New album talk - Album coming SOON to a galaxy near you!!!

[Von Schloopen]

You guys are young.

Once you're over 40, 5 years feels like 20 minutes.

And this is the best time to wait for a U2 record to come out, cause they have so many other records to listen to while you're waiting. In '90 we only had 6 in the back catalog. Now they've got 12 and a ton of easily accessible non-album tracks.

 

[kingofsorrow]

i expect to be 40 when the album comes out

 

[LadySpinHead]

Ugh, just saw Letterman. "It has to be great, so we'll wait."
Settle in kids- gonna be a long year.

 

[ChargedVT]

So what was said exactly? I'm guessing nothing of interest

 

[Von Schloopen]

So what was said exactly? I'm guessing nothing of interest

He talked about brown people.

 

[popacrobat]

uh, those are typical bono-isms he spewed off.

 

[LadySpinHead]

Dave asked if there would be a new album, and if so, if he could help. Bono said they needed all the help they could get.

"No one needs a new U2 album, it has to be great, not just good, have to wait for God to walk in the room..." Same old stuff.

 

[ChargedVT]

He talked about brown people.

Yeah that was a given! I meant in regards to the album. More vague comments that lead to a belief of it not being released soon?

 

[Shawn Bonneau]

I think Bono just killed this thread on Letterman.

 

[Von Schloopen]

He wasted a perfectly good promo opportunity. He could've talked about U2's new record, vast back catalog, and how it's all for sale on iTunes and your local good record shoppe. But no, he went on and on about the brown people who have AIDS and no food (remember, he's only doing all this humanitarian stuff to push U2 records.)

Bono has kinda lost the plot.

 

[Bug]

Bono is so reliable. Like Old Faithful. Or Punxsutawney Phil.

 

[chork]

It's totally coming out on Tuesday

























14 November 2018

 

[chork]

Word. I think the odds of Bono topping this day's thread for entertainment value on Letterman tonight are long.

For the record, I'd still think your internet persona is hysterical even if you were really a New Jersey trucker.

But I seriously am a piss-taking dwarf with an insatiable penchant for aging pudgy Hibernian rock stars.

Also,

 

[allbecauseofu2]

watchable but worthless interview. Albums no where near done. now Im thinking outside chance early 2015. he had nothing on the album question He stunk on that subject. just stunk the place out. wheres the Madonna interference message board? so I can officially promote her to the spot u2 held before in my music world. She doesn't wait for god to come in the room.

 

[ChargedVT]

At this stage I don't even care how good/great it is, just release it. There's no chance of it being terrible.

 

[kingofsorrow]

 

[Super Yo]

Bono of U2 on the Late Show with David Letterman (September 26, 2013) (Full Interview HD) - YouTube

 

[last unicorn]

Just got up to watch it before I go to work. It was totally clear that Bono would talk about the campaigns and NOT the album so I'm neither surprised nor disappointed. It was a good interview. About the album, he did and said what I had expected him to do and say. His comments are worth nothing when it comes to speculating about the release date. So don't bother, just go on speculating.

 

[Niceman]

Next step: calling for a bomb alert to evacuate the building when they're there...

Satan loves a bomb scare.

 

[kingofsorrow]

