I'm a fan.

GR: Sunday World said that it was you who dreamt up the nude idea.

B: (laughs) Right, OK. So how did I convince Dave Fanning to do it then? Must have been a lot of bribery involved.

GR: That's right, he was in the nude!

B: Oh he was, yes, I remember his very hairy legs! His spindly hairy legs. 'Cos I'd often wondered what had happened his beard, but obviously it just moved south.

GR: And the then director of radio programs, a feller called Mikey Carroll, chose that exact moment to bring his children in to have a look at the studios.

B: This is true.

GR: Anyway, enough of the past. Where have you been over the last 24 hours?

B: Well we didn't play last night, we played four nights in Wembley Stadium in London, which ended on Saturday night, which was great because it's sort of, now the party begins, it's downhill...

GR: I can't believe what I read just then, it's been two years, you've been at it for two years.

B: Yeah. Yeah. Fifteen, fifteen going on two.

GR: Extraordinary, two years with the current tour.

B: Yeah, but they all kind of blur together, I mean we haven't actually had that much time away from U2 for a much longer period, and in those two years we've made another record as you probably... I hope you have a copy.

GR: The one with the funny colours on the front.

B: That's the one yeah.

GR: It's quite good.

B: And the funny lyrics on the inside.

GR: Were you scared with that record, I remember when it arrived in here, and I think there was one or two people outside who were responsible for carrying it in here, and it's like, you know when you give something different to somebody, and they don't know what to say about it, but they've got to say it's brilliant anyway, but then they'll take it home and have a listen to it, and they go, "Oh God it's quite different."

B: It is a bit different. Well it was made in the kind of... these are the songs you hear in your head when you've been on the road for two years. So they're probably a little deranged, a little demented, but isn't that what we expect from our rock'n'roll stars Gerry.

GR: _Are_ you a rock'n'roll star?

B: I dunno! I don't feel like one right now, right this second I'm not feeling like a rock'n'roll star, I'm feeling like a...

GR: Are you tired?

B: Yeah I'm feeling tired; I feel great, but I feel tired. I'm sort of a part-time rock'n'roll star. Pretending to be one.

GR: With two years charging around the place, where's the family been all this time? I mean the imagination runs riot that Bono has a kind of capsule that he gets into and he gets catapulted back home to tuck everybody into bed.

B: No in our house I get tucked into bed. Well the thought of Daddy leaving in a fleet of limousines while Ali and the kids have faces pressed up against the window and waving goodbye, sobbing; it's a nice thought, but unfortunately it's not the case, there's quite a party atmosphere whenever I announce we're going on tour. I don't take it personally.

GR: Do they notice when you're gone? I'm noticed when I come back alright, but the leave-taking's not generally a particularly big occasion.

B: No, I mean I suppose I see my kids more than most do, because when I'm home I see them in the mornings, most people who have to get out of the house at 7 or 8 in the morning to take to the road or go to their office or factory or wherever they are, they miss the best part of their kids' day, they come home at 6, 7 or 8 in the evening and the kids are going to bed, so I'm very lucky in that respect.

GR: You've two children. For the uninitiated, what have you got?

B: I've got a 2-year-old and a 4-year-old.

GR: Boy and girl, or girl and girl...

B: Two girls, Eve and Jordan.

GR: Jordan is the first I think, yeah?

B: Yeah.

GR: Were you there when the child was born?

B: Yes, yeah, I was there alright.

GR: On who's instruction?

B: Well I'm um, I dunno, I'm not very romantic about these things, I wanted, I mean I was there because I was asked to be there. I'm a bit squeamish.

GR: Your missus asked you to be there.

B: But I went along, and I had my mind blown (laughs) I can assure you. Yeah. It's amazing.

GR: Did you go to the antenatal classes? I know that your mentor and looker-after person - I remember I had the most bizarre conversation I think I've ever had in my entire life was with Paul McGuinness, who told me this extraordinary story about a knitted vagina.

B: (laughs) I beg your pardon?

