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How U2 Bono saved me

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Saviour ... U2's Bono goes to rescue Kal at Live Aid


THE girl who Bono famously saved from being crushed at Live Aid has spoken for the first time about her incredible moment ? 20 years on.
Kal Khalique was just 15 when Bono saw she was being overwhelmed by the Wembley crowd. The U2 legend leapt off stage and pulled her free ? then smooched with her as his band played on.

Kal, of Hampstead, North London, said: “The crowd surged and I was suffocating ? then I saw Bono.
“Security helped him pull me out, then he held me and we danced. My heart was pounding.”

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Greatful Kal
 
Gollum, Bono, what's the difference?

That said, I wouldn't be surprised if we do see some sort of a biopic in the mist of Killing Bono, though that's something to muse on for another time.
 
BonoFox1 said:
SERKIS WANTS TO PLAY BONO

Jan 29 2010


LORD OF THE RINGS star ANDY SERKIS has one acting ambition left to fulfil - he wants to play U2 frontman BONO in a biopic of the Irish rocker's life.
Serkis recently delved into the music world with a portrayal of the Blockheads star Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
And he would love to land a role playing another music icon - Bono.
He tells British music magazine NME, "I could do Bono. Someone will have to write the screenplay."
Serkis would also relish the chance to play troubled Pogues singer Shane MACGowan. He adds, "Someone also suggested Shane MACGowan to me, that's not a bad story."


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ANDY SERKIS WANTS BONO ROLEAndy Serkis wants to follow up his portrayal of Blockheads frontman Ian Dury by playing U2 singer Bono.



Andy Serkis wants to play Bono in a film of the U2 rocker's life.

The acclaimed actor - who can bee seen playing late British musician Ian Dury in new film 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll' - would be keen on portraying the Irish rocker on the big screen in a biopic, but only if the right script came along.

He said: "I could do Bono. Someone will have to write the screenplay."

Serkis, 45, would also be interested in playing Pogues singer Shane MacGowan - famous for his alcoholism, dental problems and classic Christmas single 'Fairytale of New York'.

He added: "Someone also suggested Shane MacGowan to me, that's not a bad story."

Serkis' next projects are Steven Spielberg's big screen adaptation of cartoon favourite 'Tintin' and most probably 'The Hobbit' in which he will reprise his role as Gollum - who he portrayed with the aid of computer generated imagery (CGI) in the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.

Serkis revealed to NME magazine: "Nothing's signed and sealed with 'The Hobbit' yet, but it's looking pretty certain - when we were shooting 'Tintin' in New Zealand I spent a day with Guillermo del Toro and we talked about how Gollum was going to be approached. It was fantastic to see where he was going with regards to Middle Earth. 'Tintin' was an extraordinary project to work on."



28 January 2010 05:45:32 AM



*Personally I DON'T see it* *no sex appeal* :shrug:
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I agree! I mean, I'm a huge, and I mean huge fan of the Lord of the Rings movies and Andy bought JRR Tolkien's Gollum to life like no other actor could have but as Bono, no way!! :|
 
No elevation for U2 Tower until 2011


The Sunday Business Post, January 31, 2010
By: Gavin Daly​


The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold for another year. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, saying it will not go ahead until next year at the earliest.

It is the latest setback for the skyscraper project, which had already been put on hold for a year because of the deterioration of the property market and the economy.

The tower was to be developed by Geranger, a consortium made up of U2, Sean Merlyn's Ballymore Properties, property developer Paddy McKillen and architect Norman Foster. The consortium was named preferred bidder for the project in October 2007 and the 130metre tower was originally due to be completed next year.

The consortium is understood to still be interested in the development, but the DDDA has delayed following board discussions late last year. It says it will still consider whether to go ahead with the project if conditions improve.

The DDDA has been at the centre of controversy over a number of developments. It is facing large losses from its involvement in the buy-out of the former Irish Glass Bottle Site in Ringsend for €412 million. That site is now valued at €65 million.

© Post Publications Limited, 2010
 
^ Good. I think that tower is a bad idea. They might as well put a neon sign on it that says, "Here we are, U2 haters! Blow up this building!" :tsk:

Of course, I always have to think of the worst thing that could happen. :rolleyes:
 
Gaga, Bono Joining "We Are World" Remake

Just as George Clooney used the Golden Globes as recruiting grounds for his Haiti telethon, Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones did the same with Grammys for their "We Are the World" remake.
The veterans of the original 1985 charity single spent the festivities stocking up on music stars to perform on the new rendition, to be recorded Monday in Los Angeles.
Bono and Lady Gaga are among the latest on board for the Haiti-helping tune, joining the likes of Usher, Jason Mraz, Akon, Jennifer Hudson, Carlos Santana, Enrique Iglesias and Toni Braxton. There could be as many as 100 singers on the new rendition. "It's like the biggest honor in life to get a call from our father in music, Quincy Jones," RedOne, who will help produce, told E! News backstage.
Tonight's Grammys also featured a special Mary J. Blige-Andrea Bocelli duet of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The song will be available for download on iTunes with proceeds going to earthquake relief.
 