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to every I hope forwarded causing embarrassment to OJ
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won the Rose Bowl and he was a junior defeated bob greasy and produ
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the Boilermakers and then the next year loss to Ohio State a and have the
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but never won the Super Bowl that's what I was thinking
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what course one
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our first guest is a a a rock n roll icon humanitarian activist he is a
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cofounder
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up the organization's one and red
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whose efforts have generated listen to this nearly a quarter billion dollars
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a quarter of a million dollars in the fight against
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came an extreme poverty
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and Africa let him in please welcome bono
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we do me a favor you've done many many nice things for mean for the show and
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for the world
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not only the world at large but the music for the world
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i'd like a little favor from you if Jim Nabors decides to stop singing
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back home again in Indiana at the Indianapolis 500 would you step in and
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sing
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for us yes thank you very much done
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everybody needs good neighbors you know who is a
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here couple nights ago was share part she's a wonderful woman
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very nice store in a Vienna quite talented and I know that you
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love under a few new but you met Herve husband
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sunny years and years and years ago remember that encounter
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I didn't mean ones I wasn't aware at the time that I was meeting my was in an
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elevator
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in now
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my name is Pam spring/summer like that and there was a nice lady in the in the
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elevator and
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and there was a nice man in the elevator and fun than nice man with a mustache
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got a house
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just as the doors were closing he just turned he said
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by the way its bono not by now and
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and doors closed and I was like who is this for pretty good
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yeah and then the only the
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and the old lady three delays and how are you yeah
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jus fair a new year this is a busy time love year for you
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wow what are you doing are you guys is there another album were you not doing
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another album
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a and if you are can I help you we need all the help we can get
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we look we have a deal with our audience
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me they you know they give us a great life but
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they expect us to be great and
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and that's tricky because you know as you get better
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you get very good and very good is kinda
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the enemy 0 grades you can mistake it
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four greats and people don't get excited about
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you know I was being very good who needs a new you two albums loathsome out there
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we have to make greats you to our and they don't care waiting
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as long as its rate now
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from Quincy
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quick Quincy Jones you know I was just is just such an extraordinary man
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he says to me by get away from God two walks in the room
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and I said Q but wise cut so unreliable
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anything a hit in the music too but he says just to teach you to wait
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teacher to its awaiting for good got
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what expectations you set for yourself yeah but we're not laboring under that
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burden here
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I love you invented this format people should be reminded that now and again
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the NBA's well that's very sweet now the other thing
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up this this the spider-man
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show has gone on to be crazy hasn't
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identifies means people are going to see it ending success never been
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more successful than I can remember in the the opening days when it was in in
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the
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previews and the people were getting her tender the audience was standing up and
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screaming and they shut it down and it looked like
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well this is not gonna work well it turns out its work better than anybody
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you know everything
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if you go to new york people go to cease biomass a great story it's a bag
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what makes him and extorted character is is
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is not his fighter fires it's just the way he sees the world than
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it's just a great character from Queens Peter Parker
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B&Bs yeah and I love
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you know people from Queens actually and with red hair
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Irish cops the center
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the Ramones um me I go on but
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it's turned out really grates and look people there are accidents is one of the
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things that you don't hear back but in this
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corner of the world will be all right now broadway its kinda
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you know it's it's dangerous yeah but if there is an accident spider-man it's
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world news
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president ever but it did during all that in the beginning did you just think
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yourself
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all have in Swat what have we gotten into here and now you can look back on
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and say well you don't turn your back on inspiration
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you know we just want to learn edging myself you know the Beatles were great
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students a rogers & Hammerstein all those and you wonder about those people
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sounds
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how to the right then those extraordinary chord progressions will
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they learn to lock
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for musical theater and you know we have to
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girl let's talk about the above organizations but one
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and a red and a benefiting to a pub poverty and people stricken with aids in
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the
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on the continent of Africa of world walls his are things as dire
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as the were 10 years ago or are they about the same for the better no no
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known
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and you know this is really and thanks for us me to drop by ads is so great
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I'm dropping by cuz I'm telling everybody this is
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it's great to be the bearer of some good news in amongst the bad news
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but I don't know if you know this and
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I don't think the american people know this but recent
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on
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figures just released there are just under 10
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million people on anti-retroviral drugs they're $10 million people alive
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because american taxpayers and it's something to really peaks
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incredibly proud of
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I any it's it's not just something to say on this earth
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on your show its its these are 10 million
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sentient souls are they've kids they've cousins they
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exist I've met them you know I was in a
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couple weeks ago in gone I met a nurse who
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are you know I'd met twelve years ago when she was just
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diagnosing HIV-aids button knowing she could never treat
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that's a strange thing for health worker so just I would you seek use of people
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just getting up to get a death sentence
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that is not happening anymore your country
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has done an extraordinary thing this is as heroic for me
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as an intervention in in world war two
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you can accept no lives lost ten million lives saved
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she says to me thank you America and I go actually I'm Irish
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yeah but the american people use it for a
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well it's a it's always wonderful to hear this and you're absolutely right
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along the horizon evolve the difficulties for people alive today
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we don't take time to appreciate what do good
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you know you beat yourself up and sometimes very good visas
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you know that yes america's high standards a set for itself
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but it's just important to know the good stuff and right across the continent of
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Africa remembers
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rising constant will be twice the population of China by 2050
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a third of the world's youth will reside
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on the continent Africa by 2050 and they love
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america's I was just telling you that might be important
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for your safety you know this is seriously
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II feeling it's not even a joke if you you just saw what happened in Kenya you
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had the president on here talking and he's got since
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the idea that America is loved
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in this region which is you know largely half-and-half Muslim and Christian
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they're getting along well your these groups like Al Shabaab which you talked
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about al Qaeda
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this crowd's the move right add this is a really smart
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way to fight terrorism I would suggest to a in addition to your route
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when you were a kid 16 or so you started the band The
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your buddies and stuff but where they ended their this awareness the sensor
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responsibility come to you with regard to helping others in the world
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of Irish people like that you know it's it's it's
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he I think it's probably come in i from under colonialism
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you know I should be we very strong kindred spirits with Africa
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it's a lot on the radio and an armband you know
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we were seventeen we went to see The Clash and it just turned our life upside
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down I was like you know
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was like a pub you know it was like a public announcements you know with
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guitars and
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with we sorta are the whole band are committed to these views i mean
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they sometimes get embarrassed by my behavior
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and the people I'm hanging out with before but they do
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largely from support financially and every other way
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what I'm doing and
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but they don't know all the stuff I'm doing so for example right now they
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don't know I'm here
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I above a.m. went to tell me about your
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your family do do they share your musical abilities do they share your
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ideals do they know about helping others well you're
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a.m. yeah I mean my are
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eldest daughter and shortness is working on this concert in the park in New York
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for global citizen dole will be there
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she's a you gonna be a they say who all will be there
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hell fun about by about 60,000 people I'm
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intelsat and the yes she's the do-gooder
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and then we have the verse I can the girls she's an actress she's a do batter
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yeah she's though she's just doing this Steven Soderbergh TV series she's a
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badass I'm she's very disciplined
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very concentrated yeah
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and then those two boys who
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I would be two or so I spoke about the power well there you go
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love
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how do you how do you go from having these ideas to implementing them
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because I anybody can go to right-thinking all my god I wish we
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could help but wish we could do something but
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you know who have done something you've made a difference well the one campaigns
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different from red
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red you go in you buy these red products Apple are right out in front in this for
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the Starbucks as belvedere the dance music
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all the DJ's love that is really simple you buy these aids drugs that keep
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people alive
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the one campaigns different is like a lifelong commitment
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and to fighting extreme poverty fighting injustice
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fighting inequality we are like ok this is the right that if I can say this
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the NRA for the world for that's what we want to be
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I have an array not my thing that my committee all but they are very very
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organized a very effective
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we for million members just under four million members now
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people around the world so if you're a politician you step on the
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mix of the world's poor your dismissive of their plight
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am we're gonna hurt you here
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very exciting to have you here and I love he's letting you be back to sing
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back home again in Indiana
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never been the Indian even in the end I bet Indiana wants me boy I can't go back
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I got you had
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a yeah it's the bono
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everybody a cofounder long and
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good to see you again my friend
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thank you

