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I hear on CNN that will be just The Edge and Bono
Well,let's watch it tonight
I'm so excited to hear the new song
It says "Bono and The Edge" everywhere. I haven't seen "U2" mentioned anywhere, so I guess it's just the two of them (with Jay and Rihanna, apparently).
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I just saw an ad on tv about it and it only said Bono and The Edge.
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Pics of Bono & Edge performing as backup to Jay-Z during Hope For Haiti. 
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Bono looks great
Bono looks great
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Thanks
Bono looks great
Doesn't he just!
And dare I say it, he's definitely letting his hair grow a little longer! 
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Yeah,and I'm loving that he's keeping his hair like this...can't wait to see how will be his hairstyle on the next legDoesn't he just!
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Shining moments in Haiti telethon
Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Wyclef Jean are among those who bring real artistic achievement to the earthquake relief fundraiser.
Programs like Friday's "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" do not exist to further musical careers, introduce new material or birth fruitful collaborations. Tragedies like last week's seismic disaster necessitate such urgent media efforts, and fundraising is their primary objective. Important information may also be transmitted; perhaps someone's consciousness will be raised. The pleasure, surprise or release that art can offer is merely added value.
That said, several of the major names who came on board for Haiti went beyond the expected heartstring tugs. Many delivered on precisely that front: The evening was full of big ballads and classic laments, from the opening "Prelude To a Kiss" by Alicia Keys to Jennifer Hudson's "Let It Be" and Stevie Wonder's "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
Others did something different. They made song choices or delivered performances that subtly enhanced our understanding of incomprehensible events.
The most newsworthy performance was the debut of "Stranded," a collaboration between Bono and the Edge of U2, and Rihanna and Jay-Z. The song is part atmospheric film-noir pop recalling U2's previous side project, "Passengers," and part menacing rap. Rihanna had the least to do, but Bono let her lead on the choruses.
Before discussing those outstanding musical moments, let's talk about Haiti.
The telethon's producers made sure the island nation remained front and center. The night's spoken interludes generated compassion by focusing on individuals.
At first, viewers may have been intrigued by chance to pledge to such celebrity phone bankers as Julia Roberts and Halle Berry. But when those famous names spoke, they uttered other names -- belonging to Haitians who'd been injured, lost loved ones or simply survived the horrific tremors.
I suspect that Sting, Shakira, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay -- all of whom gave respectable-to-great performances -- would happily be overshadowed by Haiti's survivors. Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban and Kid Rock, collaborating on Bill Withers' "Lean on Me," let the song's simple sentiments speak.
But what will be remembered from this momentous occasion, if anyone looks back on it as an artistic event?
The first stunning turn came from Mary J. Blige. Pouring fervor into Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More," the hip-hop soul queen showed how a standard could be conquered anew. John Legend did something similar with an expansive version of the spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child."
Justin Timberlake, duetting with singer-songwriter Matt Morris, triumphed by reworking Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Playing piano and singing in a hushed voice, he turned the ballad, so often kneaded to death by its interpreters, into a somber kaddish.
Madonna also offered a prayer -- her own "Like a Prayer," perfectly appropriate for the occasion, considering the famous video for the song, which had her embracing an actor depicting the Caribbean saint Martin de Porres.
The most notable performances, though, came from one point seemingly very far away from Haiti, and one very close by. The latter introduced many American viewers to the Haitian-born artist Emeline Michel; her version of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" was plain-spoken and urgent.
And then there was the unexpected pairing of Neil Young and Dave Matthews. Strumming guitars, the pair sang a spectral version of the Hank Williams song "Alone and Forsaken" that forced listeners to acknowledge the depth of pain in Haiti that no amount of charity can heal.
Finally, Wyclef Jean, whose work in his native country is making him pop's face of Haiti, performed the reggae hymn "Rivers of Babylon."
In the middle of the song, he invoked the drums -- dancing to the African polyrhythms that most of the night's music lacked. With that gesture, Jean took everyone back to Haiti, the vibrant Haiti that lived before the earthquake, and which will somehow survive.
