Monday, July 04, 2005

LA Times Loves Bono

U2 news article - from @U2:
"Bono has been so persuasive in his advocacy of debt relief for Africa that he has won the respect even of controversial, ultraconservative Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.

O'Reilly questioned Bono for 45 minutes about African and economic issues before agreeing to have him as a guest on his show last year.

'I think Bono should win the Nobel Peace Prize,' he said in an interview last week. 'He's not a phony. If I can help him in any way, I will help him.'

Bono was on stage at the beginning of the London concert as U2 joined Paul McCartney on the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' and it was striking how essential he seemed to the proceedings. He has achieved a level of social activism Lennon and McCartney had only imagined."