My Life Changed Forever the Night that Bono Kissed Me

Monday, February, 1, 2010



Hmmm…well, that statement might be a tiny bit misleading but it is certainly not a lie. My life did change forever the night that Bono kissed me. But his kiss was not the reason why. In fact I suppose it would be true to say that Bono kissed me because of the reason my life changed forever.

This is my February love story…

When Dave and I had been together for about 4 years I was ready to get married. No, scratch that, I was desperate to get married. Well, not to get married, but to marry him. I. Wanted. To. Marry. Him.

A year and a half into our relationship Dave was promoted and moved to New York. We carried on our relationship long distance for a year. He asked me to move to New York with him without any promise of a future and I did because I missed him so badly. In less than six months we were back in California because of a new and better job. We went house hunting. He bought the house that I chose and we lived in it together, again without promise of a future of anything beyond that. After a year of playing house I was ready for a ring.

I’d had some false hope… I was convinced he was going to ask me on a trip to his hometown of Chicago for homecoming weekend. He didn’t. I was equally disappointed on a romantic vacation in Hawaii when my fantasy proposal at a restaurant on a sunset beach never materialized. If I remember correctly both of these disappointments led to me crying like a crazy person in the middle of a restaurant when my dream moment did not happen. It's amazing he didn't run away from me as fast as he could without ever looking back.

So when he asked me to get a few days off of work so we could go to San Francisco over the 4th of July holiday I knew he was going to ask. He hated San Francisco but I loved it. Why else would he want to go there if not to propose?

But here’s the thing about Dave… he loves surprises. Once he told me we were going to Napa for wine tasting, which we did, but only after going to see Paul McCartney in Berkley. When he was living in New York and I was still in California I took a couple days off work because he was coming to LA and had planned a trip to the Sequoias for us. The day before he was supposed to arrive I received a FedEx envelope with a ticket to Chicago where we met for a romantic weekend. (That was the weekend he asked me to move to New York which is why I was convinced a year later when we went back he was going to ask me to be his wife.)

So three days before we were supposed to leave for San Francisco when he said to me, “How would you like it if instead of going to San Francisco, we went to Paris and Italy instead?” I excitedly answered “What!?”

Dave worked at Island Records – U2’s record label. He explained to me that he had arranged a business trip with some radio programmers and trade magazine writers to go to Paris to see a new band called Quicksand to generate some publicity and airplay for them. Then as a special bonus we were all going on to Verona to see U2.

I was thrilled… and crushed. There would obviously be no proposal on a business trip.

The trip was a whirlwind. We were only in Europe for 5 days. We took the redeye and arrived in Paris the following afternoon. Dave played tour guide to a group of 15 in a city he had never been to. Paris was a day and a half of sightseeing, big group dinner, followed by another day of sightseeing, big group dinner, concert and very little sleep. The next morning all 15 of us got up, walked to a bus stop, boarded a bus that took us to the airport, flew to Milan, took 4 cabs to the train station, took a train to Verona and then took more cabs to our hotel. We were exhausted but Dave had to leave immediately to go to the venue where U2 was playing to set up our ticket and pass situation.

When we arrived at the stadium we met Dave and he told us we would be watching the show from the sound board. The sound board was huge – kind of like a mini stage in the middle of the floor area. Coincidentally there were also many people not only from the management company, but other industry bigwigs as well. Tom Freston, the president of MTV; Carter Alan the Boston DJ who is credited as being the first DJ in the US to play U2; Bill Flanagan from Musician Magazine who was writing a book about the tour were all on the soundboard with us. Pearl Jam was the opening band. Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington were there. I may not have been getting engaged, but this little girl from Reseda was surely living the rock and roll dream.

(For those of you unfamiliar with Reseda please re-watch The Karate Kid where Ralph Macchio’s character is looked down upon by Elizabeth Shue’s parents and called “that boy from Reseda.” That pretty much sums up Reseda, where I am actually pretty proud to be from.)

