Bono (43 page)
Authors: Michka Assayas,Michka Assayas
Wilson, Brian,
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Wings,
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Wit and sarcasm of Bob Hewson (Bono's father),
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,
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“With or Without You” (U2),
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Wolfensohn, Jim,
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Wonder, Stevie,
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“Won't Get Fooled Again” (The Who),
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Wood, Ronnie,
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Words for music, origins of,
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World, condition of,
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“Worst, The” (Rolling Stones),
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Yeats, William Butler,
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Yellow Submarine
(Beatles),
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Young, Neil,
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Young Marble Giants,
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Youth, obsession with,
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Zarema,
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Zealot attitude,
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Zenawi, Meles,
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Zimmerman, Robert.
See
Dylan, Bob
Zooropa
(U2),
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“Zoo Station” (U2),
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Zoo TV.
See also
U2
confusion from,
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cost of,
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filming audience member, head to toe,
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night rally idea,
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rock stars portrayed on,
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Zucchero,
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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.
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“The Ocean,” from
Boy.
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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)
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Patrick Kavanagh (1904â1967) taught poetry at the National University in Dublin.
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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.”
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“Colonel” Tom Parker was Elvis Presley's manager.
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See Chapter 15.
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My wife's name is actually Clara, but that was a good try.
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The man who shot John Lennon.
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A Christian group Bono, Edge, and Larry Mullen joined by 1981, whose purpose was to study the Scriptures.
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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.
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Bobby Sands (1954â1981) was an Irish Republican from Belfast.
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Sandinista!,
1980.
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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.
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Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990.
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That, of course, was a few weeks before Brando's death in June 2004.
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Paul Theroux,
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
(Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
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Samuel Pepys (1633â1703) is most renowned for his
Diaries
.
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That question obviously was a last-minute addition.
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French pop radio station
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French chain of multimedia stores
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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 trainâfeels 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.”
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Balthus, born in 1908, died in 2001.
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Chorus from John Lennon's
“
Instant Karma
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Producer and writer of
Notting Hill
and cofounder of “Make Poverty History.”
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