GR: Yes that's exactly what b I said. But it was a true story, it was about the antenatal classes he was attending at the time, it wasn't some bizarre sidetrack he was on.

B: I didn't think he was showing his knitted vagina to anybody!

GR: Well he didn't show it to me but he told me about it. And so he was going to those classes.

B: He must know you very well.

GR: That's the test of a man, if you know about the knitted vagina. Did you go to the classes?

B: Well I have to say I did all the breathing exercises and all the press-ups, but I did them in the privacy of my own home.

GR: Like having in a trainer?

B: Yeah, Ali took me to the classes, she GAVE the classes. "This is what happens when the baby wakes up at night, this is how you change a nappy." She gave me the classes.

GR: Were you around enough to do the waking up at night? 'Cos I did a good bit of it in the beginning but now I'm getting a bit clever, I could sleep through Hiroshima at night time.

B: No, I was up. I've been up. I mean I'm not Superdad, I don't want to get into that one, but I did my bit. I was more there for Jordan, she was underweight when she was born, so in fact she used to sleep on my chest, which I read about in the books was a very good thing to do. I mean this bonding thing, it's all a bit Californian, but I'm sure that there's something to it, and I certainly enjoyed being there, and again I'm very lucky to be available to be home for that kind of length of time.

GR: What do you do when you're not working, when you're actually at home?

B: That's a very complicated question!

GR: Alright we'll take a break and you can think about it.

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GR: During the ad break we were just talking about wives, and the inevitable danger of -

B: Well my wife doesn't like to be called wife.

GR: Does she not! What would she do if somebody said, "Hello Mrs Hewson, how are ye doin'?"

B: She wouldn't hear them.

GR: Constructive deafness.

B: (chuckles) Yeah, she wouldn't hear them.

GR: Is she the one person in the whole world, who _doesn't_ think you're brilliant.

B: (laughs) Oh God! How I wish that weren't so! No, she's been great. I mean this is somebody that gave me my bus fare for the first half of being in the band.

GR: People forget that don't they, they think that she just arrived, sort of thing.

B: No I think actually it's much harder to be around the band than be in the band. In terms of all the bullshit that goes with it, I mean our friends and family have to put up with a lot, and I think Ali, the way she deals with it is just by kind of ignoring it. I mean every time I go away, in the early days when I'd go away on tour I'd come back she'd learned how to fly aeroplanes, or she'd gone to College or done a degree, and now with the kids it's a little harder but she still manages to do a documentary on Chernobyl or whatever -

GR: But she doesn't speak about this very much, you don't read interviews with her.

B: She's completely uninterested, I mean that's not a pose or anything like that, she's just completely uninterested.

GR: As a couple how do you deal with it, because I know that there is an obsession, and it's a legitimate obsession because it's their job, with press people for instance to get him and her, "C'mon, why can't you pose together, can we not do your favourite room and the two of you will be sitting on a couch together, it'll be fine and I won't say anything that you don't want me to say." She doesn't do any of that stuff.

B: No, I think because of U2 in Ireland and everything there is a sort of problem of scale, and so if you like we are celebrities in this country in a way that we're not in other countries. I'm not very comfortable with the idea of being a celebrity, and I'm sure that we helped organise this along the way, unconsciously. It was great in the early days to get noticed and to get noticed from wherever you could, but more and more from where I'm coming from, and the band and everything, we're actually realising that that isn't our world; and our world, it's about music, and you know we're musicians, we're performers, and the dialogue is between us and our audience, and not necessarily with people who are outside of that.

GR: Have you kept your friends, in the balance have you more new friends than old friends or more old friends than new friends?

B: I've got a lot of new friends, but, you know, old friends are best. I'm sure _you_ know that -

GR: Well people like Gavin have been around for donkey's years, people like that.

B: Yeah, that's right. And I think I heard somebody say once that to really know somebody you must know their memories. And sure, Gavin and myself grew up on the same street and you know, we're good for a row. And you're as good as the arguments you get and he gives a very good argument!

