Bono Tells Portland Audience to Care and Get Involved
Bono speaks in Portland, Oregon, about Africa: a continent of tragedy and opportunity.
Darci Chapman Hanning reports for U2log.com. Photos by Peter Hanning.
Beginning his speech with a surprise announcement, Bono revealed that two women had returned the lyrics and notes that had been stolen from him 23 years earlier, just after U2's first gig in Portland. The notes and lyrics were for U2's then upcoming album October.
"People who could have published or sold my back pages, for absolutely no award, have handed them back. An act of grace, an act of goodness; you will never know how much that means to ...