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setembro 29, 2007
Bono e DATA recebem medalha de ouro
Bono, vocalista dos U2, foi galardoado com a Medalha da Liberdade em Filadélfia, nos EUA.
Este reconhecimento é anual e destina-se a premiar personalidades que se destaquem no esforço pela Liberdade.
Bono é o primeiro galardoado sem ser político, que vê assim ser reconhecido o seu trabalho junto dos governos mundiais para acabar com a dívida dos países de Terceiro Mundo. Entre os laureados do passado encontram-se Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton e Kofi Annan.
O músico já reagiu publicamente ao prémio «No corpo político da América não há poesia como a poesia da Declaração da Independência e a Constituição. O que eu adoro na América começou em Filadélfia. É a expressão desses valores que o mundo precisa de ver. A América que libertou Omaha Beach, que reconstituiu a Europa com o Plano Marshall. Que pôs o Homem na Lua».
O vocalista dos U2 expressou também a sua repulsa pela forma como o governo do Myanmar está a tratar os Monges Budistas que têm protestado contra o aumento do preço dos combustíveis naquele país. Segundo as últimas notícias vários Mosteiros foram invadidos, na sequência de uma série de confrontos violentos que já levaram à morte de nove pessoas. Em declarações à Associated Press, Bono mostrou-se solidário com os Monges «A sua não violência poderá, eu rezo, ganhar sobre a fealdade da situação», continuando «há perigo. Eu pouco dormi esta noite e estou certo que toda a gente que viu também. Até onde é que eles estão dispostos a ir?».
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Discurso de Bono:
Won't take long. I'm the Fidel Castro of speechifying. We've got a few hours, don't we?
Right. Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. (George H.W. Bush) Thanks Joe. (Joseph Torsella, President and CEO, National Constitution Center) and everyone here at the National Constitution Center. It's an inspiring place. In the words of Robert Zimmerman - Bob Dylan – "ring those bells…ring those bells."
I want to thank my wife, Ali. And I also want to thank the members of U2 for not firing me when they hear I'm in Philadelphia this evening because they're in the studio expecting me, and I know they won't fire me because it is Philadelphia and we've played everywhere here. From 70 people to 70,000 people here. An important city for the U2ers, as well as these both Live 8 concerts which really turned my life upside down.
I've got 5 minutes to talk and I can spend that doing the shout-outs, but I want to thank Ngozi. (Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister of Nigeria and current member of DATA's Policy Advisory Board) Really for what she said, for what she is and for what she does. This is the kind of leader we all want to work for. This is the reason we in DATA do what we do. We love you dear.
I must tell you it's a bit humbling for me to be here where it all got started. Where America got started. Because along with a mayor, a governor, a former president, and so many others that served the cause of freedom while I, it has to be said, have served the cause of my own ego. President Bush, you may remember that when you were in office in 1992 and U2 was touring America, I used to do this bit every night in the show where I would bring a phone out and I'd ring you up at the White House. You never took my calls, Sir. You had far too much sense. That's the truth. Now your son, he did not have your sense. He not only took my call, he had me over to lunch. And then I wouldn't leave. I think he's been regretting it ever since because when I come over to the house, I'm not exactly what you call "house trained" - even White House trained. I'm not exactly what you call a good guest either. I can be rude and I ask for things before we even sit down for tea, like billions of dollars to fight AIDS in Africa. Things like that.
I'd like to think that I've always left the White House with more than I arrived. Not only budget commitments, cutlery, silverware, candelabras, one or two Bush family photos, -OK one Gilbert Stuart portrait…of George Washington; it was in the bathroom – nobody could see, I'll give it back.
I have to say that people took risks in working with us. And want to say that current President Bush was not only gracious, he was passionate. Passionate about doing more for the poorest of the poor, and smart enough to know that he wasn't just letting a rock star run amok with his staff. He knew that DATA, the organization being honored tonight, was bursting with energy. Filled to the brim with the best and the brightest people – policy people, campaigners, I salute you. Your servant. (bows)
Still, it is risky working with rock stars, children, animals. People we wouldn't have expected had us in their offices again and again hammering out new initiatives, like the Millennium Challenge Account, which rewards poor countries that were tacking corruption. And, like Ngozi was talking about, was looking for investment, you know aid as investment. And we also worked with President Bush on a historic AIDS initiative where now I can tell you that it's not just one million that you heard about, it's now one-and-a-half million Africans who owe their lives to the two pills a day that they receive from the United States of America. It's a great thing.
