AC/DC singer attacks Bono and Bob Geldof over charity lectures

Times Online ^ | 2/4/2010 | Sophie Tedmanson

[tobyhill]

The singers Bono and Bob Geldof have incurred the wrath of Brian Johnson, a fellow rock star and frontman of AC/DC, over their celebrity activism.

Johnson, the gravel-voiced British singer of Australia’s biggest rock band, has joined a growing group of critics of Geldof and the U2 singer over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private.

“I do it myself, I don’t tell everybody I’m doing it,” Johnson, 62, told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper.

“I don’t tell everybody they should give money – they can’t afford it. When I was a working man I didn’t want to go to a concert for some bastard to talk down to me that I should be thinking of some kid in Africa.”

[SkyPilot]

Johnson, the gravel-voiced British singer of Australia’s biggest rock band, has joined a growing group of critics of Geldof and the U2 singer over their very public charity work, saying they should stop lecturing audiences about charity work and instead do their good deeds in private.

Bravo and Amen!

"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Matthew 6: 1-4

Stars gather to cover `We Are the World' for Haiti

[TSgt]

Go Brian! Hells Bells!

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I think Brian Johnson just shook Bono and Geldof all night long...and the AC/DC frontman is right....and finally someone is saying what many want to say

Wonder when the ultra-liberal rock illuminati start attacking Johnson for his comments....and try to ban AC/DC sales and concerts....

[SkyPilot]

I like this guy even more now.

[waterguard06]

Someone please forward this article to former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, who rushed to “help” in Haiti (with much media fanfare and attention) just to get some positive publicity after he finally confessed to fathering a love-child while cheating on his “dying, cancer-striken” wife.

It is so much better to do little in private than to do much in the spotlight.

[bmwcyle]

AMEN

[tobyhill]

Bono’s free to give all his money away if he wants but I'm frankly tired of him popping up and begging for money every time something happens in the world.

[RC one]

It sounds like he's saying, “quit masking your lack of musical talent with a facade of charity work”.

[catfish1957]

THUNDERSTRUCK!!!!!!!

[freekitty]

Yep, he and Sting are always telling people what to do while pretending to act like they are so enlightened.

[CalvaryJohn]

January 1985, Providence, RI. One of the best, and the most energetic show I’ve ever seen. Angus is insane!

[RadiationRomeo]

Brian Johnson is 62?
That makes me feel old.

[Jackknife]

Way to go Brian !!!

[mtbrandon49]

Bump for Later

[Skooz]

Brian Johnson is 62?

That's the thing that stood out to me. I thought I had misread it at first.

Geez Louise, it seems like only a short time ago, driving my Mustang II with Back in Black blasting from the speakers and not a care in the world (except Donna, but I won't go there).

That was 1980 and I was 20 years-old. Now, he's 62 and I'm ...... never mind.

[sam_paine]

Error 404? Did Bono/Sting have TimesOnline retract?

[Huck]

Rock and Roll!

[RC one]

no, it’s you.

[TADSLOS]

STIFF UPPER LIP BUMP!