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Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview

rollingstone.com — The U2 frontman sits down for Rolling Stone's 40th anniversary to talk about the future, the Buzzcocks and reasons to compromise. Exclusive Audio: Bono grapples with the question "If you could only pursue U2 or activism, which would it be?"

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  • vegasbright, on 11/07/2007, -28/+27in the words of Henry Rollins: I ***** Hate U2
    • LenzM, on 11/06/2007, -15/+5Bono is more irritating than infected hemorrhoids.
      That being said, Sunday Bloody Sunday was a good song.
      • EagleTG, on 11/06/2007, -8/+1Awww... you almost had my Digg, then you had to say U2 had a good song. Digg lost...
        To sorta quote Waterboy: "U2 is the devil"
        There's no quicker way for me to change radio/satellite channels than them playing a U2 song. Oh, and The Edge is overrated.
    • kingp, on 11/07/2007, -8/+4 "Boner! Boner! It's time for DINNER! We're having beanies and weanies, and tacos and nachos!" "Yeah, in the morning, Boner's mom turns to Boner's dad and says "Is Boner up yet?"uh huhuhuh"
    • hedgeland, on 11/06/2007, -4/+8In the words of me: Henry Rollins ***** sucks. U2 ***** rocks. Of course being an obsessed U2 fan for 25 years (before it was cool for ***** to hate Bono) might make me a bit biased.
      • actionscripted, on 11/07/2007, -2/+1I hope Henry Rollins shoves the Joshua Tree up your Irish-lovin' ass.
        • hedgeland, on 11/07/2007, -1/+1And hopefully Bono will shove Henry Rollins' next spoken word masterpiece up your dick.
  • kenvsryu, on 11/02/2007, -11/+5What about making a damn cd?
  • Richandler, on 11/07/2007, -11/+31Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
  • krisscofield, on 11/01/2007, -14/+7Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, YEAH!
  • IllBeBack, on 11/02/2007, -20/+15Bono is such a huge pile of crap. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!!!
  • f4nt0m4s, on 11/01/2007, -11/+6they came up with the Katie Couric scale just for people like Bono
  • afdlips, on 11/07/2007, -10/+5biddy biddy.
  • groundctrl, on 11/01/2007, -9/+3yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah?
  • nikebud, on 11/07/2007, -7/+20Bono and Rolling Stone feed off of each other. to the point where if Bono gets out of bed in the middle of the night to piss, it's a Cover Story (TM). Please, when Rolling Stone decides to cover something relevant in the world of music, and not simply cater to the wants and whims of the Recording Industry and related political mafia, I might be interested.
    • thailand1972, on 11/02/2007, -7/+3Hmmm, when Trent Reznor gets out of bed for piss in the middle of the night (e.g. is a member of OiNK! WOW!), it makes the front page of Digg. Different musician, different media, same crappy fanboyism.
  • f4nt0m4s, on 11/01/2007, -6/+2i think this is more relevant than the interview:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIJVgcS-ws
  • worn, on 11/07/2007, -10/+25Did any of you actually read the article? He has some very intelligent things to say.
    • cerealjynx, on 11/06/2007, -11/+7There there my little crap.
    • spudnic, on 11/07/2007, -8/+8He's still an arrogant *****.
    • DaveMN, on 11/06/2007, -8/+3He says nothing about music, which is really the only thing he's qualified to talk about.
  • xJudahx, on 11/06/2007, -17/+10Wow, a ***** magazines interviews a ***** musician. AWESOME
  • professorfurley, on 11/06/2007, -16/+9bono's a tool
  • lxcid, on 11/06/2007, -13/+2yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

    bury me. I bet there's more yeah yeah yeah yeah below or above.

    yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

    hello hello
  • mongoloidplease, on 11/01/2007, -7/+1"I mean, even I have a second place trophy for most Sports Illustrated subscriptions sold"

    "I have the first place trophy for that"
  • Towelie, on 11/06/2007, -10/+2its why he have the record for biggest crap..DON'T U UNDERSTAND?!?! HE IS CRAP
  • skim1420, on 11/07/2007, -4/+20What is it that he said that you all disagree with? Persuade me to hate Bono for the contents of that interview.
    • hazello, on 11/07/2007, -4/+0RS: Has your activism made you more or less idealistic about government?
      Bono: Just being in D.C., and meeting all the people I've met - I've now been going there for nearly ten years. They let me in their rooms and they listen to my rhetoric or invective or whatever it turns out to be. And I come away from that city not with nausea but with admiration. These people work like dogs. These lawmakers, they're trying to move between their families back home and Washington. All of them could make much more money in the private sector. Not all, but most of them are there for the right reasons. There's very little glamour.
      Me: Obviously, he is deluded.
  • chris8535, on 11/07/2007, -2/+17"If you could only pursue U2 or activism, which would it be?"

