Sonntag, 17. Oktober 2004
oregonlive.com: Bono is the first to admit celebrity is an absurd currency, but he's used his to particular good effect. His engagement with global poverty began in the '80s with Live Aid, the music industry's response to the famine in Ethiopia. Live Aid and Band Aid together raised $200 million, the most for any such effort. And Bono spent a lot of time in Africa before he got to know any world leaders. [
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thefinalword.co.uk: If you told me, when I first start listening to U2 in the early 80s, that some twenty years later, I'd be watching them play the BBC carpark in London, I'd have told you not to be so silly.
Of course, I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that. I would've probably said "My dad's bigger then your Dad". Though with U2, my band is bigger than your band. U2 are the biggest band in the world today. (Sure, maybe The Beatles, and Pink Floyd, and The Stones were bigger, but what have they done for you lately?).
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Of course, I wouldn't have believed you if you told me that. I would've probably said "My dad's bigger then your Dad". Though with U2, my band is bigger than your band. U2 are the biggest band in the world today. (Sure, maybe The Beatles, and Pink Floyd, and The Stones were bigger, but what have they done for you lately?).
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guardian.co.uk: For the first time, the full backstage story of Live Aid, in the words of the people who made it happen. Interviews by Carl Wilkinson [ more]
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