Did he fool U2? Double takes all over for Bono lookalike
By Laurel J. Sweet
Monday, March 12, 2007 - Updated: 12:32 AM EST
Don’t hate Pavel Sfera because he’s beautiful.
Blessed with the luck of the Irish, this 41-year-old native of Yugoslavia, a professional dead ringer for U2 bleeding heart Bono, twisted the Hub into a four-leaf clover this weekend. Replete with blue eyes behind strawberry sunglasses, Sfera kicked back in the Dublin band’s adopted home after playing a private party and wound up treated “Even Better Than the Real Thing.”
“I don’t walk around with the thought, ‘I’m Bono, I’m Bono.’ I just have this genetic thing going on,” Sfera opined over hash browns yesterday at Lincoln’s Landing in Swampscott, where he graciously endured being mobbed by besotted Bono fans before his coffee had been refilled.
One woman apologized, telling Sfera she couldn’t stop shaking.
“I have a lot of fun with this because people love the man. It’s a cottage industry of silliness,” said Sfera, a Chicago musician with the chops to challenge his more famous likeness. “I get hugged every day by men and women alike. Every day. And I’m really humbled by it.”
He proved so convincing the Herald’s Inside Track was flooded with Bono sightings, leading to a report in Saturday’s paper.
Sfera, one of 11 children who moved to America when he was 3, may be a Bono knockoff, but with looks like these and a gift for the Gaelic gab, he doesn’t come cheap. He gets $1,000 up front. All travel and living expenses are extra.
But if you ask nice, as we did while tooling around Chinatown yesterday in a white BMW, he’ll run into a parking garage for the acoustics and burst into opera.
Fluent in multiple languages, Sfera makes a point of paying attention to the wallflowers who flock around him because, “I know what it’s like to be pushed aside for the shinier coin.”
Unlike most rock-and-roll gods, dressing as Bono is easy. “I have 10 black V-neck T-shirts, four pairs of black jeans and 20 pairs of black socks,” Sfera said, laughing.
“The great thing about my gig is (Bono’s) a little scruffy. He’s been known to take commerical flights in coach, doesn’t travel with an entourage. I get away with walking around doing nothing because it’s so possible that it’s really him.”
Sfera and Bono have never come face to face, though, as the two men share the same passion for politics and the arts, he says, “I’d like to meet him just to talk shop.”
Asked what Bono’s harshest criticism of his imitation would likely be, Sfera laughed. “He’d probably say, ‘I don’t wear those earrings.’ ”
not to be mean or anything,but this guy looks NOWHERE like Bono!
and for the millionth time, Bono has short hair... 