I might add that this can only happen because in Congress, heroic Democrats and Republicans put down their politics and put in their political capital to make things happen for people who don't have a vote. And it couldn't have happened without the leadership of president number 43, but number 42 as well. I just had the pleasure of telling William Jefferson Clinton, whom you travel with so much, that thanks to his and other G8 leaders supporting debt cancellation, and as a result of inspired African leadership, there are now as you heard earlier, and I can confirm it, 20 million African children going to school that wouldn't be otherwise. Twenty million African children – WOW! That's worth shouting about. That's the America I love.
And that's why I'm so honored to be here to receive this award – a punk rocker from the north side of Dublin. An organization that until very recently had its data in haversacks and had its office in Kinkos around the corner. No, I want to thank the organization and people like our instigator and part-time flame thrower, Bobby Shriver and Jamie Drummond who's sitting there who are something special. Jamie, if you've noticed, Jamie and I have accents. Subtle. We come from "over there" across the water. But we're over here because we're fans of America. And, in that sense, we're no different than the two-and-a-half million Americans who have now joined the ONE Campaign which began its life in this great city of Philadelphia in 2004 right in front of Independence Hall. We're fans of America.
I'm also a fan of Benjamin Franklin. Which I noticed earlier – Franklin who wore John Lennon glasses before anybody, before they were cool. Franklin who went electric before Dylan. Franklin who said, as you heard earlier, God grant that not only the love of liberty, but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the Earth so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say "this is my country." Well, in case you hadn't heard, I am not a philosopher, I am a rock star, though after a few pints, this rock star starts thinking he's a philosopher.
So, not a philosopher, but let me set my foot here and say to you tonight this is my country. With humility and pride in my own country, let me say America is my country in the sense that anyone who has a stake in liberty has a stake in the United States of America. For all you've been through, good and bad, this is my country too. For every time I wince, or gasp or punch the wall, when I read something that galls, there's another time I'm reminded of your generosity, your resilience, your innovation, your work ethic, your compassion. Although today, today I read in The Economist an article reporting that over 38 percent of Americans support some kind of torture in exceptional circumstances. My country – NO! Your country – tell me no. (Crowd answers back "no") Thank you.
Today as you pin this great honor on me, I ask you – I implore you as an Irish man who has seen some of these things close up, I ask you to remember you do not have to become a monster to defeat a monster. Your America is better than that. Your America is the one where Neil Armstrong takes a walk on the Moon because he can. Your America is the one where so many Irish people discovered their value. Your America is the one where a brave military fought and died for freedom in places like Omaha Beach, and in the Pacific, where president number 41 here – a true World War II war hero served. Your America gave Europe the Marshall Plan. Your America gave the world the Peace Corps, JFK, RFK, MLK, the Special Olympics, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen – the bard and the boss – Steve Jobs, local hero Will Smith, the meditations of Mark Rothko, the poetics of Allen Ginsberg, Edward R. Murrow, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Mary J. Blige, Frank Gehry, of thee I sing, all of thee.
Hey, these are the reasons I'm a fan of America – and one more. America is not just a country. It's an idea, isn't it? It's a great and powerful idea. The idea that all men are created equal. That "we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These are great lyrics, Mr. Jefferson. Great opening riff. The Declaration of Independence has a great closing line too – "we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Well the men who made that, the men who signed that pledge, had a lot to lose by signing - like their lives. So what then about you and me? What are we ready to pledge? What are we ready to pledge ourselves to? Anything? Anything at all?
What about this idea of liberty? Not liberty for its own sake, but liberty for some larger end – not just freedom from oppression, but freedom of expression and worship. Freedom from want, and freedom from fear because when you are trapped by poverty, you are not free. When trade laws prevent you from selling the food you grow, you are not free. When you are dying of a mosquito bite for lack of a bed net, you are not free. When you are hungry in a world of plenty, you are not free. And when you are a monk in Burma this very week, barred from entering a temple because of your gospel of peace, it is an affront to the thug regime, well then none of us are truly free.