GR: I wouldn't take him on, no. In any sense.

B: He'd appreciate the shirt though.

GR: He'd love the shirt! If you were lonely in the night somewhere, who would you ring? Apart from the obvious.

B: Apart from the obvious?

GR: If she wasn't in.

B: Well if God wasn't in (laughs) I dunno... I'm actually very lucky in that there is actually a lot of people who I could call. I am lucky like that. And there's 5 or 6 people that I consider (unintelligible)

GR: And do you do that?

B: Yes I do. Mm.

GR: And do you know when they actually want to go back to sleep?

B: (laughs) They do.

GR: Alright we're gonna take some music, I've no idea why - you chose some of the records? -

B: Well they showed me a list of some pretty obscure titles, so I opted for 'Love Train".

GR: By the Ojays. OK, wave that shirt.

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Gerry Ryan: And that piece of music brings us brings us to a very significant point in the interview.

Bono: Does it. What? Not the knitted vagina again. Please!

GR: There's a kind of a disbelief re the knitted vagina , let me tell you. The knitted vagina does exist, it's out there, it's pulsating as only a knitted vagina can, and it is there, it's part and parcel of - God love her, the woman will be mortified - it's part and parcel of an antenatal course that's run by a lady in Dublin, and I was told about it by Paul McGuinness, though he will probably deny it. Could be the cover of the next album!

B: Next!

GR: (laughs) Now there was a time when you had absolutely sweet Fanny Adams, in the financial department -

B: So you're back to the fanny again. Go on!

GR: That you had nothing. That you were bereft. That you were, as John Geilgud once said, in Queer Street. You were impecunious. And now you have lots of it. Do you count it?

B: I actually never was without it, ever, is the truth.

GR: Ah well you know the things they write in the papers, and the bit in the book, "He had to hitch a lift because he'd no money" .

B: Well I have been spoiled rotten from a very early age. OK, nobody's loaded, there wasn't a lot of it about, but you know, my old man was always cool, when the band was stuck he lent (Paul ?) some cash -

GR: Did he?

B: Yeah! There was an incident actually, very - I was quite moved on it, early days when a publisher offered us a deal; I think it was 3 grand before we signed a record deal and 3 grand after we signed it, and with the 3 grand we booked a tour to go to London and in fact to tour England, to try and get the record deal and then to get the other 3. On the eve of the tour he pulled out, and he said, I'm just giving you the 3 grand, so we have the deal. But you have to take it because you've booked the bands and you've booked the tickets to Holyhead. So we did tell him to fuck off, and a few people put their hands in their pockets. You know, my old man, Larry's, Adam - everybody, everybody helped out.

GR: And did they come up with 3 grand?

B: They just sort of shook a tin. But I mean it sort of did come around, and I have to say my friends have always been very good, and the kind of gang that I grew up with it was always the way, you know it's just whatever you had, you just split it. So the people who didn't have it - so I've always kind of grown up that way, so I don't - I've always felt rich, if you like.

GR: Well now you are extremely rich, which is a good thing, let nobody ever say that having loads of money is not a good thing. I mean it's not the be all and end all, it won't cure cancer, it won't get your wife back if she runs away, it won't take your husband up out of the grave, but it's a good yoke to have on standby -

B: It'll buy you the spade.

GR: It'll buy you the spade, yes it will. Now a lot of the people that you hung round with, and that you grew up with, not a million miles away from Clontarf, don't have loads of money. So the disparity between you and them now, is that ever a problem?

B: What do you mean by a problem?

GR: Well you have the ability - I even see it now with my own life; I have the ability now to go places like that (snaps fingers), I can now go, "I want to go to see the Wall in Berlin falling down. C'mon, let's go and do it." Now not a lot of people can actually do that, so, and you want your friends to be with you, you want them to come as well. So what do you do, do you get a loan for them or do you give them the money or do you just ignore their situation.

