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"They say, 'Oh, you can't get these [HIV treatment] drugs to the farthest reaches of Africa.' Yet we can get cold fizzy drinks there. You know, let's talk to Coca-Cola about using their infrastructure and their refrigerated trucks."

Bono, 2002

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Question: ‘Why does the world need U2 in 2009?’



Bono: “Well … we have joy. We have rage. We’re unreasonable. We can take a punch. But we can throw one too.”



(Q magazine, Feb. 2009)

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"Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold"
Adam Clayton (in the 90´s)

It seems he´s not the only one who has that idea...The New York Times has reported that

The Male Unbifurcated Garment movement began in the early 1990s, when a cross-dressing Swede named Roger Lewau launched a now-defunct Web site called the Skirts Lover Nest. Over the years, the movement has strived for civil rights in displays of pride that have included a march down Fifth Avenue, where dozens showed up in minis, tutus and full-length crimson ball gowns. Now comes “Dressed to Kilt,” a fashion show hosted by the M.U.G.-wearing Scotsman Sean Connery. The models will include Andie MacDowell, the actress; Marcus Schenkenberg, the supermodel; and Robert Anderson, named in the show’s promotional material as a “Scottish Hunk.” Proceeds will benefit the Friends of Scotland, but M.U.G. men around the world will surely take note.

source: www.nytimes.com

Maybe Adam goes back to wearing his sarongs in public.

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"We have always been ideologues. We were in the back of the bus reading Bibles instead of Playboy when we were 19 or 20."

Bono, 2000

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"Anyone who doesn´t like U2, isn´t trying hard enough."

The Edge in a recent interview.

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"There's obviously been a clear case of instrument envy and Sting and myself have four thick long strings and he's got six girlies ones!" – Adam (to Edge when he made fun of Sting´s nickname in Letterman´s show,Feb 2009)

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"If a U2 show is going askew, as it can, the one song you can rely on to get that room back is 'Where the Streets Have No Name.'" Bono, 2004

Third single of "The Joshua Tree" album m(1987) is a powerful song and it became a staple of live shows. Its inaugural performance 2 April 1987 in Temple, Arizona.

Bono was inspired to write the lyrics by the notion that it's possible to identify a person's religion by the street on which they lived, particularly in Belfast and also their income depending upon the part of the street. The song's signature is Edge´s repeating guitar arpeggio using a delay effect that is played at the beginning and end of the song; Adam´s bass lines are also to be mentioned.

In Rolling Stone (issue 1054), the song was ranked 28th in the list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time."

In a 1987 interview,Bono said of the song:

"Where the Streets Have No Name is more like the U2 of old than any of the other songs on the LP, because it’s a sketch - I was just trying to sketch a location, maybe a spiritual location, maybe a romantic location. I was trying to sketch a feeling. I often feel very claustrophobic in a city, a feeling of wanting to break out of that city and a feeling of wanting to go somewhere where the values of the city and the values of our society don’t hold you down. An interesting story that someone told me once is that in Belfast, by what street someone lives on you can tell not only their religion but tell how much money they’re making - literally by which side of the road they live on, because the further up the hill the more expensive the houses become. You can almost tell what the people are earning by the name of the street they live on and what side of that street they live on. That said something to me, and so I started writing about a place where the streets have no name.

This is one of the most powerful performances at Slane Castle.

The original video was directed by Meiert Avis. The song was performed to playback on the rooftop of the Republic Liquor Store at East 7th Street and South Main Street in Los Angeles on 27 March 1987. The scenes including the police shutting the video down due to traffic concerns are real, although the video was edited and heavily overdubbed to make it appear the band defied the police and kept on filming the video. In reality they stopped performing upon being ordered to do so. In 1988, the music video won a Grammy for "Best Performance Music Video".

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"I'm bored of Bono and I am him - I'm sick of me. I felt it was a little limiting to be in the first person".

Bono on his songwriting in "No Line on the Horizon"

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"I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting"

Bono

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"Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality"

Adam Clayton

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"I didn´t actually like much guitar when I was growing up,I really didn´t .

So I just knew I didn´t want to sound like anyone else." Edge

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"At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action."

Bono

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"We don't want to get shot down for becoming boring. We'd rather go into retirement finishing on a high note and knowing we've left a special legacy." Larry Mullen Junior, 2002.

How can they ever become boring??? I wonder...

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It's not enough to rage against the lie...you've got to replace it with the truth
Bono

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Larry is known to be the quietest of the members of U2 but when he does speak, he says interesting things!!!






"There were no jobs to get. It was like we were all going nowhere, so we decided to go nowhere together and form a band."on the beginnings of U2, 1986.


"Then Bono arrived, and he meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band anyway, as soon as he arrived. I was in charge for the first five minutes, but as soon as Bono got there, I was out of a job."on Bono's persona, April 1987.


"And if I had to spend 20 years in the band just to play that show, and have done that, I think it would have been worthwhile."on the Sarajevo Popmart show as the best ever U2 concert

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Larry is know to be the quietest of themembers of U2 but when he does speak, he says itneresting things!!!

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All the best songs are co-written by God, you know!

Bono

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''It would be wrong for me to say, 'Yes, we can change the world with a song.' But every time I

try writing, that's where I'm at. I'm not stupid. I'm aware of the futility of rock & roll music, but

I'm also aware of its power.''

Bono (frontman, singer and song writer)

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''It would be wrong for me to say, 'Yes, we can change the world with a song.' But every time I



try writing, that's where I'm at. I'm not stupid. I'm aware of the futility of rock & roll music, but



I'm also aware of its power.''



Bono (forntman, singer and song writer)

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"He is a poet, a philosopher and last night I saw him walking on water...."

Mick Jagger on Bono