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Maybe the right place for this thread is PLEBA, but anyways I thought it could be something for general amusement, LOL. Are you curious about which picture they?re talking about?
Q magazine, March 03, 2002
[From Q magazine's special issue, The 100 Greatest Rock 'N Roll Photographs.
The Bono picture comes in at no. 20 on the list.]
20
Bono
Anton Corbijn
New York
12 August 1992
"This is a sort of ironic look at the life of a big pop star," says
photographer Anton Corbijn, "with the jacuzzi, the bottle of champagne, and
a reference to the political environment of the time via George Bush, father
of the current U.S. president, on the TV screen, and the great view over New
York."
Around this time, Bono was clearly coming to terms with the more excessive
aspects of his job. "Rock 'n roll is ridiculous," he told Rolling Stone
magazine. "It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're
wrapping our arms round it and giving it a great big kiss. It's like I say
onstage, Some of this bullshit is pretty cool. I think it is the missing
scene from Spinal Tap - four guys in a police escort, asking themselves,
Should we be enjoying this? The answer is, Fucking right!"
So, when U2's mammoth Zoo TV tour (Outside Broadcast section) lumbered into
America in mid-August 1992 with all 109,000 tickets for the first two nights
in Giants Stadium, New Jersey, selling out in 23 minutes after going on
sale, Bono made time in the afternoon to scrub up among the bubbles for the
benefit of Corbijn's camera. "This was obviously a shot that had to be quite
carefully set up. I tend not to sneak into rock stars' bathrooms. I had
worked with Bono since '82, so I think there was a certain amount of trust
between us. I work very fast and my pictures are not so much about
perfection as about catching a moment."
Given that this is a photograph of a man of extreme wealth and privilege
evidently revelling in his luxurious surroundings, Corbijn acknowledges that
"the difficulty of this sort of shot is that is could easily be taken out of
context." But he is adamant that it's all done in the best possible taste:
"I think people who know Bono will immediately see the irony in it. He
realises he is in a position where he can actually have both worlds, and he
chooses to do great things with it. That's why we love him."
? Q magazine, 2002.
If you've never seen the photo: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID= 28
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Q magazine, March 03, 2002
[From Q magazine's special issue, The 100 Greatest Rock 'N Roll Photographs.
The Bono picture comes in at no. 20 on the list.]
20
Bono
Anton Corbijn
New York
12 August 1992
"This is a sort of ironic look at the life of a big pop star," says
photographer Anton Corbijn, "with the jacuzzi, the bottle of champagne, and
a reference to the political environment of the time via George Bush, father
of the current U.S. president, on the TV screen, and the great view over New
York."
Around this time, Bono was clearly coming to terms with the more excessive
aspects of his job. "Rock 'n roll is ridiculous," he told Rolling Stone
magazine. "It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're
wrapping our arms round it and giving it a great big kiss. It's like I say
onstage, Some of this bullshit is pretty cool. I think it is the missing
scene from Spinal Tap - four guys in a police escort, asking themselves,
Should we be enjoying this? The answer is, Fucking right!"
So, when U2's mammoth Zoo TV tour (Outside Broadcast section) lumbered into
America in mid-August 1992 with all 109,000 tickets for the first two nights
in Giants Stadium, New Jersey, selling out in 23 minutes after going on
sale, Bono made time in the afternoon to scrub up among the bubbles for the
benefit of Corbijn's camera. "This was obviously a shot that had to be quite
carefully set up. I tend not to sneak into rock stars' bathrooms. I had
worked with Bono since '82, so I think there was a certain amount of trust
between us. I work very fast and my pictures are not so much about
perfection as about catching a moment."
Given that this is a photograph of a man of extreme wealth and privilege
evidently revelling in his luxurious surroundings, Corbijn acknowledges that
"the difficulty of this sort of shot is that is could easily be taken out of
context." But he is adamant that it's all done in the best possible taste:
"I think people who know Bono will immediately see the irony in it. He
realises he is in a position where he can actually have both worlds, and he
chooses to do great things with it. That's why we love him."
? Q magazine, 2002.
If you've never seen the photo: http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID= 28
[This message has been edited by follower (edited 03-04-2002).]