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Mary J. Blige, Justin Timberlake, Madonna and Wyclef Jean are among those who bring real artistic achievement to the earthquake relief fundraiser.
Programs like Friday's "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief" do not exist to further musical careers, introduce new material or birth fruitful collaborations. Tragedies like last week's seismic disaster necessitate such urgent media efforts, and fundraising is their primary objective. Important information may also be transmitted; perhaps someone's consciousness will be raised. The pleasure, surprise or release that art can offer is merely added value.
That said, several of the major names who came on board for Haiti went beyond the expected heartstring tugs. Many delivered on precisely that front: The evening was full of big ballads and classic laments, from the opening "Prelude To a Kiss" by Alicia Keys to Jennifer Hudson's "Let It Be" and Stevie Wonder's "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
Others did something different. They made song choices or delivered performances that subtly enhanced our understanding of incomprehensible events.
The most newsworthy performance was the debut of "Stranded," a collaboration between Bono and the Edge of U2, and Rihanna and Jay-Z. The song is part atmospheric film-noir pop recalling U2's previous side project, "Passengers," and part menacing rap. Rihanna had the least to do, but Bono let her lead on the choruses.
Before discussing those outstanding musical moments, let's talk about Haiti.
The telethon's producers made sure the island nation remained front and center. The night's spoken interludes generated compassion by focusing on individuals.
At first, viewers may have been intrigued by chance to pledge to such celebrity phone bankers as Julia Roberts and Halle Berry. But when those famous names spoke, they uttered other names -- belonging to Haitians who'd been injured, lost loved ones or simply survived the horrific tremors.
I suspect that Sting, Shakira, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera, Bruce Springsteen and Coldplay -- all of whom gave respectable-to-great performances -- would happily be overshadowed by Haiti's survivors. Sheryl Crow, Keith Urban and Kid Rock, collaborating on Bill Withers' "Lean on Me," let the song's simple sentiments speak.
But what will be remembered from this momentous occasion, if anyone looks back on it as an artistic event?
The first stunning turn came from Mary J. Blige. Pouring fervor into Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More," the hip-hop soul queen showed how a standard could be conquered anew. John Legend did something similar with an expansive version of the spiritual "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child."
Justin Timberlake, duetting with singer-songwriter Matt Morris, triumphed by reworking Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Playing piano and singing in a hushed voice, he turned the ballad, so often kneaded to death by its interpreters, into a somber kaddish.
Madonna also offered a prayer -- her own "Like a Prayer," perfectly appropriate for the occasion, considering the famous video for the song, which had her embracing an actor depicting the Caribbean saint Martin de Porres.
The most notable performances, though, came from one point seemingly very far away from Haiti, and one very close by. The latter introduced many American viewers to the Haitian-born artist Emeline Michel; her version of Jimmy Cliff's "Many Rivers to Cross" was plain-spoken and urgent.
And then there was the unexpected pairing of Neil Young and Dave Matthews. Strumming guitars, the pair sang a spectral version of the Hank Williams song "Alone and Forsaken" that forced listeners to acknowledge the depth of pain in Haiti that no amount of charity can heal.
Finally, Wyclef Jean, whose work in his native country is making him pop's face of Haiti, performed the reggae hymn "Rivers of Babylon."
In the middle of the song, he invoked the drums -- dancing to the African polyrhythms that most of the night's music lacked. With that gesture, Jean took everyone back to Haiti, the vibrant Haiti that lived before the earthquake, and which will somehow survive.
ann.powers@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
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Rihanna Tells Haitian People: 'We Are Not Going To Leave You Stranded'
'This is really a song for Haiti,' she says of 'Hope for Haiti Now' collaboration with Jay-Z and U2.
By James Montgomery
LONDON — At precisely 10:30 p.m. here in London — two and a half hours before the start of Friday night's (January 22) "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon — Rihanna was finally in the same room as Jay-Z, Bono and The Edge, her three collaborators on "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)," the song they had recorded just three days earlier in studios all around the world.
