Ali Hewson, the wife of U2 lead singer Bono, celebrated her sixty-third birthday over the weekend. She has been the muse for the singer for decades. Hewson’s inspiration for his songs like ...
In the 1980s, Bono fell in love with a song from the 1960s. Bono went on to write a track for the singer behind that fantastic song. How Bono accidentally met the singer behind a classic rock song ...
Any good David Lynch movie will change your perception of a song forever. For example, Lynch’s use of a classic rock hit in a film got Bono hooked on the music of a certain singer. Afterward ...
Bono had already been known for disassembling his style with U2, but he knew that the key to a great song is breaking out of the formula.
In September 1980, one month ahead of the release of his band's debut album, Boy, U2 frontman Bono appeared on Irish radio ...
U2 frontman Bono has said many of his band's songs makes him "cringe" with embarrassment, and that he doesn't like their name much either. The band, comprising Dublin schoolmates, has sold more ...
And when I tried to sing like The Clash or whatever else, I just didn't have a great rock and roll voice,” explains Bono. “I sang this song by Peter Frampton called Show Me the Way.
(JTA) — The original lyrics of U2’s hit song “Pride (In the Name of Love)” were about Martin Luther King, Jr. But on Sunday night, the band’s singer Bono changed some of the song’s ...
After seeing U2 perform live in 1981, The Replacements' frontman Paul Westerberg wrote two groundbreaking songs in response to Bono's hit 'I Will Follow'.
Bono, who plans to release an autobiography later ... He wrote many of the group's most successful songs, as well as becoming known as a human rights activist.