Keocmb
Refugee
This thread reminds me of an article I saw in The Sunday Times (a British newspaper) on the 14th. I thought it would be interesting to you guys, so I typed it up.
Coldplay Crusader Tries On Bono Halo
Peter Conradi
He has shaken hands with George W. Bush and the Pope and rarely misses a chance to preach about the need to write off Third World debt. But Bono, the campaigning face of U2, the Irish rock band, is facing competition from an upstart young rival: Coldplay?s Chris Martin.
Not content with a pair of number one albums and a high profile romance with Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin, 26, now also appears to be trying to assume the saintly mantle of Bono, 43, and Bob Geldof, 51.
A trip with Oxfam in February last year to Haiti appears to have converted him to the charity?s campaign for ?fair trade.? During the visit, Martin came face to face with rice growers being driven out of business by American imports.
?I felt like a fourth-rate Bono,? he declared. ?Later on I felt like a third-rate Bono, and hopefully I?ll escalate until I feel like a full-on Bono.?
Dan Cairns, who did one of the first interviews with Martin for The Sunday Times in 2000, said: ?He sees the band as the next U2 and anything that fits in with the Bono brand, not just in terms of the music but also in terms of evangelizing and moral crusades.?
Coldplay Crusader Tries On Bono Halo
Peter Conradi
He has shaken hands with George W. Bush and the Pope and rarely misses a chance to preach about the need to write off Third World debt. But Bono, the campaigning face of U2, the Irish rock band, is facing competition from an upstart young rival: Coldplay?s Chris Martin.
Not content with a pair of number one albums and a high profile romance with Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin, 26, now also appears to be trying to assume the saintly mantle of Bono, 43, and Bob Geldof, 51.
A trip with Oxfam in February last year to Haiti appears to have converted him to the charity?s campaign for ?fair trade.? During the visit, Martin came face to face with rice growers being driven out of business by American imports.
?I felt like a fourth-rate Bono,? he declared. ?Later on I felt like a third-rate Bono, and hopefully I?ll escalate until I feel like a full-on Bono.?
Dan Cairns, who did one of the first interviews with Martin for The Sunday Times in 2000, said: ?He sees the band as the next U2 and anything that fits in with the Bono brand, not just in terms of the music but also in terms of evangelizing and moral crusades.?