My other country, America, I know you'll not stand for that. So, look I'm not going to stand here, a rock star who just stepped off a private plane, and tell you to put your lives on the line for people you've never met or your fortunes – I haven't. But our sacred honor might just be at stake here. That and a whole lot else. So what, then, are we willing to pledge? How about our science, your technology, your creativity…America has so many great answers to offer. We can't fix all the world's problems. But the ones we can, we must.
Enough of my voice. Listen to the voice of young Africa. Good night.
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setembro 27, 2007
Bono reza por Myanmar
Acompanhado por Edge, Bono esteve presente na ante-estreia do filme Across The UNiverse em Londres, no qual interpreta o papel de Dr. Robert.
Durante a aparesentaçao, Bono alertou para a situação que se vive em Myanmar:
«É extraordinario ver os monges budistas. Com o seu movimento pacifico podem mudar a dificil situação, rezo eu.
Até onde conseguirão chegar? 8...) todos deveriamos cruzar os dedos e rezar por eles.»
Bono paroveitou ainda para elogiar o trabalho de Aung San Suu Kyi, lider da oposição da Birmânia e prémio Nobel da Paz: «Seguiu sempre os seus passos. É uma bençao»
Vale ainda a pena recordar que a musica Walk On é dedicada e inspirada nela.
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setembro 24, 2007
Across The Universe a 15 de Novembro
O filme Across The Universe que conta com a participaçao de Bono, tem data de estreia marcada para Portugal para do dia 15 de Novembro.
O filme realizado por Julie Taymor, conta com Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs e Martin Luther.
Enquanto o filme nao chega, aqui fica o trailer.
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U2 entre os que mais facturam!
Mesmo parados, os U2 nao param de facturar! A revista Forbes publicou a lista dos 10 artistas da musica que mais facturaram este ano até agora e os U2 aparecem em 9º lugar com uma facturação de 30 milhoes de dolares:
1. The Rolling Stones - US$88 milhões
2. Jay-Z - US$83 milhões
3. Madonna - US$72 milhões
4. Bon Jovi - US$67 milhões
5. Sir Elton John – £53 milhões
6. Celine Dion - US$45 milhões
7. Tim McGraw - US$ 37milhões
8. 50 Cent - US$33 milhões
9. U2 - US$30 milhões
10. P Diddy - US$23 milhões
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setembro 20, 2007
The Joshua Tree Special Edition
Tal como o U2Only tinha anunciado há cerca de uma semana, vai ser mesmo lancada uma edição especial do cd The Joshua Tree, comemorativo dos 20 anos de lançamento. Ainda são poucos os detalhes, mas a data apontada até ao momento é 23 de Novembro.
Tambem já foram revelados mais pormenores quanto ao alinhamento das 3 versões diferentes:
1 - Edição normal
CD remasterizado dentro de uma 'super jewel case'.
Booklet de 24 páginas.
2 - Edição deluxe
2 CDs
Livro de capa dura de 5" com 24 páginas.
Duas carteiras para guardar os 2 CDs.
3 - Edição Limitada
Para além dos dois cds da edição deluxe, tambem contará com um DVD com um concerto realizado em Paris a 4 de Julho de 1987.
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setembro 18, 2007
Bono dá voz a Across The Universe
Como já é sabido, Bono participa no filme Across The Universe, tanto como actor como musico. E duas musicas que ele canta já estão disponiveis na net:
I Am The Walrus:
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
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setembro 17, 2007
Bono recebe medalha com transmissão na internet
Bono e a DATA irão receber no próximo dia 27 de Setembro em Philadelphia uma Medalha da Liberdade, cuja cerimónia terá transmissão em directo aqui.
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setembro 14, 2007
U2 nomeados para Q Awards
Os U2 estão nomeados para os prémios Q deste ano, na mesma categoria que estavam nomeados no ano passado e que acabaram por nao ganhar, Melhor Banda do Mundo da Actualidade. Os prémios sao entregues a 8 de Outubro em Londres.
