I was friendly with a guy called Eugene who played drums in a north-Dublin rock outfit called Stryder. Larry: Because of my job, it wasn't possible to do all of the gigs during the week. And yet.I don't let it gag me."įor a while Bono devoted so much time and effort to debt relief there was hardly time for the music.No, Larry did miss several shows in the very early days, in 1978, just after Paul McGuinness started managing them: "I see how uncomfortable that juxtaposition is. "There's something uneasy about you know spoiled rotten rock stars talking about people who have nothing," Bono says. Has a musician's political view ever affected your outlook? Share your experiences on 60 Minutes II's bulletin boards. Bono worries that celebrities can trivialize an issue even as they draw attention to it. The Vatican never released those pictures, which may be just as well. "He surprised everybody, particularly the Vatican courtiers, 'cause he put them on and kind of smiled at me, devilishly, I might say," Bono adds. "And I just gave them to him and said, 'As well as a great holy man you're a great showman.' "
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"He was just staring at them in my hand," Bono recalls. In return Bono gave him a book of Irish poetry and a pair of his trademark sunglasses. "And the shot of.a rock 'n' roll star next to a pope usually gets people's attention."
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While Bono says he's not sure he can make the topic of Third World debt sexy, "I can certainly contribute the bsurd," he says. President Clinton and Congress agreed in principle to cancel $435 million dollars worth of debt, providing that the money be used for health, education and development projects, not to line the pockets of corrupt leaders.
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On behalf of a group called Jubilee 2000, he went to Washington, made calls, pounded the pavement lobbying Congress and won. Why is this important to Westerners? "Poverty leads to instability and war, which is bad for everybody," he says. "They're never even getting near the principle.It's simply wrong." That's when Bono found the cause that has consumed his life for the last four years: the never-ending cycle of crippling interest payments made by poor countries to the richest Western nations.īono observes that the poor countries are just paying the interest. He then discovered that this is what Africa pays every week servicing its debts to wealthy countries.
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And we were jumping around the place we felt we'd cracked it," Bono says. "It was $200 million we raised for Africa there.
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Rock stars banded together to raise millions for starving people in Africa. His dedication to helping the poor started in the early 1980s with Live Aid, the benefit that led to "We Are the World" in America. When drummer Larry Mullen said, "Whatever way you sang it, it didn't sound like it made sense," Bono replied, "Let me try again."īut recently Bono has been as likely to step to a microphone to talk politics as he is to sing. They may be using Bono's lyrics, but in the studio, it is a democratic process. Together Bono, the band and producer Daniel Lanois tried to cut and paste a hit.
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He can't be smug in the studio the other band members won't let him.Ħ0 Minutes II watched as they worked on the song, "Stuck in a Moment," from their latest album, two years in the making.īono arrived with his laptop full of lyrics, enough for 100 songs, but only 11 made the cut. Irish people have this kind of irreverence toward success anyway.I'm good at smug actually it's a shame I can't use it here." "The greatest gift the city gave to us here was a life," Bono says.
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They send their kids to the local schools, drink in the local pubs and give free concerts for their neighbors. But for the most part, members of the band are ordinary citizens there.