news.bbc.co.uk: As glowing tributes go, it doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
But Irish rock star Bono certainly knows how to push the right buttons.
Addressing the Labour party's annual conference in Brighton, he dubbed the Gordon Brown and Tony Blair the Lennon and McCartney of global development.
In his student days, when he was lead singer of a rock band, Ugly Rumour, Mr Blair was, apparently, more of a Mick Jagger man.
But in a week when kind words have been thin on the ground, the prime minister looked more than happy to accept the Irish rock star's compliment.
In fact both Blair and Brown grinned away like autograph-hunting schoolboys as the U2 man made his point.
You half expected one of them to whip out a battered copy of The Joshua Tree and shuffle forward, biro in hand. [
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But Irish rock star Bono certainly knows how to push the right buttons.
Addressing the Labour party's annual conference in Brighton, he dubbed the Gordon Brown and Tony Blair the Lennon and McCartney of global development.
In his student days, when he was lead singer of a rock band, Ugly Rumour, Mr Blair was, apparently, more of a Mick Jagger man.
But in a week when kind words have been thin on the ground, the prime minister looked more than happy to accept the Irish rock star's compliment.
In fact both Blair and Brown grinned away like autograph-hunting schoolboys as the U2 man made his point.
You half expected one of them to whip out a battered copy of The Joshua Tree and shuffle forward, biro in hand. [
more] 
