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Jul 25, 2005
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City of Turin presents Bono with honorary citizenship

The City of Turin in Italy awarded Bono with Honorary Citizenship on September 15, 2003. City representatives were finally able to present Bono with the deed in Milan after U2′s show on July 20.

Nelson Mandela and Bishop Tutu are among previous honorary citizens of Turin. Bono is lauded for playing Kosovo stadium and donating the proceeds of that show to reconstructing the hospitals in Sarajevo, for his work on Jubilee 2000, Net Aid, and DATA.

- View a copy of the City Council’s ‘Motion N.33′: Download pdf.
- View the letter Turin sent to Bono: Download pdf

(Thanks to Michele Coppola, Consiglio Comunale, Città di Torino)

10 Comments

  • e July 25, 2005 at 9:19 pm

    125 Million euro for this tour alone, and he still can’t afford to buy himself a dress shirt. Poor chap!

    PS, do you guys think he brushes his chest hair?

    PSS I seem to remember him with more chest hair… Or maybe that’s the hair the doctors (did we thank the nurses yet?) used to make it look as if he never really was bald at all? The mind boggles… (I need to get out more)

  • e July 25, 2005 at 9:19 pm

    125 Million euro for this tour alone, and he still can’t afford to buy himself a dress shirt. Poor chap!

    PS, do you guys think he brushes his chest hair?

    PSS I seem to remember him with more chest hair… Or maybe that’s the hair the doctors (did we thank the nurses yet?) used to make it look as if he never really was bald at all? The mind boggles… (I need to get out more)

  • Simon July 26, 2005 at 5:51 pm

    U2 played in Kosovo?

  • Simon July 26, 2005 at 5:51 pm

    U2 played in Kosovo?

  • c July 26, 2005 at 6:09 pm

    oh go easy on him. can’t we leave the hair jabs to cretins like henry rollins?

  • c July 26, 2005 at 6:09 pm

    oh go easy on him. can’t we leave the hair jabs to cretins like henry rollins?

  • bernhard July 26, 2005 at 9:05 pm

    nope, they played KOSEVO STADIUM in 1997, which is sarajevo´s stadium! great great moment.

  • bernhard July 26, 2005 at 9:05 pm

    nope, they played KOSEVO STADIUM in 1997, which is sarajevo´s stadium! great great moment.

  • Catherine July 27, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    It’s amazing!!!!
    I’m really happy for him, it’s amazing all the things that he had done in his life, I guess that it’s why he TOTALLY deserve that status!!!
    Bono is amazing, I’m really proud, for you know, be a part of the U2-fan, if I can say!!!
    So that citizenship makes me really happy!!!
    Thank God we have BONO!!!

    Ps: We’re not talking about his chest hair, so…it’s not the place here…by the way, he’s handsome just like that…You don’t think that?lol

  • Catherine July 27, 2005 at 8:20 pm

    It’s amazing!!!!
    I’m really happy for him, it’s amazing all the things that he had done in his life, I guess that it’s why he TOTALLY deserve that status!!!
    Bono is amazing, I’m really proud, for you know, be a part of the U2-fan, if I can say!!!
    So that citizenship makes me really happy!!!
    Thank God we have BONO!!!

    Ps: We’re not talking about his chest hair, so…it’s not the place here…by the way, he’s handsome just like that…You don’t think that?lol

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