    I hate questions that try to change reality and separate two dependent things in order to see how someone would react. Its lazy interviewing. Its like saying "well what would you do if you had to choose between eating and breathing" ... well I have to do both to live so... you are asking about an alternate universe where I can only choose when... this relates to reality how?
    • mongoloidplease, on 11/06/2007, -7/+1Maybe the question is hinting that celebrities should SHUT THE ***** UP about political activism and stick to what they know.
    • tr0j, on 11/06/2007, -0/+4It's called rhetoric. The question is not as important as the answer it invokes by drawing an intelligent interviewee to talk about the importance of both ideas.
      It doesn't matter which one he'd rather pursue. It matters that he can't choose because each have their own amazing significance.
  • Supergaxx, on 11/06/2007, -12/+4***** Bono........
  • PintOfGuinness, on 11/07/2007, -7/+3I was surprised he didnt condemn some of the more obvious problem makers in the world. Reading what he said at first sounded intelligent but actually a lot reminded me of someone a bit out of touch and not really understanding the bigger problems with American foreign policies. The whole situation is nothing like Northern Ireland and Im from there, illegally invading a country like iraq means no amount of dialogue will make a tad bit of difference!
    • mstoneburner, on 11/07/2007, -0/+2The Iraqi invasion wasn't illegal and no amount of claims to the contrary will change that fact.
    • Nijenna, on 11/07/2007, -0/+1The U.S.A is not perfect, but I know in my heart my country is one of the BEST in the world.
      Freedom does not come free.
  • amneosis, on 11/06/2007, -9/+3Reading that made me nauseous, he's got his head so far up America's arse he can see Canada.
  • colonelbuckshot, on 11/07/2007, -11/+7Q: "If you could only pursue U2 or activism, which would it be?"

    Bono: "Whichever complements my egotism best"
  • ahhell, on 11/06/2007, -8/+3HELLO HELLOOO!!!

    Bono
  • tbell, on 11/07/2007, -13/+5***** Bono
  • telepwn, on 11/07/2007, -12/+9Bono could single-handedly save earth from global warming, nuclear holocaust and a meteor impact and I'd still think he was the biggest douche I'd ever seen in my life.
  • henrikakselsen, on 11/07/2007, -3/+20wtf is the deal with diggers suddenly hate Bono? Now that's that an interesting person to hate. When did it become bad to be frontfigure of the one of the most influential rockbands over three decades. When did being concerned about poverty, AIDS and global warming become a bad thing? I don't get it...
    • logosx1, on 11/06/2007, -7/+1He's a self-important, sanctimonious hypocrite who skimps on the same taxes he demands everyone else pay to support his ideology. By the way, his ideology -- global, forcible re-distribution of wealth -- is immoral and ineffective.
    • SeligErasmus, on 11/02/2007, -0/+3South Park had a recent episode parodying Bono's presence in everything from charity to a turd contest. It was an amusing episode. Like the bandwagon-jumpers that they are, all the diggers suddenly hate Bono.

      Don't get me wrong, I'm not really a U2 fan, and I loathe the Edge's formulaic guitar style, but the guy is really trying to put an end to a lot of suffering in the world - poverty relief, AIDS charities, etc.. And while Bono's personality rubs me the wrong way, he's pretty apolitical in his charity efforts - which is admirable. I'd much rather have Bono repackage Joshua Tree every couple of years and fight AIDS and world poverty than have a douche like Springsteen use every ***** concert, public appearance and interview as an opportunity to preach at people.
    • actionscripted, on 11/07/2007, -1/+1I have disliked Bono long before I read any comments on Digg sharing the same opinion.
  • Seren2399, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5"I want to be very, very clear, however: I understand and agree with the analysis of the problem. There is an imminent threat. It manifested itself on 9/11. It's real and grave. It is as serious a threat as Stalinism and National Socialism were. Let's not pretend it isn't."
  • PeckerDunne, on 11/07/2007, -7/+3What's the difference between God and Bono?




    God doesn't think he's Bono.
    chortle, chortle
  • BrokenVisage, on 11/07/2007, -3/+12LOL @ The Bono haters, you're probably the same people who think Tool is some kind of god-like band. ***** losers, U2 pwns.
  • impresently, on 11/07/2007, -4/+16Yeah its so ***** cool to hate the lead singer of the biggest band in the world. It really separates you from the masses doesn't it, because when it gets right down to it, that's is really what its all about isn't it. Hate the famous, because its ***** cool, because nobody else is doing it! Oh, and it's pretty goddamn evident that 95% of you did not read the article.
    What went through your minds can be summed up as such:
    1. Oh look! An article about Bono. God I hate him!
    2. I know what I'll do. I'll open up this digg and continue the bile-filled stream of hate comments that I'm sure are amassing by now.
    3. Read the article, Nah! Why would I want to do that? He might say something that might make me question my hatred for him. (Plus it's a lot easier not to spend the five minutes reading the article.
    4. Hey look, Ive contributed to this river of *****, and I'm just a little cooler now.

