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Newsflash: Bono Doesn't Actually Want To Be President!
Friday July 05, 2002 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
U2
Believe it or not, U2's Bono says he has never entertained the idea of a career in politics.
Hell, why run for office when you're already the primary source of political news for thousands of music lovin' kids across the globe?
Bono recently told Ireland's Hot Press magazine that being a singer is a helluva lot cooler than being a politician. He told the publication that waking up every morning with a song in his head and being able to play it when he goes out keeps him in rock arenas ? not political ones.
Bono's alter-ego is the figure known as the international human rights lobbyist, who fights for such causes as debt relief and AIDS research and funding. There has been speculation that Bono would try to run for the presidential slot in Ireland, but he says no way, there just isn't any comparison between the two jobs.
Apparently, politics just don't "turn him on." He respects politicians and knows the job is hard but says he wouldn't do it on a full-time basis.
Besides, he told Hot Press, he can't deal with the pay cut, nor the relocation to a smaller house that running for president would require.
Bono's fronts a human rights organization that's been in the spotlight in the last year owing to terrorist attacks and G8 meetings getting major headlines. The organization is called DATA, an acronym for Debt, Aid, Trade for Africa. It advocates economic aid, lower export tariffs and money to fight AIDS.
He will likely get more publicity time in over the next while, as his band U2 works on a new album and gets ready to release another "Best of" coming out later this year. According to Bono, U2 are going to be sticking with a more raw, high energy sound on this record, since the band has been practicing in punk-inspired old clubs.
Rock on Bono, there's no shame in releasing a punk record at this point in your career. We're game for anything they do, as long as they never, ever release another techno record. Ever.
?Katie Bailey
Newsflash: Bono Doesn't Actually Want To Be President!
Friday July 05, 2002 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
U2
Believe it or not, U2's Bono says he has never entertained the idea of a career in politics.
Hell, why run for office when you're already the primary source of political news for thousands of music lovin' kids across the globe?
Bono recently told Ireland's Hot Press magazine that being a singer is a helluva lot cooler than being a politician. He told the publication that waking up every morning with a song in his head and being able to play it when he goes out keeps him in rock arenas ? not political ones.
Bono's alter-ego is the figure known as the international human rights lobbyist, who fights for such causes as debt relief and AIDS research and funding. There has been speculation that Bono would try to run for the presidential slot in Ireland, but he says no way, there just isn't any comparison between the two jobs.
Apparently, politics just don't "turn him on." He respects politicians and knows the job is hard but says he wouldn't do it on a full-time basis.
Besides, he told Hot Press, he can't deal with the pay cut, nor the relocation to a smaller house that running for president would require.
Bono's fronts a human rights organization that's been in the spotlight in the last year owing to terrorist attacks and G8 meetings getting major headlines. The organization is called DATA, an acronym for Debt, Aid, Trade for Africa. It advocates economic aid, lower export tariffs and money to fight AIDS.
He will likely get more publicity time in over the next while, as his band U2 works on a new album and gets ready to release another "Best of" coming out later this year. According to Bono, U2 are going to be sticking with a more raw, high energy sound on this record, since the band has been practicing in punk-inspired old clubs.
Rock on Bono, there's no shame in releasing a punk record at this point in your career. We're game for anything they do, as long as they never, ever release another techno record. Ever.
?Katie Bailey