But let’s go back to that soundboard in Verona, Italy…

The show was amazing. I’d seen the band perform a couple of times on this tour before, but never like this – in Italy, amongst the powerful and famous with a laminated backstage pass hanging around my neck. When the first part of the show was over and the band changed for their encore they would entertain their audience with videos recorded by audience members in a video confessional booth before the show. The best videos would be edited during the concert and blasted on the big screen. Again, I’d seen this before and was explaining what it was to the radio programmer next to me because the people on the screen were talking in Italian and we had no idea what they were saying. And then the third person on the screen was Dave. And. I. Just. Knew…

“Charlene, we’ve come over 5,000 miles and we’ve been on planes, trains, and automobiles to get here, and what I want to know is…will you marry me.”

I wasn’t even standing next to him. I crossed the soundboard, threw my arms around him, and said yes.

Under the guise of generating an awareness of a new band and being looked upon favorably by taking a bunch of programmers and writers to see the most famous band in the world, the real purpose of this trip was an incredibly large romantic gesture just for me.

After the concert we were all put on a bus that took us back to U2’s hotel. There was a private party for the band by pool area with a generous buffet and free flowing wine. Naomi Campbell was engaged to Adam Clayton at the time and we chatted with them for a while. One of the guys in our group had snuck his camera into the concert and we all posed for a photo with the Edge. Immediately after that shot his camera battery died. (This was over 16 years ago – before tiny digital cameras and camera cell phones.) Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington and some of their gorgeous model friends played ping pong in flimsy summer dresses. (Picture every male head on that patio going back and forth, back and forth with the ball from model to model.) I met Bono who congratulated me on my engagement and kissed me right on the lips. I am not exaggerating when I say that I think I drank 12 glasses of red wine and did not feel one tiny bit drunk (nor did I wake up with a hangover). It was without a doubt the happiest day of my life.

Two days later when we flew home Dave bought me a Gucci watch I had been coveting for a long time in the duty free shop. I joked with him on the plane that I didn’t know what was the best part of the trip – the designer watch, the kiss from Bono, or getting engaged. Sixteen years later the watch sits in a box; it’s no longer my style. The taste of Bono’s kiss (which yes, okay was really only just a peck) has long been washed away from my lips. But my love for Dave, my husband of 16 years next month, has only grown stronger. So I guess we all know the answer about what was best. (Definitely the kiss from Bono – right!?)
 
Lady Gaga, Bono Join 'We Are The World' Remake
Organizers Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones reportedly recruited big-name participants at the Grammys.


Feb 1 2010



Lady Gaga and Bono will reportedly join the galaxy of stars coming together to record a remake of "We Are the World" on Monday (February 1). They will join Usher, Jason Mraz, Akon, Jennifer Hudson, Carlos Santana, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and other undisclosed artists.
Lionel Richie, who co-wrote the charity single with Michael Jackson, is working with Quincy Jones (the song's original producer) to organize the 25th anniversary remake to benefit Haiti relief. According to E! Online, **Richie and Jones recruited Bono and Gaga at the Grammys on Sunday night.** Frequent Gaga collaborator RedOne will help produce the track, which is said to include more than 100 participants.

"It's like the biggest honor in life to get a call from our father in music, Quincy Jones," he told E!.

Trey Songz told MTV News at the Grammy Awards that Stevie Wonder got him involved in the project, following their appearance together at the BET Honors last month. Songz could barely describe how honored he was to be a part of this new project.

"Oh, man, it's ... I don't even know if I can find a word for what that is," he said. "[It's] one of the biggest songs in history. Man, the list [of performers] is crazy. I couldn't even begin to tell you. I got it in my phone."

The original "We Are the World," recorded in 1985, brought together artists like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner and Cyndi Lauper to aid famine victims in Africa.



**If Quincy Jones recruited Gaga and "Bono" at the Grammys was Bono "AT" the Grammys??? :scratch:
 
wait...was that your story BonoFox1?!! and is it real!!! whoever's story this is, is an EXTREMELY LUCKY lady!!!!!!!!!!!! what an awesome story, I can't believe she got a kiss from Bono!! I would've gone crazy over that, not "Dave"!! :lol::lol: :D
 
^ lol me and my sister have a plan to go to Ireland when we're a little bit older, then meet Bono!! :D
 
U2, "Songs of Ascent" (Island/Interscope/IGA)

Release Date: tentatively June 2010

Manager Paul McGuinnes told the Irish Independent that "Bono is always an optimist, but he seems confident of getting a new record out by the end of the next six months."

As for the sunglasses-clad frontman, he told the paper, "We are working away and we have a couple of yearlings in the stables that could really turn out to be thoroughbreds in the future. As a band you are always trying to work on new material and we had some unfinished material from the last album."

There have also been reports of the band spending time in the studio in New York and France. As far as tracks go, the Edge told Rolling Stone that "Kingdom of Your Love"-the U2 360 tour intro song-is a "potential 'Songs of Ascent' track." Bono also described the album as "an intimate affair."
 
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