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Bono on fame, Eminem and the Teletubbies
By James Warren | Chicago Tribune
Posted December 12, 2002
We know Bono as U2 frontman, AIDS activist and global thinker. But what does he think about his contemporaries and being a star?
ON PERFORMING BEFORE 80,000 SCREAMING, ADORING FANS: "People think about performers that it's, 'Love me, love me, love me!' And they're right! No, you can actually be trying to impress just one person in the crowd; a lover, your father, a guy who bullied you in school."
BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCE AS A KID: "John Lennon. He taught me the value of a song as placard."
PAUL MCCARTNEY: "He writes better tunes and may be the most underrated [Beatle]. Harmonically rich. And it's almost as if he's been elbowed aside, and not taken as seriously, because he's not dead."
EMINEM: "Brilliant lyricist and writer who is in the tradition of [the French poet] Rimbaud and the 15th century murder ballads."
JOHNNY CASH: "Greatest exponent of murder ballads. I think he's wonderful."
FAVORITE TV SHOWS (A TIE): "First, there's Oprah. She is a study as a performer. It's taken me 20 years to lose my self-consciousness. She doesn't seem to have any. . . . Then there's Teletubbies. Psychedelic stuff, with TVs in their bellies. As a person who doesn't trifle with hallucinogens, it's the closest I'll come to Jimi Hendrix."
U2'S IMMEDIATE FUTURE: "We'll get back into the studio soon. We're halfway through a record that will burn down all our good works!"
Copyright ? 2002, Orlando Sentinel
Bono on fame, Eminem and the Teletubbies
By James Warren | Chicago Tribune
Posted December 12, 2002
We know Bono as U2 frontman, AIDS activist and global thinker. But what does he think about his contemporaries and being a star?
ON PERFORMING BEFORE 80,000 SCREAMING, ADORING FANS: "People think about performers that it's, 'Love me, love me, love me!' And they're right! No, you can actually be trying to impress just one person in the crowd; a lover, your father, a guy who bullied you in school."
BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCE AS A KID: "John Lennon. He taught me the value of a song as placard."
PAUL MCCARTNEY: "He writes better tunes and may be the most underrated [Beatle]. Harmonically rich. And it's almost as if he's been elbowed aside, and not taken as seriously, because he's not dead."
EMINEM: "Brilliant lyricist and writer who is in the tradition of [the French poet] Rimbaud and the 15th century murder ballads."
JOHNNY CASH: "Greatest exponent of murder ballads. I think he's wonderful."
FAVORITE TV SHOWS (A TIE): "First, there's Oprah. She is a study as a performer. It's taken me 20 years to lose my self-consciousness. She doesn't seem to have any. . . . Then there's Teletubbies. Psychedelic stuff, with TVs in their bellies. As a person who doesn't trifle with hallucinogens, it's the closest I'll come to Jimi Hendrix."
U2'S IMMEDIATE FUTURE: "We'll get back into the studio soon. We're halfway through a record that will burn down all our good works!"
Copyright ? 2002, Orlando Sentinel
, I wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing.........
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