The four, backed by Jay's cracking live band and a full gospel choir, were about to perform the song together for the first time, in front of a studio of television producers and, really, the entire world. But not a single one of them was nervous. Rather, they saw it as a tremendous opportunity — not just to help the victims of last week's devastating earthquake, but to remind them that they will never be left stranded, not even after the TV cameras leave and the focus of the globe shifts elsewhere.
"I got the call three days ago to be a part of this. Bono and Jay-Z called me up, they wanted me to be a part of it, and, of course, anything that can help Haiti, I want to be a part of," Rihanna told MTV News on Friday night. "This song is really important. Lyrically, Jay-Z gets really, really deep in his verses, more than I've ever heard him get. He gets really real. I know a couple of people he's singing about. We have mutual friends that suffered loss, they lost their family, they lost friends, and it really hits home. So this is really a song for Haiti, letting them know we are not going to leave you stranded; we are going to do every last thing to help you. You are not alone."
Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke — just more proof of how deeply this tragedy has affected her. Like she said earlier in the week on "Oprah," where she performed a haunting version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," she's from the Caribbean nation of Barbados. It's not a stretch to say the footage coming out of Haiti hit her close to home.
"When I first heard about it, I was at home, and I kind of didn't believe it. I was in such shock. An earthquake in Haiti was shocking to begin with. And [one of] that extent; a 7.0, that's huge, that's unheard of," she said. "And being from the Caribbean, I was in shock for a long time. And when I started looking at the pictures, at the footage, seeing that little boy get beaten up for food, seeing people trapped under the rubble, kids not knowing where their parents are, bodies just getting dropped outside of the hospitals, that just made it really real.
"It made me want to do something about it, I wanted to help, because we all have to help," she continued. "And now my role is to encourage more people to help, to join with me to help."
Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now.
iTunes customers can exclusively pre-order the "Hope for Haiti Now" full-performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities, including the Red Cross and Wyclef's Yele Haiti foundation. Performances will also be available for purchase in the days following the event through Amazon's MP3 service and Rhapsody, through distribution provided by INgrooves.
'This is really a song for Haiti,' she says of 'Hope for Haiti Now' collaboration with Jay-Z and U2.
By James Montgomery
LONDON — At precisely 10:30 p.m. here in London — two and a half hours before the start of Friday night's (January 22) "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon — Rihanna was finally in the same room as Jay-Z, Bono and The Edge, her three collaborators on "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)," the song they had recorded just three days earlier in studios all around the world.
The four, backed by Jay's cracking live band and a full gospel choir, were about to perform the song together for the first time, in front of a studio of television producers and, really, the entire world. But not a single one of them was nervous. Rather, they saw it as a tremendous opportunity — not just to help the victims of last week's devastating earthquake, but to remind them that they will never be left stranded, not even after the TV cameras leave and the focus of the globe shifts elsewhere.
"I got the call three days ago to be a part of this. Bono and Jay-Z called me up, they wanted me to be a part of it, and, of course, anything that can help Haiti, I want to be a part of," Rihanna told MTV News on Friday night. "This song is really important. Lyrically, Jay-Z gets really, really deep in his verses, more than I've ever heard him get. He gets really real. I know a couple of people he's singing about. We have mutual friends that suffered loss, they lost their family, they lost friends, and it really hits home. So this is really a song for Haiti, letting them know we are not going to leave you stranded; we are going to do every last thing to help you. You are not alone."
Her voice trembled slightly as she spoke — just more proof of how deeply this tragedy has affected her. Like she said earlier in the week on "Oprah," where she performed a haunting version of Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," she's from the Caribbean nation of Barbados. It's not a stretch to say the footage coming out of Haiti hit her close to home.
"When I first heard about it, I was at home, and I kind of didn't believe it. I was in such shock. An earthquake in Haiti was shocking to begin with. And [one of] that extent; a 7.0, that's huge, that's unheard of," she said. "And being from the Caribbean, I was in shock for a long time. And when I started looking at the pictures, at the footage, seeing that little boy get beaten up for food, seeing people trapped under the rubble, kids not knowing where their parents are, bodies just getting dropped outside of the hospitals, that just made it really real.
