Bono hands out copies of REM's new album, gets ignored

[theu2fly]

Umm... what?

From nme.com


U2's Bono tried to become something of an off-season Santa recently, we read.

The singer supposedly attempted to give away copies of REM's 'Collapse Into Now' album to passers by on a New York street corner on Saturday (March 19).

According to the New York Post he had spent the first half of Saturday night celebrating wife Ali Hewson's 50th birthday at the Osteria Morini Italian restaurant.

Guests included former model Helena Christensen, U2's The Edge and REM’s Michael Stipe. Following the nosh Bono decided to head out into the street to see if he could give away copies of REM's latest.

A source is quoted as saying: "He was asking people loitering outside if they wanted a CD. Bono was largely ignored, with some looking at him like he was a crazy person until one girl recognised him and snapped up the disc."

'Collapse Into Now' might not be REM's greatest album but still, we don't think it's quite at street freebie level yet...

 

[purpleoscar]

Is Bono ok?

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

 

[patternshirt170]

"Storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite. Did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?"

uh, clearly no!

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I really hope that's true, because it's hilarious

But it could have been, um, someone else who pretends to be Bono

He should have been giving away Spiderman tickets

 

[A stor]

Seriously, if Bono did this in any large city. People would not believe it was him. They wouldn't expect it. Whether it would be New York or Baltimore the reaction would have been the same.

 

[Galeongirl]

Poor Bono!

 

[gvox]

They probably thought it was whats-his-face and went "nah, not fallin for it asshole"

 

[Dfit00]

He probably did this to please Michael Stripe and his band.

 

[dazzledbylight]

They probably thought it was whats-his-face and went "nah, not fallin for it asshole"

very good!

 

[cobl04]

sounds like something out of At the end of the World.

 

[gvox]

very good!

 

[Dfit00]

You gotta love the priceless picture that NME put up on the article:

 

[corianderstem]

Yeah, if I saw someone making that face trying to give me a CD, I'd run away, too.

 

[TheEdge25]

Before I accepted a CD and a picture, I would ask Bono a question, something only the REAL Bono would know. Like what the first verse of One Tree Hill is.

Wait a minute....

...if the performance in Chile is any indication, even the real Bono would answer that wrong and I would walk away depressed

 

[U2BROTHR]

That's ok.....today Thom Yorke gave away copies of his newspaper, "The Universal Sigh", in London, England....

Radiohead's Thom Yorke hands out 'The Universal Sigh' newspapers in London | News | NME.COM

 

[Dfit00]

Is that the newspaper that comes with the new album?

Luckily, he didn't get ignored.

 

[rivergoat]

Who's Thom Yorke?

 

[Dfit00]

A contemporary of yours.

 

[Rachel D.]

I hope Bono doesn't get any ideas about starting his own newspaper.

 

[U2BROTHR]

Is that the newspaper that comes with the new album?

Luckily, he didn't get ignored.

No.....apparently not the newspaper that comes with the album....

 

[patternshirt170]

newspaper? U2 upgraded to a magazine!

 

[doctorwho]

Before I accepted a CD and a picture, I would ask Bono a question, something only the REAL Bono would know. Like what the first verse of One Tree Hill is.

Wait a minute....

...if the performance in Chile is any indication, even the real Bono would answer that wrong and I would walk away depressed

Now, now... OTH is perhaps my second favorite U2 song and even I forget its lyrics.

Age... it does a body bad.

 

[Galeongirl]

To be fair, he did nail the lyrics to EBTTRT. A song they haven't done since 2001.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

I imagine it would be hard to forget in the short amount of time it takes for him to read it off the teleprompter

 

[doctorwho]

I imagine it would be hard to forget in the short amount of time it takes for him to read it off the teleprompter

Unless he forgot his reading glasses!

 

[gvox]

There's more to those Bulgaris than...

Spoiler

...meets the eye.