hey it's me again
I'd just like to re-tell this story, cos DA MAN's birthday be comin' up. I yoinked it off a different thread I found while searching for... something, I forget. This one, it's got fuzzies galore:
http://forum.interference.com/u2feedback/Forum7/HTML/001806.html
STORY
From the book BONO IN HIS OWN WORDS:
"There was a night in L.A. in the early part of the tour when we had a death threat
that the police were taking very seriously indeed. Someone had sent the gun license
into the U2 offices and they thought he had gotten into the venue. All of a sudden
there were all these people on the stage which I really objected to. I never thought
that sort of thing would bother me and, when I went out, it didn't. I just laughed it
off, like The Blues Brothers - 'We're on a mission from God and we ain't finished
yet.'
The second night came up and the cops came up to us just before we were about to
go on and said they'd made a mistake, He was coming tonight! "Now we get all
kinds of racist jibes because we wrote a song for
Martin Luther King, or pinko jibes because we did the Amnesty International Tour.
Wherever you look we're a target for the loony fringe. So the second night, we're on
stage and I'm singing 'Pride' thinking, 'If someone is going to do it it will be during
this number.'
So I crouched down on the stage, shut my eyes and for a moment the thought of
death crossed my mind. When I looked up I just saw Adam standing over me,
between me and the crowd. It was a good, good moment."
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~ALOTWU!~
"It never ceases to amaze me. Here, we have a man who claims professes to enjoy flower arranging, has no qualms over donning a skirt at any given time and, now we learn, prefers to use the ladies' restroom. And yet somehow he manages to embody all that is masculine and sexy. I don't know how he does it. " ~Hallelujah Here She Comes, about Adam
