Ego warriors: U2 speak out on rock-star hypocrisy
Sunday 2 August 2009, by Corinne/Dead
Bono on U2 ... ’They get kicked because I’m in the band’. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com
By: Dorian Lynskey
Tuesday night in Amsterdam. Inside the city’s ArenA, the colour green floods a giant mosaic of video screens, below which stand the four members of U2, three weeks into their 360 tour. As the band strike up Sunday Bloody Sunday, the screens flash images of protesters on the streets of Tehran alongside lines in Farsi by the Persian poet Rumi. Thus, a song written 26 years ago about political violence in Northern Ireland finds a new and pressing context.
The sequence vividly illustrates U2’s unique brand of stadium activism. There’s also a tribute to the incarcerated Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during Walk On, and a recorded message from Desmond Tutu for the One campaign, co-founded by Bono to mobilise support for developing country debt relief and HIV/Aids treatment, among other issues. No globally successful rock band has ever foregrounded politics for so many years, let alone stalked the corridors of power to help thrash out deals, which is why representatives from Amnesty and the World Food Programme cross paths with Helena Christensen and Anton Corbijn in the VIP area.
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