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Interviews & Press
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04.25.09Bono interviews George Clooney for Anderson Cooper specialLadies... hold on to your knickers hats. It's Bono vs The Clooney on CNN next week. Tune in to hear Bono ask: “You recently slept with someone that I have a crush on … tell me about that?” Clooney is being honored by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. Time asked Bono to write the profile, and CNN shot the interview for a Time 100/Anderson Cooper 360’ Special titled “The World’s Most Influential People.” It will air on CNN on May 1 at 11:00 p.m. ET. Read more on CNN.com
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03.02.09Bono and The Edge on Absolute RadioJavaScript and Adobe Flash player are required to view this clip. var MediaPlayer=new SWFObject("http://player.as34763.net/p/p.swf","MediaPlayerEmbed","500","282","9.0.115.0"); MediaPlayer.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); MediaPlayer.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); MediaPlayer.addVariable("id","6650"); MediaPlayer.write("MediaPlayer"); Thanks to Absolute Radio UK for the heads up on their video of Bono and The Edge's recent interview with them. And you can download the full audio podcast too.
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02.27.09U2’s 12-page interview in Hot Press magazineBono talks about taking on characters to write the songs on No Line On The Horizon: "I’d just kind of worn out my own biography or autobiography. The last two albums were very personal. And I’m not sure if I could bear it any more, let alone anyone else. The irony is, of course, as Oscar Wilde taught us, the mask reveals the man. So you end up in fancy dress revealing your true self. You end up in these very emotional places which you shouldn’t understand, but somehow do." There's a 12-page interview with U2 in Ireland's Hot Press magazine ...
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02.27.09“U2 fans have bigger egos than U2″In this Irish Times interview Bono quotes will.i.am saying U2 fans have bigger egos than the members of the band: “The thing about U2 that nobody seems to get,” says Bono, “is that the very things people think about us, which is the megalomania and the immodesty, they’re so far from the truth. People don’t see that. We had will.i.am doing some work on the new album and he was shocked by the absence of ego. He said: ‘Your fans have bigger egos than you do.’ Discuss.
