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Bono and the rest of U2 have been big rock stars for decades, but when they first appeared on TIME's cover, many Americans were hearing about them, and their origins, for the first time. Here's how the band got together...
...accompany the noted social activist Bono at the World Economic Forum to discuss globalization nonstop. Then in New Orleans you are hanging with the global rock star Bono at the Super Bowl, a nonstop party. I love Keynesians as much as the next guy, but New Orleans and U2 is tough to beat. As the band members made their way from the field to their sky box following their half-time performance, I talked football with Paul McCartney, who sang along loudly to Beatles songs played on the stadium p.a. Sir Paul high-fived me when...
Call me a fan, but Bono stands out. In the past three years, in talking to politicians, aid workers, activists and United Nations and development-bank officials, I have never heard a single suggestion that the U2 singer was involved with the plight of the world's poor for anything other than genuine concern. In part that's because he has convinced the professionals that he does his homework. It's one thing to hear celebrities talk about "doing something" for a cause. It's quite another to hear a rock star give a lecture on "HIPC conditionality," the terms...
...Then U2's singer Bono strolled...
...Suddenly, the mystery was solved. I was not hip. I was buying into a ridiculous farce. I was, in the words of yet another ticked-off music reporter, part of "the establishment that makes us all embarrassed to call ourselves arts writers." I was, once again, someone who prefers U2's old albums (not exactly Grammy magnets) to their new ones, someone who loves the early Rolling Stones (no Grammys in the '60s and '70s) and who is at a loss when asked to name anyone more talented than Otis Redding...