B: (musingly) Yeah... I have very stubborn friends, they always like to pay their way; it's actually very hard to be generous with a lot of them. But... I just think you've been given this freedom, if you like, and you should, you know, squander it. I mean the freedom, not the money. So if you have those kinds of thoughts, think them.

GR: Are you generous, then.

B: No, I just meant, I'm talking about freedom, ah -

GR: But _are_ you a generous person?

B: I dunno, I mean it's very easy to give away money isn't it, it doesn't take, that isn't how I would describe a generous person.

GR: What is a generous person.

B: Well I dunno, I think a generous person is probably somebody who has _time_ to spare, and I'm not sure I have much time. But just to answer your question there, it is an incredible thing to be given this freedom, and it's just important not to be dull with it. And just actually use it, and use it to make the music as well, 'cos that's where you got it from. I mean this tour is essentially a money bonfire, I can tell you, and we're all just gonna have to gather round nightly to warm our hands on it.

GR: A lot of people who don't, maybe, understand rock'n'roll don't realise how much this yoke costs, has costs and will continue costing for the next couple of nights. This is a machine that has gobbled up a vast quantity of money.

B: I think it's about 47 million to date. Yeah.

GR: We're talking about the kind of money that Ireland could spend.

B: But what a party! (laughs) What a party, this is a great way to go. And, you know, we're spending it on the people who gave it to us, so, fuck it.

GR: Alright we'll take a break.

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Gerry Ryan: It's just coming up to 25 and a half minutes to midday, one of our returned sons in the studio this morning is our guest. The ambassadorial tag; I mean everybody from Gareth Fitzgerald right up to God only knows, Michael D I suppose would be the latest one, has tried to press that upon not just you but in fact the entire entourage; that you are cultural, you are political ambassadors of this country. I often wonder about that, does that interest you?

Bono: Em, less and less, but I have to say that somebody like Michael D. Higgins, who is an incredible character, I'm even flattered that he takes our work seriously; and you know, he has a lot going, he's a very smart man, he's got vision, he's not a pain in the arse, I mean I think the sun shines out of his West of Ireland arse, actually; and so you take that as a compliment.

GR: I suppose what I'm referring to is, if you were to take that seriously, the ambassadorial tag, the, "We are bringing culture to the seven corners of the Earth from Celtic Ireland," it brings with it a certain behavioural expectation that you must be well-behaved. And give a good impression.

B: Well I couldn't buy that. Yeah I mean there is you see, I think there is a kind of "Us and them" thing that goes down with U2, but it's not the sort of corny old "Us against the establishment" you know the obvious sense, the way we look at it is that we're coming out of this country, and we're taking what we do around the world, and for a second I think maybe we thought we were the football team for a second. And for a second maybe we did think we had, I mean we HAD won the World Cup, you know in one sense, and I think that we thought, "Wow, everyone will enjoy our success, because we've stuck one on the rest of the world", there was a bit of that! And now I actually realise that's probably just a pain in the arse for people, 'cos it's U2 in their face and they must be just sick of it, and I think I might be, if I were out there.

GR: But do you think that the country's proud of you, or what way do you think the nation views you?

B: I don't know, I'm probably out of touch -

GR: Well go on give a guess then!

B: I think generally people who buy our records know what's going on. I think the rest is divided into two camps, people who just love us or people who hate us. It's hard to get a reasonable thought on us.

GR: Love or hate, actually you're right. "I hate that feller Bono!" I remember that actually - Fanning and myself; Galway; Waterboys; this feller, "I hate that feller Bono!" I said, "How do you mean, you hate him? I mean, 'I hate Hitler', maybe. I mean what exactly has he done that you hate?" "Well I just hate the way he goes on, y'know he thinks he's a big-mouth, a big bloke, thinks he's a lot to say on things!" You're right! That's the way -

B: But he IS a big-mouth, I have to say. And _I_ find I'm a bit of a pain in the arse sometimes too; but I can't help it, I _am_ him, and people want to put you back in your box all the time, and there is a thing of wanting to gag rock'n'roll. I never thought that any opinion I've had was more important than anyone else's, but it is AS important.

