U2 reveal new album plans
07 Jun 2006
Bono has revealed that U2 are planning to start work on a new album.
The follow-up to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, is likely to be
released in summer 2007
I've got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons,
he says. My kid's piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the
piano. And every time she gives me a lesson, I write a new song!
Being back in U2 mode means that he'll be putting his extracurricular
activities on hold for a while.
I'd like to thin my schedule in terms of the politics and activism
and just get lost in the music again. That's what I'm really looking
forward to for the summer.
Meanwhile, Bono has been slammed by Irish Jesuit Quarterly magazine
for claiming that the Catholic Church has damaged the country.
Addressing February's National Prayer Breakfast in the White House,
he said: I've avoided religious people most of my life. Maybe it had
something to do with having a father who was Protestant and a mother
who was Catholic in a country where the line between the two was,
quite literally, a battle line. Where the line between church and
state was well, a little blurry, and hard to see. Seeing what
religious people, in the name of God, did to my land
Bono is wrong, states Father Fergus ODonoghue, a Jesuit historian.
Irish civilisation is profoundly Christian, which means that
Christian belief has been formative in every aspect of Irish
political, economic and social development.
The Hot Press Newsdesk
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