Melhor Banda do Mundo da Actualidade:
The Killers
Arctic Monkeys
Foo Fighters
Muse
U2
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Bono entre os baixinhos mais sexys!
Segundo uma tabla elaborada pelo OnePoll, Tom Cruise é o baixinho mais sexy do Mundo. O vocalsta dos U2 tambem aparece na lista, ocupando o 15ª lugar:
1. Tom Cruise
2. Richard Hammond
3. Mark Owen
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Jamie Cullum
6. James McAvoy
7. Michael Owen
8. Kelly Jones
9. Declan Donnelly
10. Robert Carlyle
11. Elijah Wood
12. Seth Green
13. Prince
14. Noel Edmonds
15. Bono
16. Jack Black
17. James Blunt
18. Ben Stiller
19. Jason Priestly
20. Leo Sayer
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Especiais PopMart
O site oficial dos U2 criou um espaço dedicado ao novo DVD, com várias secções.
Tambem o site da Universal Music México criou um site especial com várias curiosidades, jogos e opiniões dos fãs que assistiram a esse concerto!
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setembro 11, 2007
U2 em Fez
Foi disponibilizado na internet um video dos U2 a trabalhar em Fez, Marrocos.
O video pode ser visto abaixo:
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The Edge nos GQ Awards
The Edge esteva no passado dia 4 na gala da entrega dos Prémios «Homens do Ano» da revista GQ.
O guitarrista esteve na cerimónia a acompanhar Jonathan Ive, o desenhador do Ipod, e um dos galardoados da noite.
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9/11
Para assinalar o 6º aniversário do 11 de Setembro, o U2only e o U2PortugalNet criaram um video com a musica dos U2 Stuck in a Moment, versão 9/11.
aqui fica o video:
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setembro 10, 2007
Já Chegou!
DVD 1:
Performance from Foro Sol Autodromo, Mexico City, filmed 3rd December 1997
Pop Muzik / Mofo / I Will Follow / Gone / Even Better Than The Real Thing / Last Night On Earth / Until The End of The World / New Year?s Day / Pride (In The Name Of Love) / I Still Haven?t Found What I?m Looking For / All I Want Is You / Desire / Staring At The Sun / Sunday Bloody Sunday / Bullet The Blue Sky / Please / Where The Streets Have No Name / Lemon (Perfecto Mix) / Discoth?que / If You Wear That Velvet Dress / With Or Without You / Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / Mysterious Ways / One / Wake Up Dead Man
DVD 2 (Bonus disc):
1.
Bonus live tracks
Please / Where The Streets Have No Name / Discoth?que / If You Wear That Velvet Dress
All recorded live at Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam on 18th July 1997
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me / Mysterious Ways / One
All recorded live at Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton on 14th June 1997
2.
Bonus video tracks
Staring At The Sun (Miami version)
Directed by Morleigh Steinberg
Last Night On Earth - First Night In Hell (Remix version)
Directed by John Bland
3.
Documentaries
- Lemon For Sale
- The Road To Sarajevo
- A Tour Of The Tour
- Last Night On Earth ? One Day In Kansas
4.
PopMart Tour Visuals Montage
Curated by Catherine Owens
5.
Extras
DVD-Rom: Weblinks, Wallpapers, Screensavers
Trailer do DVD:
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setembro 09, 2007
DVD PopMart lançado amanhã!
"PopMart Live from Mexico City", dos U2 é lançado esta Segunda-feira (10 de Setembro).
O registo traz o concerto que o grupo deu na Cidade do México, integrado na digressão PopMart em 1997. O mesmo espectáculo já havia sido editado em VHS, um ano depois da tournée, chegando agora ao mercado em formato digital.
O "PopMart Live from Mexico City" vai estar disponível em dois versões: a normal, com apenas um disco com o concerto, e uma edição limitada de dois discos. No segundo disco, os fãs poderão encontrar temas ao vivo que ficaram de fora do concerto no México, vídeos com remisturas da banda e ainda quatro documentários sobre a digressão.