 

[allbecauseofu2]

i don't remembering the fans signing this deal bono is talking about.

 

[last unicorn]

People saying Bono missed a great promo opportunity don't realize that he was there to promote his campaigns, NOT a new U2 album. It's unrealistic to think he would have both of those things mixed up at one event. If he announced a new U2 album, it would be all over the media and there would be no talk about the campaigns he's intending to speak for and about.

Hell, I want a new U2 album as much as anyone else here and I'm annoyed by all this waiting and vagueness of statements from the band, Bono especially, but I understand, accept and respect Bono's mindset here. Announcing a new album or giving out specific details would be great but it would totally overshadow anything else. If I were in his position, I'd do the same thing, just saying.

 

[Vlad n U 2]

Enjoying this thread's reaction to the interview very much.

 

[popacrobat]

Enjoying this thread's reaction to the interview very much.

5 stars so far.

 

[Skimmer]

He's a great politician. He answered hardly any of the questions directly and clearly has semi-rehearsed answers for most subjects (i.e. his kids). I wonder if the band and Paul sit down and have meetings about the "party line"?

 

[shaun vox]

bono says it took them 3 to 4 months to make the joshua tree..omg

Ron Wood interviews Bono - YouTube

 

[sue4u2]

i don't remembering the fans signing this deal bono is talking about.

4:17
anything a hit in the music too but he says just to teach you to wait

I already know how to wait.. but does that mean I have to wait till next year.
Anywho, not any choice in the matter so we wait..

 

[gvox]

Kingofsorrow broke the thread

 

[LemonMirrorSky]

shaun vox!!

Man, I've missed you going on about Bano.

 

[lemonfly]

I was watching the 1997 Bono/Larry interview on Letterman, by way of a compare and contrast. In '97, he seemed a little spaced-out and uncomfortable just being there. Last night, Bono came across all snake-oil salesman, most of his answers were rehersed and delivered with a politician's gusto. Maybe this is a mode of communication he now has to adopt for his campaigning work. But speaking purely from a rock fan perspective...his "performance" was a little off-putting. (Just my humble opinion - no need for the Bono devotees in the house to apply their war paint ).