GR: Are your opinions informed? I suppose in a way I'm relating back maybe to the tour itself -

B: Do they HAVE to be informed?

GR: No, I don't think they necessarily have to be informed -

B: You know, go into any pub in this town and there's people sitting up there and they're just talking, and giving off and working it out, thinking out loud. That's all I do, it's just a lot more people listening.

GR: For instance the satellite link with the former Yugoslavia, I know one or two of the criticisms have been it's not detailed, it's very emotional, its focus is quite singular; that may be one of the criticisms.

B: Look, you've got to go home - in the end I'm in a rock'n'roll band, we've got to go home, we've got to go to sleep at night, you've got to look at yourself in the mirror the next day, and you are connected. Our album's called Zooropa, Europe is crumbling as we speak, and people are talking about Mastricht and European unity when there's no moral core left in Europe, we're leaving it up to the Americans to rescue these people from a bunch a fascists that are basically trying to divide up a small country on ethnic lines; we in Ireland should be sympathetic toward that. And what happened was, a very simple story, I'll just tell you, just get it out of the way; some people came from Sarajevo to see us, asked us to play there, then got in touch with us and said DON"T play there it's too bad. We're not worried about YOUR safety, we're worried about people being picked off on the way to the concert. So we couldn't play, so we were thinking well what CAN we do? And it wasn't in the papers, it wasn't on the news or it was kind of page 8, I mean people like Maggie O'Kane kept the fire going and (unintelligible) and people like that, but essentially it had moved off the front pages. Meanwhile every day we were talking to these people, who were calling us and saying, "They're saying it's quiet, but last week we'd eight kids murdered by snipers, like a turkey shoot!" So we just thought well we've got to do _something_, what do we do? We have Zoo TV, we have satellite technology at our disposal; let's jam it into our show. And if it's uncomfortable, all the better. Now by the time we got to London last week our role of irritant had passed us, because it's now in everyone's face anywhere, so it's not in the show at the moment.

GR: So we won't see it -

B: No, I mean it's everybody knows, everyone's thinking about it, people are not, you know... they're awake.

Gerry Ryan: It hasn't always been at that degree of seriousness, some of the conversations, some of the phone calls have certainly been tongue-in-cheek. What ones have entertained you most? In particular I suppose I'm referring mainly to the American tour.

Bono: Actually the European tour's been funnier.

GR: Actually I don't know why I said that, how would I know, I wasn't there!

B: Ah, you know we just hassled George Bush in the U.S., that was just sort of a running gag -

GR: You did hassle George Bush, big time! It's said that he responded, were you pleased with that?

B: (laughs) It was funny. Because the thing about Zoo TV is it draws on whatever is going on, whatever's in the air, whatever's on TV, whether that's... y'know in America telly evangelism, advertising, pornography or the U.S. elections. We just kind of bumped into them. But in Europe we've had, it's different... We've called a few fascists, we've called -

GR: Were any of them home?

B: Some of them - we got through to Craxi, we tracked him down to a hotel in Florence. He's been associated with the Mafia in Italy. That was amusing. A Swiss banker, who's reputed to have Nazi gold in his vaults actually called me back! He took it as a compliment! I said to the audience "Y'know, I've a pile of loot I want to store somewhere, where shall I" - y'know, so I called up this banker at home, and he called back! He sent his portfolio around to the hotel the next day. What else? Ah, I mean it's not all political figures, we've had Pavarotti on the phone -

GR: Who did you call last night?

B: Last night? Oh, it was very funny last night; we called Graham Taylor, the England manager, from Wembley, and 70 000 people sang 'You'll Never Walk Again'. It was great.

GR: (laughs) Oh it's time for another break I think.

B: Yeah take the break, and I'll tell _you_ about Lady Di.

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Gerry Ryan: Lady Di, right?

Bono: (laughs) Ah, now!

