bonocomet
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Bring on the U2 news stuff... U2
Hopefully this thread will soon be filled with new album news!
(Reuters) - Irish rock star and anti-poverty activist Bono received France's highest cultural award on Tuesday for his contribution to music while being praised for using his fame to battle for humanitarian causes.
The frontman of the rock band U2 was presented with the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Aurelie Filippetti in a ceremony in Paris.
"Beyond notes and beyond words, you committed yourself and dedicated your fame and career to wage some of the greatest wars of our time. Not for charity's sake but in the name of justice," Filippetti said in a statement.
Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, said the award was a huge honour but it belonged to the band.
"I've got the biggest mouth and the loudest voice but the music we make comes from each other," he said in a statement.
Previous recipients of the award that dates back to 1957 include David Bowie, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Bob Dylan, Bruce Willis and Shakira.
Bono, 53, has received a list of awards for his music and campaigning since forming U2 about 37 years ago, including being a nominee several times for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 2005 he was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year and in 2007 he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth.
do you know if the band's back in NYC?
Look at this conversation
https://twitter.com/AidreenWhen/status/358760701986222081
and this tweet
https://twitter.com/BMNYC53/status/358253622301163520
Gee, someone's acting all populair on twitter. Look at me! I know famous people!
Maybe we can keep this a U2 news thread instead of random personal twitter conversations.
I never post here and when I do I get these kind of comments. Makes me remember why I left here.....
Did you mean to quote me? I wasn't commenting on anything you said. I was commenting on all the personal twitter posts getting posted around here as "news".
No I didn't even think about what you posted or that you were last, sorry. I have just seen these Tweets posted all over the place here and it isn't news at all.
We don't know Dallas was with Bono. Because ANYONE can put ANYTHING on twitter. So I kinda agree with Comet, this stuff is not news. It's rumours at most, so to put them in the album thread is fine, but this thread is for news. Like, actual news.
And you're right ARW. I thought the name seemed familiar. It is one of the former teen Plebans, probably around 16 right now. Yeah, fat chance anything she says is true.
Yeah I'd like to only address this topic once more to clarify why I posted what I did before. I just think it feels kind of weird and rude for people to be copying, pasting and analyzing the Twitter posts by people who many Interferencers here know. I know it's been mentioned around before but maybe some people didn't see it. Anyone can post whatever they want here, go ahead, there aren't any rules for that. I guess I just think it's not very nice.