Today John Lennon would have been 68!

To commemorate his lifelong message of peace and love, his widow and longtime creative partner Yoko Ono is exhibiting COME TOGETHER: A LOOK INTO JOHN LENNON’S LIFE THROUGH HIS ARTWORK, an internationally acclaimed, ever-changing exhibit of Lennon’s characteristic drawings, at the Open House Gallery ,New York. The exhibit will benefit City-Meals-On-Wheels, which funds 85 community-based agencies that bring weekend, holiday and emergency meals to homebound elderly New Yorkers who can no longer shop or cook for themselves (100% of all public donations go to the preparation and delivery of meals). Produced by Legacy Fine Art Productions, Come Together is the largest collection of Lennon’s works ever assembled and an exhibit that has travelled across the country and around the world for 15 years.

The exhibit features hand-signed pieces and limited edition prints, as well as serigraphs, lithographs, copper etchings and aqua tints, all of which are available for sale. Lennon’s inspiring and emotional sketches are also in the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the John Lennon Museum in Japan. For further information on Come Together go to http://www.johnlennonartwork.com/.

source: http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com

Having fun with U2 (part 3)

What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't walk around Dublin thinking he is Bono.

What kind of lawyers praise U2? Pro Bono lawyers.

Q: What's the best thing about you?

BONO: My nose.

ADAM: The way I might look at you.

LARRY: My dog.

EDGE: I don't snore.

Q:And what's the worst thing about you?

BONO: My nose.

LARRY: I'm black and white.

EDGE: I'm so single-minded on some things that I find it hard to keep other things together. When I'm really concentrating on an album or tour or something, a lot of other things in my life get shelved.

ADAM: I'm very bad in the mornings, grumpy. I don't say very much.

Q:: And how long does it take you to come to?

ADAM: About a litre of coffee and two hours.

If you were an animal, which animal would you be?

ADAM: A giraffe. Why? 'Cos then you'd meet other giraffes.

EDGE: One of the big cats, so I could just s-t-r-e-t-c-h out in the sun, a panther or a cheetah.

BONO: A wildebeest. You'd have to have a sense of humour with a name like that.

LARRY: Aaah! A fly. Because Bono wrote about a fly and what's good enough for Bono is good enough for me.

"If you are really good friends with The Edge, you can just call him The"- Adam

WHILE BONO IS BEING BUSY IN NEW YORK WHAT ARE THE REST DOING??

Well, The Edge participated in the movie/documentary "It Might Get Loud" and now he explains how his guitar sounds in a BBC programme called "The Story of the Guitar".

The Edge introduces his iconic guitar, the Gibson Explorer he has had with him most of his career, and explains how the band craft songs from the sounds he finds.

In the second video he tells us how his guitars sound differently in songs like "Mysterious Ways" and "The Fly" and explains a bit how the U2 characteristic sound may be born.He also
introduces the rack of instruments used in an average U2 gig; 21 in only one gig!!!! He also confesses he prefers "oldies" rather than new guitars (many of his guitars belong to the late 50´s or early 60´s to the 70's)

source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/musictv/guitars/video/edge/2/

BONO COLLECTS AWARD FOR RONNIE DREW

Bono collected an honour in New York on Friday 3rd Oct - on behalf of RONNIE DREW, the late lead singer of Irish folk band THE DUBLINERS. Drew - who died in August at the age of 73 - is posthumously being handed the Spirit of Ireland Award by the Irish Arts Center in Manhattan.

Bono once said of Drew, "Ronnie is like the King of Ireland and we are his subjects."

Bono and Edge wrote "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" with Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead) and Simon Carmody.The ballad is a tribute to Ronnie Drew , former singer of the Irish folk band, The Dubliners .All the revenues from the sales went to the “Irish Cancer Society”. The song is a beautiful ballad that started as song that Ronnie would sing and ended as a tribute to his figure.

Bob Geldof, Damien Dempsey, Gavin Friday, Sinead O'Connor, Paul Brady, Paddy Casey, Mick Pyro, Mundy, Chris de Burgh, Ronan Keating, Eleanor Shanley, Mary Coughlan, Christy Moore, Andrea Corr, Shane McGowan, Jerry Fish, The Dubliners ,The Chieftains participated in that show.

source:contacmusic.com

Random U2 Quote

"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

What a week,Bono!!!

Bono is said to be one of the most oversheduled men in the planet...well, the last few days he has given enough evidence to confirm so!!!

4 days ago: Bono explains the significance of his

gift after he presented Japanese Prime

Minister Taro Aso with a red I-Pod Nano during a private meeting at the United Nations, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. The red I-Pod is part of the red campaign to fight AIDS globally.

4 days ago: Bono outside the United Nations for the"In My Name" campaign organized for

Oxfam, Comic Relief and Save the Children

for the global call against poverty in New York

on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.

5days ago: Musicians Youssou N'Dour, of Senegal and Bono listen to speakers at the United Nations 2008 Millennium Development Goals Malaria Summit in New York, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.

5 days ago: U2 lead singer and ONE campaign co-founder, Bono,

speaks as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon looks on at

The Four Seasons Restaurant in New York September 24, 2008.

The two were featured speakers at a reception hosted by nine

organizations including Millennium Promise and the United Nations

Foundation marking the half way point for the Millennium Development Goals.

5 days ago: Bono speaks with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the launch of the Irish hunger commission report at UN headquarters.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore (R) leans in to speak with Bono during the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York, September 24, 2008. Established by former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 2005, the event is designed to bring donors together with people in need to try to solve global problems.

Interview for CNN...September 26th

Luckily the meeting with presidential candidate McCain and Palin were put off due to schedule!!!

Come on ,B-man! You have exhausted us all just to see you and look at the pics!!! Relax, and take it easy! We still need you in one piece for the release of the upcoming album!!!

source:http://www.daylife.com/

"Sara Palin" and the King of Ireland

Hillarious American TV program, Saturday Night Live,pulls the candidate´s legs and introduces us to the new sovereign of Ireland!!!