The musicians jump into their white limo and are deposited at the ringside of another great African American athlete-James Brown. Catching a late night J.B. show in Vegas would be a gas anyway, but James announces he has a special guest in the audience he wants to bring up to join him on "Sex Machine." Bono prepares his hair and announces "Magic Johnson!" The place goes nuts as Magic, the superhuman basketball player who recently quit the game when he learned he was HIV-positive, climbs up and joins James in singing "Get up! I feel like a sex machine!"
Bono thinks it's an awkward choice of song for a man battling the AIDS virus after what he has described as a life of promiscuity. "Be a sex machine," Bono says, "but for Christ's sake use a condom."