GR: The papers say you didn't get through, it's a pity, what would you have said to her?

B: Well I don't know if we _didn't_ get through, 'cos we got through a few switchboards and the phone was picked up -

GR: Is it somebody backstage doing, it or are you -

B: Well actually we got in much earlier in the day to say this phone call - I mean you never know, some people _like_ to talk to hundreds of thousands of people, (coughs, laughs) you're talking to one of them. I dunno what happened, but somebody picked up and very quietly listened. So it didn't sound like a press secretary.

GR: Listened, and...?

B: I just sang 'I Just called to Say I Love You'. It's actually sometimes better if it's an answering machine. Like Graham Taylor got up out of bed the next morning and he put on his answering machine at home, and he had 70 000 people singing to him. So it's, it's a crank call, it's part panto it's part cabaret -

GR: Whose idea was it?

B: Adam's. Adam had this idea, let's put out some crank calls.

GR: Because anybody who goes to the concert either in Cork or in Dublin will see I suppose in a way what we're talking about, this is a very big event, it's a very complex event -

B: (makes disparaging sound)

GR: It is! Maybe to you now at this stage you've become inured by the complexity; but it is, it's a _huge_ kind of yoke, there's lots of different things to see and to hear and to experience. And I would imagine that you've all played a part in at least endorsing the ideas, the development, possibly even coming up with them from scratch. Do you argue much amongst each other about - "Wait! What? You want him to fly with a big kite above - don't be stupid! I'm not going on stage if he's doing that, that's stupid."

B: Yeah, well y'know we come up with the ideas and Larry tells us not to be stupid. (laughs) That's what it is. No, I mean everyone -

GR: Who's the most fanciful in the band then? Not fanciable -

B: Well, Larry's probably the most fanciable _and_ (unintelligible)... Ah, I dunno...I mean Larry takes the position, "I'm in a rock'n'roll band, I just want to play music, and what is this thing growing up around me?" But at the same time he's very plugged into what's going down and has come up with lots of ideas for Zoo TV. Everybody - it's a sort of Zoo Board, and when I say Zoo Board, there's no boardroom involved, it happens a lot of the times late at night, and there's a lot of drink involved. Sometimes. And our crew, they're involved; Willie Williams is amazing, he's the kind of Zoo TV designer, and Maurice Linnane, people like that come up with ideas. It's just, it's done in a very loose fashion.

GR: Has there ever been any particular thing that for instance _you'd_ have loved to have done but that everyone else thought was just such a ridiculous idea that they couldn't countenance it, has that ever happened?

B: Er, no, an idea being ridiculous (laughs) doesn't preclude it being used.

GR: Alright we're going to take some more music according to my little machine here; it's 'The Wanderer', right? Mr Cash on vocals. How did this happen, by the way?

B: Asked him to sing on it.

GR: How did he react to being asked to sing it?

B: He said "Yes". And you'll hear the results.

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Gerry Ryan: Alright now, I have a call, right? Ah, Carmel, good morning.

Carmel: Good morning Gerry!

GR: Say hello to Bono.

C: Hi Bono, too.

Bono: How're yeh?

C: Not too bad. Um, I'm sitting at home here and I just had to call you when I heard you on the radio. I'm nine-plus months pregnant, and the baby was due -

B: I never met ya!

C: (laughs) No, I know!

GR: This is the call that you wait for!

C: (laughing) I just thought I'd make it public!

B: I don't know the woman!

C: But my husband has tickets to your concert on Friday night, he's your number one fan, and for the last five months he's been at me: "You'd better have this baby before the concert, you'd better have this baby before the concert". Um, I haven't so far, so we'll just see what happens. But my question for you, Bono; if you had to choose between the birth of your child or going to your concert, which would you pick?

B: What's the name of your man again?

C: It's Fintan Buckley.

B: (In American accent) Fintan, go home, son! It's not worth it. Do the right thing, the concert will be over!

