Bono

by Michka Assayas

  Shadow of the Sun, The (Kapuscinski), ref-1

  Shalom Christianity, ref-1, ref-2n

  Sheehan, Dennis, ref-1, ref-2

  Sheep image of mankind, ref-1

  “She’s a Mystery to Me” (Bono for Orbison), ref-1

  Shriver, Bobby, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Shröder, Gerhard, ref-1, ref-2

  Simon, Paul, ref-1

  Sinatra, Frank, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Slits, ref-1

  Smash, ref-1

  Smirk, ref-1

  Smith, Patti, ref-1

  Solo artists, ref-1, ref-2

  “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” (U2), ref-1, ref-2

  Songs, favorite, ref-1

  Songs and questions, ref-1, ref-2

  Songwriting by accident, ref-1, ref-2

  “Sparky.” See Adam (Adam Clayton)

  Special Olympics, ref-1

  Sperling, Gene, ref-1

  Spirit, journey of, ref-1

  Songbook (Beatles), ref-1

  Spirituality of Adam Clayton, ref-1

  Springsteen, Bruce, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4, ref-5, ref-6

  Staging events at concerts, ref-1

  Stars (greatest), ref-1

  Status and celebrity, ref-1

  “Stay (Faraway, So Close)” (U2), ref-1

  Stipe, Michael, ref-1

  Stokes, Niall, ref-1

  Strategy, thrill from, ref-1

  String of Pearls, A (Bono), ref-1

  “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” (U2), ref-1

  Suburbia, violence of, ref-1, ref-2

  Success and celebrity, ref-1

  “Sugar Daddy” (Bono for Tom Jones), ref-1

  Suicide, ref-1

  Summers, Larry, ref-1

  “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (U2), ref-1

  Sunrises and death, ref-1

  Sunset Sound Studios, ref-1

  Super Bowl, ref-1

  Super models and U2, ref-1

  Survival of U2, ref-1. See also Bono; U2

  advice for show business, ref-1

  business vs. show business, ref-1

  challenge, love of, ref-1

  madness, bouts of, ref-1

  money, importance of, ref-1

  points of view (different), importance of, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  power from constituency of people represented by Bono, ref-1

  reality, out of touch with, ref-1

  “rock’s conscience,” ref-1

  rock stars, warning against other, ref-1

  solo artists, ref-1, ref-2

  songwriting, importance of, ref-1

  tension in, ref-1, ref-2

  Swift, Jonathan, ref-1

  T. Rex, ref-1

  Talking Heads, ref-1

  Taste, ref-1

  Teardrop Explodes, ref-1

  Telephony phenomenon, ref-1

  Televangelists, ref-1

  Tension in U2, ref-1, ref-2

  Terror and poverty, ref-1

  Terrorism, ref-1

  “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” (Chevalier), ref-1

  Therapy, opinions about, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Theroux, Paul, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3n, ref-4, ref-5, ref-6

  Thinking people, audience as, ref-1

  Thin Lizzy, ref-1, ref-2

  Thomas, Chris, ref-1

  Three Degrees, ref-1

  Time magazine, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Touré, Ali Farka, ref-1

  Townshend, Pete, ref-1

  Trade (free) as future of third-world, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4

  Transformer (Reed), ref-1

  Traub, James, ref-1

  Traveling salesman, Bono as, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Trust, ref-1

  Truth, discovery of, ref-1

  Turlington, Christy, ref-1, ref-2

  Tutu, Archbishop, ref-1, ref-2

  “Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad” (U2), ref-1

  U2, ref-1. See also Adam (Adam Clayton); Bono; Edge; Larry (Larry Mullen); Survival of U2; Zoo TV

  audience, perfect, ref-1

  audience, performers becoming the, ref-1

  audience, thinking people, ref-1

  black music, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Collingham Gardens flat, ref-1

  “community artist” vs. solo singer, ref-1

  DATA involvement, impact on U2, ref-1

  destiny, in charge of its own, ref-1

  determination of, ref-1

  divining, ref-1

  family, band as, ref-1, ref-2

  fighting among U2, ref-1

  first impression of U2, ref-1

  great vs. very good song, ref-1, ref-2

  groupies, ref-1

  “inspired” music of, ref-1

  intimacy of songs, ref-1, ref-2

  Michka Assayas champion of, ref-1

  music, giving yourself to, ref-1, ref-2

  origins of, ref-1, ref-2

  preparation for humanitarian involvement, ref-1

  punk rock, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4, ref-5

  relentlessness of, ref-1

  religiousness of music, ref-1

  sexual, music as, ref-1

  staging events at concerts, ref-1

  trauma of religious experience, ref-1

  weight (authority) of, ref-1

  U2: At the End of the World (Flanagan), ref-1

  U.K. music press, ref-1, ref-2

  Unconscious, ideas from, ref-1

  Unforgettable Fire, The (U2), ref-1

  United Ireland and America, ref-1

  “Until the End of the World” (U2), ref-1

  Up, Ari, ref-1

  Valentino, Rudolph, ref-1

  “Vertigo” (U2), ref-1, ref-2

  Vertigo Tour (“Best of U2”), ref-1

  Video games, ref-1

  Violent beginning of America, ref-1

  Virgin Prunes, ref-1n, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4

  Viv, ref-1

  Volcker, Paul, ref-1

  Voodoo Lounge (Rolling Stones), ref-1

  Vox, Bono, ref-1. See also Bono

  VSD,ref-1

  Wall Street (film), ref-1

  Wall Street Journal,ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  War and eternity (religion), ref-1