"It made me want to do something about it, I wanted to help, because we all have to help," she continued. "And now my role is to encourage more people to help, to join with me to help."
Learn more about what you can do to help with earthquake-relief efforts in Haiti, and for more information, see Think MTV. Visit HopeForHaitiNow.org or call (877) 99-HAITI to make a donation now.
iTunes customers can exclusively pre-order the "Hope for Haiti Now" full-performance album ($7.99) and the full two-hour video telecast ($1.99). Pre-orders will be delivered in the days following the telethon. Individual audio performances will also be available for purchase and download for 99 cents each in the days following the telethon. Apple, the record labels and the artists will donate their share of the proceeds to Haiti relief funds managed by "Hope for Haiti Now" charities, including the Red Cross and Wyclef's Yele Haiti foundation. Performances will also be available for purchase in the days following the event through Amazon's MP3 service and Rhapsody, through distribution provided by INgrooves.
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^^ wow, Rihanna doesn't mention Bono at all. I hope that was just an oversight. And showing up just 2 hrs before they went on air?
Wow, that's cutting it close. Did she have fly in from somewhere at the last minute or someting?
Wow, that's cutting it close. Did she have fly in from somewhere at the last minute or someting?
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^thanks for those articles Laura!!
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I guess she feels more connected to Jay-z. But yeah, could give Edge and bono some more props too.
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Thanks for the news,Lauraaaa
But I hate too that Rihana doesn't mention Bono and Edge
But I hate too that Rihana doesn't mention Bono and Edge
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What are you talking about? Bono and Edge get mentioned all the time in the article posted above.
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^^we were referring to the article that quotes Rihanna specifically and all she says is that JayZ and Bono called her up to be a part of this.
That's all the mention she gave Bono. It could have been selective editing, but she went on to rave about JayZ and said nothing of Bono and Edge.
We are just being protective of our guys.
I don't really care what she thinks, but if Bono wrote that hook in the song, she could have given him a little shout out that's all.
Plus she totally ignored Bono when he tried to show her some love when they were singing... what's up with that? maybe she was nervous. Whatever. Don't want to turn this into a drama party. Forget it..it's over. Nuff said.
I am sure I will get over it.
That's all the mention she gave Bono. It could have been selective editing, but she went on to rave about JayZ and said nothing of Bono and Edge.
We are just being protective of our guys.
I don't really care what she thinks, but if Bono wrote that hook in the song, she could have given him a little shout out that's all.
Plus she totally ignored Bono when he tried to show her some love when they were singing... what's up with that? maybe she was nervous. Whatever. Don't want to turn this into a drama party. Forget it..it's over. Nuff said.
I am sure I will get over it.
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'Hope for Haiti Now' Telethon Raises $57 Million
January 23, 2010 - Retail
By Reuters
The "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday.
They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a disaster relief telethon, and said the figures were still "preliminary" as they exclude donations by corporations and large private donors and sales figures on website iTunes.
Organizers said the "Hope for Haiti Now" album was the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history and was currently No. 1 on iTunes' album chart in 18 countries.
The two-hour telethon featured more than 100 celebrities singing songs, telling tales of loss and survival in Haiti and taking donations by phone. It was broadcast on television networks around the world, online and on mobile carriers.
Singer Alicia Keys kicked off the benefit singing "Prelude to a Kiss." U.S. rapper Jay-Z debuted a song with U2's Bono and The Edge, and R&B artist Beyonce sang her "Halo" with Coldplay's Chris Martin on piano.
Actors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman told stories of Haitians who had survived and heroic tales of rescue efforts.
Proceeds will be split among relief organizations including the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the U.N. World Food Program, Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF and Yele Haiti Foundation.
The January 12, magnitude-7 quake killed up to 200,000 people, Haitian authorities said, and left up to 3 million people hurt or homeless and clamoring for medical assistance, food and water in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.
