U2 leader Bono debuts as NY Times columnist
Rock legend and social activist Bono, the latest addition to the New York Times' lineup of contributing columnists, has offered up a rumination on music icon Frank Sinatra for his first effort.
Bono said Sinatra had 'the least sentimental voice in the history of pop music,' yet was able to convey more than one emotion in different versions of the same song.
The lead singer of the band U2, who joined with Sinatra in a 1993 album, 'Duets,' said a 1969 recording of the Sinatra standard 'My Way,' is a song of defiance _ 'more kiss-off than send-off,' while a later version, when Sinatra was 78, is 'a heart-stopping, heartbreaking song of defeat.'
ready to jump into another work week. One kid sick, one kid at school, lots of training, my rents coming to town and a lot of day dreaming about the past weekend. :)
U2 to perform new single at Brits
The track is taken from the Irish band's forthcoming album No Line on the Horizon, due out in the spring.
It is U2's first LP since 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which picked up eight Grammys in the US.
Bogus U2 Tickets - So you have been warned
London, January 9 : Irish rock band U2 have cautioned their fans that some fraudsters are selling bogus tickets for their concerts, to be staged as part of a purported summer tour.
The 'Beautiful Day' hitmakers, whose new album 'New Line on the Horizon' is scheduled for release in March, have revealed on their official website that they have yet to confirm plans for a tour, and so any concert dates being touted online are fake.
"Please don't get stung by buying tickets for shows that don't exist," the Daily Express quoted a statement posted on the group's website as reading.
"You can be sure any future live announcements will be made on U2.com as soon as details are confirmed," the statement added.
This is the second time in six months that the band have had to warn their fans against buying counterfeit tickets circulating on the Internet.
In August last year, they were also forced to speak out to correct reports suggesting they were preparing to hit the road.
U2's One Video
As I was thinking about what to throw out today I was remembering the One video. This next administration seems to grab the concept of "we carry each other" Think about the way we are today and the future of what President Elect Obama has started to say. While the video is about taking a care of someone that is not the same as you, via color, race and does not think like you. President Elect has taken us back to a time when we did turn around to see where our brother stands. I think we are all heading in the right direction.
"One life
But we're not the same
We get to carry each other
Carry each other"
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