    This generation ***** defines itself more by what they hate than what they like.
    • ScottyMcBaggs, on 11/08/2007, -4/+1I'm ***** lollerskating all over the room - the biggest band in the world? Are you kidding me?
      • frostbyt, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1Sorry you have no clue what good music sounds like. You fail at life.
    • actionscripted, on 11/07/2007, -3/+1If U2 is so awesome, how come there are so many response-flames from fanboys in this story? Doesn't their music stand on its own?
  • civperc, on 11/07/2007, -6/+2Hmmmm, all the Bono freaks in here digging down the funny-because-they're-true comments.....
    • brotherfigure, on 11/06/2007, -0/+2How is plagiarizing an episode of South Park funny?
  • sark666, on 11/07/2007, -1/+4"He's not the record holder... HE'S the record"

    Having taken a jab at bono, as many here will (and yes sometimes his self appointed crusade to change things can get annoying), looking at him as an artist, they are one of the greatest bands.

    Most people say it's the stones (and by longevity alone, I guess they are, but what is the stones last hit? I think it's undercover of the night from 1980). *****, u2 formed in 1976, so they've been rockin for over 30 years, so they are getting a little long in the tooth as well, but music wise, you wouldn't know it.

    Unlike any other band (maybe in the history of rock n roll), they have cranked out hits on just about every single album. And not sell out piece of ***** hits, really good music that keeps their fans loyal and also finds a mainstream audience. Even when they drifted and did 'Pop', they still had a hit with discotech.

    A lot of bands seem to lose their creative spark as they get older, but somehow they have maintained it.

    But that's praising the band as a whole not the individual.

    On the other hand a total dick story about bono I read was for the last album (how to dismantle...) Bono had the entire album he was working on, on his laptop, and no backup copy to be spoken of. A man so rich where almost anything is replaceable, but the contents of that laptop were irreplaceable (you can't write something the exact same twice, something would be lost).

    Anyway he lost his laptop, it ended up at a pawn shop. Buddy buys it and fires it up and sees personal pics n ***** of bono and realizes he has bono's laptop. Somehow he got in touch with bono and gave him back his laptop. And you know what bono did for him? Wait for it... He bought him a brand spankin new shiny laptop. Awwww, ain't that nice.

    When I read the story I thought a ***** laptop?! that's it!? Here's something where this rich mofo couldn't replace no matter what and he somehow through luck gets it back and he gave him basically nothing (as buddy already had a laptop). Being that rich, I'd give the guy a million bucks and two tickets for life to all their concerts, hell the good PR from that alone would pay off the million, so it would still cost him nothing. Buddy should have encrypted the ***** out of that harddrive.

    Come to think of it, everyone here is right. ***** bono. :)
  • solid12345, on 11/07/2007, -0/+3At least Bono gets out there and does something positive instead of all those whiny bands like Greenday who say ***** Bush and do nothing about it.
  • Nick519, on 11/07/2007, -0/+5i am amazed at all the bono hate going on. so what if he has an ego - who wouldn't in his position? at least he has a sense of humor, and he's using his position of fame to try and make a difference in the world beyond just his passion for music. he knows what he's talking about on the global social and political stage, and i think he's right on. and, of course, U2 is just an incredible band.
  • sensoukami, on 11/02/2007, -0/+2I like U2, they are amazing showmen, though I'm not a huge lover of their music per se, but he does come across as a self-righteous twit at times.

    To be more concrete, it bothers me that he is out shouting about spending more money to help the poor while his band uses a (legal) tax loophole based in the Netherlands to only pay a small pittance in tax (the Rolling Stones do the same thing). You wanna help the poor so much Bono, spend your own god damn money....
  • gmule, on 11/02/2007, -0/+0From early on Bono had the EGO and the SWAGGER. And he has always been involved in doing good things. Before he was a SUPERSTAR. The money and fame has just flamed his already considerable EGO. Also, it has given him the ability to help more people and to feed some of his grandest fantasies of bringing PEACE to the world.
  • Nijenna, on 11/07/2007, -0/+1Bono is a real liberal, not a far left freak.
    He has reason and common sense that the LEFT does not have.

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