January 23, 2010 - Retail
By Reuters
The "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday.
They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a disaster relief telethon, and said the figures were still "preliminary" as they exclude donations by corporations and large private donors and sales figures on website iTunes.
Organizers said the "Hope for Haiti Now" album was the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history and was currently No. 1 on iTunes' album chart in 18 countries.
The two-hour telethon featured more than 100 celebrities singing songs, telling tales of loss and survival in Haiti and taking donations by phone. It was broadcast on television networks around the world, online and on mobile carriers.
Singer Alicia Keys kicked off the benefit singing "Prelude to a Kiss." U.S. rapper Jay-Z debuted a song with U2's Bono and The Edge, and R&B artist Beyonce sang her "Halo" with Coldplay's Chris Martin on piano.
Actors including Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington and Nicole Kidman told stories of Haitians who had survived and heroic tales of rescue efforts.
Proceeds will be split among relief organizations including the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the U.N. World Food Program, Oxfam America, the Red Cross, UNICEF and Yele Haiti Foundation.
The January 12, magnitude-7 quake killed up to 200,000 people, Haitian authorities said, and left up to 3 million people hurt or homeless and clamoring for medical assistance, food and water in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country.
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^^we were referring to the article that quotes Rihanna specifically and all she says is that JayZ and Bono called her up to be a part of this.
That's all the mention she gave Bono. It could have been selective editing, but she went on to rave about JayZ and said nothing of Bono and Edge.
We are just being protective of our guys.
I don't really care what she thinks, but if Bono wrote that hook in the song, she could have given him a little shout out that's all.
Plus she totally ignored Bono when he tried to show her some love when they were singing... what's up with that? maybe she was nervous. Whatever. Don't want to turn this into a drama party. Forget it..it's over. Nuff said.
I am sure I will get over it.
I wouldn't over-analyze this stuff.
And I thought there was some nice interaction between Bono and Rihanna when they were performing. I loved the part when he was reaching out to her and she was taking his hand. She doesn't have to look at Bono all the time, she was just concentrating on her part. Plus, Jay-Z was between them most of the time. I guess she was also nervous. Bono is a 30+ year professional on stage, he's a master in multi-tasking, he can flirt with someone, interact and sing at the same time, not everyone is able to do this. Jay-Z also didn't interact with anyone on stage.
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$57 Million ????
Great news,Lauraaaaaa
Great news,Lauraaaaaa
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Is the $57M just from telephone and internet donations? If so, I wonder how much was raised from iTunes album sales.
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No pics in costume yet of the guy playing Bono or the rest of the guys yet I guess?Elann
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I'm so excited, can't wait to see more
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Tomorrow the World Economic Forum in Davos/Switzerland will start again. Several media are saying that Bono will be there again this year.
http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm
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U2 Playing at the Grammys? I can't find anywhere confirming their appearance?
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iTunes' top 10 selling singles and albums of the week ending Jan. 25, 2010:
Singles:
1. "Today Was a Fairytale," Taylor Swift
2. "Tik Tok," Ke$ha
3. "Baby (feat. Ludacris), Justin Bieber
4. "Hey, Soul Sister," Train
5. "BedRock," Young Money, Lloyd
6. "Bad Romance," Lady GaGa
7. "Imma Be," Black Eyed Peas
8. "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) -- Version 1.0," The Edge, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Bono
9. "Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake), Timbaland
10. "Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3)," Ke$ha
Singles:
1. "Today Was a Fairytale," Taylor Swift
2. "Tik Tok," Ke$ha
3. "Baby (feat. Ludacris), Justin Bieber
4. "Hey, Soul Sister," Train
5. "BedRock," Young Money, Lloyd
6. "Bad Romance," Lady GaGa
7. "Imma Be," Black Eyed Peas
8. "Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) -- Version 1.0," The Edge, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Bono
9. "Carry Out (feat. Justin Timberlake), Timbaland
10. "Blah Blah Blah (feat. 3OH!3)," Ke$ha
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