C: Well we've been joking that your phone call on Friday night is going to be to me in (Hollows?) Street.

B: (laughs) Don't joke about it! Just leave your number at reception!

C: So he's your number one fan, anyway, he thinks you're great.

GR: And he's not to go, right, he's to stay at home.

C: OK. I'll tell him that. OK, thankyou!

B: See ya, bye!

C: Bye.

GR: Bye, take care, Carmel. Yeah I suppose it is, it's the ultimate phone call isn't it: "Hi, Marjorie here, remember me? Memphis. He looks just like you." (Bono chuckles) But of course that didn't happen, and is never going to happen. Um, getting old, do you worry about getting old?

B: No, I don't actually. I mean first of all -

GR: Well you should.

B: (laughs) - my father, I mean I reckon I'll finally get cool by the time I'm sixty. My old man is a very cool man. Have you met him?

GR: Yes.

B: When he and Edge's father -

GR: Edge's dad's very nice too.

B: - When they come out on the road they are known as the Beastie Boys. He's much more rock'n'roll than I am, actually, and in fact the only time I've gone on stage with a hangover was as a result of my father taking me out - it was the night before we opened the European tour in Paris, we went out, and he was singing opera into my ear at 7 a.m. He actually put me in bed and I think maybe went out again, and I spent the whole concert with my head between my hands, and thinking that if I get to - what is it - sixty-six or whatever; sixty, yeah sixty-six.

GR: I don't know my father's age. How do you know how old your father is? Irish men -

B: That was a guess. I think he's the same age as BB King. Yeah. Sixty-seven now.

GR: Do you remember trying to seek affirmation from your father, I mean did you want him to think that what you were doing was good.

B: Aaah, ah, yeah probably. But you see it's just a very Irish thing, I didn't know until recently that my old man was such a wind up. (laughs) I thought he was serious. I thought he was serious when he'd tell you you should forget life. You know the way you're sixteen and deadly serious and earnest, and he'd say forget life, right? OK. No he's just a wind up. He's a wag.

GR: Has he given you an opinion about what you've been doing for the last two years. Did you ask him?

B: Er, yeah he seems to be into it. Got him into a video, which was quite interesting, he's still complaining about not being paid for it.

GR: Not being paid; which brings me onto Dave Fanning. Dave Fanning's actually on the Zooropa album. This is a complaint which I'm sure he'll give to a certain guitar player quite soon.

B: We have heard that he's been sampled, I think it might be true. But he's not been paid.

GR: Well I am now making a pitch for Fanning to be paid. I insist that a contract is signed before the end of the Zooropa tour, and he must get a penny out of every record.

B: Ooh! That's more than _I'm_ getting.

GR: (laughs) Alright, now, what are you going to do when it's all over, it finishes in Dublin on Saturday, I would imagine that a rest should be very much on the cards. Have you any idea what's ahead of you, are you just going to chill out for two years, do what?

B: (sighs) I was thinking about, y'know, just going into the studio and maybe puttin' a bit of an EP together, see what happens - no I'm joking - (laughs) No, I have no plans, and that's a very good plan, I think.

GR: Well what about the stock things - I'm going to act in a movie, I'm going to direct a movie, I'm going to fly the Atlantic, I mean what...

B: I dunno, I'd really -

GR: Is there any one yoke that you'd love to do?

B: There's plenty of things that I want to do, but they're very ordinary things. I want to spend some time with me kids, and I want to um, there's stuff that I - I've been sort of absent _with_ leave for the last couple of years and I'd like to return the favour.

GR: Now, I'm allowed apparently to announce this, so get your tapes out: we can now announce that the final show of Zooropa, next Saturday at the RDS will be live on 2fm in binaural sound, if you have the correct headphones. At 9 o'clock or thereabouts. .... This show will be the biggest in radio history. That's the truth, isn't it?

B: They always say that, it's important. I think it IS going around the world is it? What does it say at the end...?

GR: Yes, it's the biggest radio broadcast in the world, going over four continents to an audience that could be as large as five hundred million.

