Posted on 11/15/2004 7:27:22 AM PST by WestVirginiaRebel
It was meant to be a recreation of one of pop's finest moments, where the cream of the British music scene came together in the name of charity.
Instead it turned into an egofuelled squabble between one of rock's elder statesmen and a flashy would-be pretender.
(Excerpt) Read more at this is london.com ...
Well, at least Bono didn't spend too much time
trying to influence the outcome of the US elections.
MV
Thanks to a change in Paul O'Neill's employment status, Bono can spend more time with his butt-buddy.
Even if he lost everything else, at least Bono would always have his Joan Rivers signature sunglasses collection.
Must be horrible with all those huge liberal egos. Chris Martin etc. All straining to get some airtime and take a shot at Pres. Bush.
So the UN loving liberals are going to help the babies in Africa eh? How are these children supposed to eat with no arms?
I can't follow this link, is the server down?
Bad link?
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You can't just put spaces into URLS, WVR...
I never got the sense that Bono was totally anti-Bush. At the very least, I don't recall him making any Dixie Chick-like statements against the administration.
Insiders said Hawkins did so with aplomb, leaving Bono's contribution to the project, which he had recorded in Ireland, apparently in doubt.
But last night an angry Bono was said to be on his way to the UK to re-record the line, after his management insisted his version had to be included, even if it was only the performance from 1984.
'Bono's people say he definitely has to do that line,' said one insider. 'Justin's version was brilliant, but they are adamant.'
Hawkins said last night: 'I did it and I did it better than him. So, his management kicked up a stink. It obviously means a lot to him. It's a valuable line for him, he needs it, so I think he's going to fly back and try again to beat me.
'If not, they're going to use the original one he did when he was my age.'
It is not the only controversy prompted by the new recording. Sir Paul McCartney, who plays bass guitar on the song, was banned from singing because he was too old,...
Ouch. Too old to sing? And after 20 years, they still don't know it's Christmas?
Nice Pissant...
Your name is quite appropriate...
Both Bush and Bono share the same relgious conviction... That bonds them...
How do they share the same religious convictions ? Bono is a Catholic, is he not ? Do you mean they have the same goals for world peace and to eradicate terrorism, or that they are both fervent believers ?
I knew that Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
were of some serious religious conviction. But
thought that The Edge and Bono had lost some
of theirs, if in fact they had ever held any.
MV
One word: Zoolander...
Bono has done a lot in regards to his humanitarian causes.
He has used his celebrity for the good of a lot of people and though idealistic, by comparison his causes are not all that far out there.
I don't know if you would call it naivete or idealism, but Bono does annoy me with is causes on occasion, but his heart is in the right place.
Furthermore has done a lot more than most celebrities who claim to care about people and back up their complaints with any action. Bono has nothing but good intentions and he attempts to follow through on them.
Furthermore, I have never heard Bono speak ill of this country, nor of the people here, nor of President Bush for that matter.
If any one can provide me with an ad hominum, ad humina attack by him, I would like to read it.
He has a deep love for the US that many native liberals do not and that is evident in the music of U2, particularly from Rattle and Hum and Joshua Tree. He has said that people don't seem to care about the AIDS epidemic in Africa - ok, fine, but we have our own problems, which he fully acknowledges.
It is a shame that Bono is slapped together with the rest of celebrities who "care" when it is time to make a charity album (and get their names in "Time Out London") and are nowhere to be seen a year later. Bono has been there for 20 years.
BTW
U2 is the 3rd best rock n roll band ever behind the Stones and Zepplin.
The darkness is a flash in the pan group of posers in black spandex.
SNIP--
Yesterday only Band Aid founders Sir Bob Geldof and Midge Ure were present from the 1984 line-up as a new generation of pop stars recorded the song at Sir George Martin's studio in Hampstead, North London.
Among them were Will Young, Jamelia, Ms Dynamite, Rachel Stevens, Natasha Bedingfield, the Sugababes, Busted, Katie Melua, Damon Albarn, Lemar, Coldplay's Chris Martin and Travis singer Fran Healy. Robbie Williams and Did had aleardy recorded their lyrics. ---SNIP *Who?*
Adam's an atheist, last I heard. (Of course, last I cared was 1991...) But Bono is the offspring of a Catholic mom and Protestant dad, if I remember correctly. I'm not sure which way he went.
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