  Warhol, Andy, ref-1

  War tour, ref-1

  Weaknesses and friendships, ref-1

  Weberman, A.J., ref-1

  Weight (authority) of U2, ref-1

  Wenders, Wim, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  “When Will I See You Again” (Three Degrees), ref-1

  White Album (Beatles), ref-1

  Who, The, ref-1, ref-2

  “Who Are You?” (The Who), ref-1

  Wilde, Oscar, ref-1

  Williams, Willie, ref-1

  Wilson, Brian, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Wings, ref-1

  Wit and sarcasm of Bob Hewson (Bono’s father), ref-1, ref-2

  “With or Without You” (U2), ref-1

  Wolfensohn, Jim, ref-1

  Wonder, Stevie, ref-1

  “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (The Who), ref-1

  Wood, Ronnie, ref-1

  Words for music, origins of, ref-1, ref-2

  World, condition of, ref-1

  “Worst, The” (Rolling Stones), ref-1

  Yeats, William Butler, ref-1, ref-2

  Yellow Submarine (Beatles), ref-1

  Young, Neil, ref-1

  Young Marble Giants, ref-1

  Youth, obsession with, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3

  Zarema, ref-1

  Zealot attitude, ref-1, ref-2, ref-3, ref-4

  Zenawi, Meles, ref-1

  Zimmerman, Robert. See Dylan, Bob

  Zooropa (U2), ref-1

  “Zoo Station” (U2), ref-1

  Zoo TV. See also U2

  Adam Clayton and, ref-1, ref-2

  confusion from, ref-1

  cost of, ref-1

  filming audience member, head to toe, ref-1

  night rally idea, ref-1

  rock stars portr
ayed on, ref-1, ref-2

  strategy of, ref-1, ref-2

  Zucchero, ref-1

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  * Fionan Hanvey (a.k.a. Gavin Friday) and Derek Rowen (a.k.a. Guggi) created in 1978 the Virgin Prunes, an avant-garde punk rock band where Dick Evans, The Edge’s elder brother, started out as well.

  * “The Ocean,” from Boy.

  * Lypton Village was the name of the surrealistic street gang Bono and his friends were part of, where name-giving was one of the rituals. (See Chapter 6)

  * Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) taught poetry at the National University in Dublin.

  * J. Robert Oppenheimer’s quote is: “I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.” The Bhagavad Gita says: “I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world.”

  * “Colonel” Tom Parker was Elvis Presley’s manager.

  * See Chapter 15.

  * My wife’s name is actually Clara, but that was a good try.

  * The man who shot John Lennon.

  * A Christian group Bono, Edge, and Larry Mullen joined by 1981, whose purpose was to study the Scriptures.

  * Located in Bray, fifteen miles south of Dublin, the tower that Bono bought belongs to a series of seventy-four towers erected by the British War Office around the coast of Ireland during the Napoleonic wars. They actually derive their names from a place in Corsica called Mortella, where stood a round tower that the English had besieged in vain in 1794. Napoleon is believed to have used the coast of Ireland as a “back door” for invading England. Forty feet high and eight feet thick, these small round towers have flat roofs to which a lookout could climb up and set fire to a bundle of wood to signal the arrival of an invading ship.

  * Bobby Sands (1954–1981) was an Irish Republican from Belfast.

  *Sandinista!, 1980.

  * It might have been one of the three car bombs planted in the City Centre of Dublin on May 17, 1974, by Loyalist paramilitaries. As a result thirty-three civilians and an unborn child were killed.

  * Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

  * That, of course, was a few weeks before Brando’s death in June 2004.

  * Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)

  * Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is most renowned for his Diaries.

  *That question obviously was a last-minute addition.

  * French pop radio station

  † French chain of multimedia stores

  *Chronicles: Volume One was published in October 2004. The book actually mentions Dylan’s own conversations with Bono: “Spending time with Bono was like eating dinner on a train—feels like you’re moving, going somewhere. Bono’s got the soul of an ancient poet and you have to be careful around him. He can roar ’til the earth shakes.”

  *Balthus, born in 1908, died in 2001.

  * Chorus from John Lennon’s “Instant Karma.”

  * Producer and writer of Notting Hill and cofounder of “Make Poverty History.”

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