B: It's just another day, really.

GR: Good morning and thank you for joining us.

B: Thank you.


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Excelente entrevista!!!!!!

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Lembram as fotos do Bono e o Simon Carmody com as garotas de biquini no Daily Mail?

Pois aqui a verdadeira história das fotos:

U2 - BONO POSTS CANDID BEACH SHOT ON HIS FRIDGE

U2 star BONO has the most potentially embarrassing picture of him posted on his refrigerator at home - as a constant reminder of how wild scandal can be.
A photo of the married rocker and a pal with two scantily-clad teenagers hit publications last year (08), suggesting he was enjoying a little too much fun in the sun on a holiday in St. Tropez, France.
But the scandal-that-never-was quickly died down - when Bono pointed out the incriminating snapshot was doctored to make it look like he and his friend were alone with the bikini-wearing teens.
He tells Spin magazine, "They cropped out the married folks and all the other people who were with us.
"The actual photo is on our fridge."

Spin

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Da matéria que saiu na Hot Press sobre a turnê:

"Apesar da tecnologia envolvida, Bono insiste que a tour U2360° não vai ser coreografada demais. É um show de rock'n'roll, mas nós criamos um palco, que nos permite realmente chegar perto de muitas pessoas. Mas no entanto eu vou ter que estar bastante em forma - Estou fazendo boxe, corrida, flexões, e perseguindo o Larry na rua!"


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Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:Da matéria que saiu na Hot Press sobre a turnê:

"Apesar da tecnologia envolvida, Bono insiste que a tour U2360° não vai ser coreografada demais. É um show de rock'n'roll, mas nós criamos um palco, que nos permite realmente chegar perto de muitas pessoas. Mas no entanto eu vou ter que estar bastante em forma - Estou fazendo boxe, corrida, flexões, e perseguindo o Larry na rua!"


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Imagina soh, o Bonão praticando boxe!!! Malhando e fazendo Flexões?? aiiii :shokk: :hothot:

LuH escreveu:

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:Da matéria que saiu na Hot Press sobre a turnê:

"Apesar da tecnologia envolvida, Bono insiste que a tour U2360° não vai ser coreografada demais. É um show de rock'n'roll, mas nós criamos um palco, que nos permite realmente chegar perto de muitas pessoas. Mas no entanto eu vou ter que estar bastante em forma - Estou fazendo boxe, corrida, flexões, e perseguindo o Larry na rua!"


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Imagina soh, o Bonão praticando boxe!!!

Tipo na Popmart ........ :00: :00: :babão: :morri:

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:

LuH escreveu:

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:Da matéria que saiu na Hot Press sobre a turnê:

"Apesar da tecnologia envolvida, Bono insiste que a tour U2360° não vai ser coreografada demais. É um show de rock'n'roll, mas nós criamos um palco, que nos permite realmente chegar perto de muitas pessoas. Mas no entanto eu vou ter que estar bastante em forma - Estou fazendo boxe, corrida, flexões, e perseguindo o Larry na rua!"


:hothot: :

Imagina soh, o Bonão praticando boxe!!!

Tipo na Popmart ........ :00: :00: :babão: :morri:

Assim estilo de acaemia..malhandooo e suandooo mto!!! nussaaa morri pelos pensamentoss!!!

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:

LuH escreveu:

Andréia Hewson!!! escreveu:Da matéria que saiu na Hot Press sobre a turnê:

"Apesar da tecnologia envolvida, Bono insiste que a tour U2360° não vai ser coreografada demais. É um show de rock'n'roll, mas nós criamos um palco, que nos permite realmente chegar perto de muitas pessoas. Mas no entanto eu vou ter que estar bastante em forma - Estou fazendo boxe, corrida, flexões, e perseguindo o Larry na rua!"


:hothot: :

Imagina soh, o Bonão praticando boxe!!!

Tipo na Popmart ........ :00: :00: :babão: :morri:

Melhor época q existe1!