Noticia Cotonete
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setembro 08, 2007
Funeral de Pavarotti
Hoje Bono, a sua esposa Ali, Edge e a sua esposa compareceram no funeral de Pavarotti para a ultima despedida ao tenor.
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Bono no funeral de Pavarotti?
Realiza-se hoje à tarde em Modena o funeral de Luciano Pavarotti.
Nos últimos dias milhares de fãs têm passado pelo velório aberto do cantor na cidade italiana.
Espera-se que hoje o Primeiro Ministro da Itália, Romano Prodi e o Ministro da Cultura Francesco Rutelli e Bono compareçam na cerimónia. Andrea Boccelli vai cantar durante as exéquias.
Luciano Pavarotti faleceu com 71 anos e irá ser sepultado num cemitério próximo à sua cidade natal Modena, junto ao seu filho falecido à nascença Riccardo.
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setembro 07, 2007
The Joshua Tree (Deluxe Edition) a caminho!
E eis que os U2 se preparam para lançar uma edição especial do album The Joshua Tree. Segundo rumores proveninetes da Universal Music, a edição especial será lançada em Novembro numa caixa especial com material inédito do Joshua Tree e um DVD.
Este lançamento será para comemorar o 20º aniversário do lançamento do album.
Recorde-se que este foi eleito pelos leitores do U2Only e do U2PortugalNet, como o melhor album de sempre dos U2!
Para ficares a saber tudo sobre Joshua Tree recorda o nosso especial clicando aqui!
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setembro 06, 2007
U2 preparam despedida de HQ
Os U2 estão a preparar-se para se despedirem do histórico estúdio, Hanover Quay (HQ).
Já há muito que se sabe que o edificio vai ser demolido para a requalificação do porto de Dublin, onde irão nascer vários apartamentos.
Em entrevista ao jornal The Sun,, Edge declarou que a banda pretende «de transformar a penthouse num estúdio(...)é muito triste, porque aquele espaço era como uma casa. Não sei como vai ser gravar no novo estúdio, estávamos tão habituadas ao outro».
Adianta ainda que «não temos nada em calendário para o novo álbum. É bom não ter a pressão».
As informações dos ultimos dias avança, que o album deverá sair no segundo semestre de 2008.
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Mensagem de Bono sobre Pavarotti
“Some can sing opera, Luciano Pavarotti was an opera.
No one could inhabit those acrobatic melodies and words like him. He lived the songs, his opera was a great mash of joy and sadness; surreal and earthy at the same time; a great volcano of a man who sang fire but spilled over with a love of life in all its complexity, a great and generous friend.
Great, great fun, The Pavlova we used to call him. An emotional arm twister if he wanted you to do something for him he was impossible to turn down. A great flatterer.
When he wanted U2 to write him a song he rang our housekeeper, Theresa, continually so we talked about little else in our house.
When he wanted U2 to play his festival in Modena, he turned up in Dublin unannounced with a film crew, and door-stopped the band. His life and talent was large but his sense of service to the weak and vulnerable was larger.
We wrote Miss Sarajevo for him. He had worked on the humanitarian crisis that was the war in Bosnia. We travelled together on a UN air force flight to Mostar... all of us earnest in hard hats, just about strapped into this industrial aircraft with the big man handing out parmigiano from Reggio Emilia, “the best cheese in the world" he kept saying… deadpan… to make us laugh.
In Pesaro, in his summer house, he lived an almost bohemian life with a recording studio set up in an out house - but did all his vocals in his bedroom... there was a hammock hung between two marine pines for a siesta. He liked to eat, sleep and then warm up his vocals though I remember more eating than warming up. When we first recorded with him I left a stone heavier than I arrived.
Intellectually curious, couldn’t stick to his own generation - loved new ideas, new people, new song forms.
A sexy man whose life lit up again when he fell in love with Nicoletta and as he watched Alice play in the yard. He loved all his daughters so much.
The sadness of losing his only boy his only silence.
I spoke to him last week... the voice that was louder than any rock band was a whisper. Still he communicated his love. Full of love.
That's what people don't understand about Luciano Pavarotti. Even when the voice was dimmed in power, his interpretive skills left him a giant among a few tall men.”
Bono
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Luciano Pavarotti 1935-2007
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