Special Episode: The Bono Interview
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Mike Cosper interviewed the U2 frontman for December’s cover story. Here’s the whole conversation.
00:00 Opening
01:33 Why Did You Write This Memoir?
4:04 How Loss Shaped Bono's Music and Faith
14:26 Culture as a Garden
17:47 Avoiding the Blues
26:59 Pressure to Conform
38:02 "Surrender Still Seems Out of Reach"
43:08 Live Your Faith
49:06 Impact of Activism
52:11 Bono's Poem to Billy Graham
For show notes and more, including the link to the December cover story:
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/...
Excellent interview. I greatly appreciate Bono‘s faith and activism. He may not be the perfect Christian, but nobody else is either. he is trying hard to be his best and do his best, and he is leaning on Jesus for help there in those things as well.
So beautiful and deep ! God Bless Bono...an Outstanding man in so many ways!
I know one individual who became a Christian after reading about Bono back in '83. It changed the trajectory of his life, and he married, became a teacher and has been a solid rock in the lives of many teens in his community. He had been the FM program director of a local rock and roll radio station. I think Bono and this man would have a great conversation in heaven one day. Personally, U2 music lifted me out of some very dark times in my life and sustained my faith. God spoke to my through the lyrics. I have always prayed for the safety and well being of U2 as a thank you. Plus, the influence on the FM program director, who was a very loud opinionated atheist. His becoming a Christian really shook up a lot of people, is another reason for asking God's blessing on the band and their loved ones. Their sacrifices of being away from loved ones has not escaped God's notice.
Yes Paul David,simply THANK YOU for your service.
❤U2
I LOVE Bono great interview.
You have been one of my Very Best heroes to strive onward in my Unique Life in GOD with extreme Human Rights work in Latin America, and the inner-city of KC, NY... Thank YOU!!!
And a member of the World Economic Forum who's trying to turn you into a digital slave!
This 53yo man owes it to those albums. Especially as a 9th grade Protestant 4 spiritual law partaker at a BaptistI church. I had no religious upbringing until then. While in that youth group I still recall sensing in my soul to ask my youth pastor to play those songs. Nope.
Who knew I would be crossing a strong bridge over fresh mountain water on the black side of traumas mountains to ring Brocha’s broken bell anew.
After months on the PCT in 2018, I was called to become all in the RCC. I obeyed.
St. Brendan, pray for us.
EXTRAORDINARY... Thank you for BE-ing so Authentic and vulverable before the worlds stage... GOD Bless you and Keep you, and guide you to your next steps in HIM. GLORY TO GOD! (Jesus did not make any Mis-takes, and He did say GOD is His Father... Peace.)
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33:55 Guilt generally is a by-product of conscience, & conscience is Divine.
I always thought that Hewson was uneducated, but the suggested knowledge here of the works of Turner & Eliot suggests otherwise
Whatever made you think Paul Hewson was uneducated? SMH
@@SweetThing He rarely said anything in interviews thru the years that suggested otherwise, it's only recently I've realised that that was a false impression, & he may actually be quite bright & well read after all
He stands with the sons of Kain... why this soft approach to this clear Satanist?
great. but.. where's bono going with this christianity turn all of a sudden.. he wants to get something out of himself.. but i don't get what really.. anybody know some more info?? another bono christianiy interview someplace??
It’s not all off a sudden. He’s been talking about faith since he’s had a voice.
@@sandyjohnson5111 yeah.. sorry to say but listening to that surrender garbage they just put out.. looks like they've lost all they had in them.. it's like george michael with that symphonica bull towards the end.. only worse..
Bono/U2 have inadvertently served as the torch bearers of deeply thoughtful and reflective Christian faith to a wider secular audience since the early 80s.
"Peace Talks To Hold" -- remake of Silver and Gold-- is not among the 40 re-imagined tracks on Songs of Surrender.
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MUSIC NEWS MARCH 31, 2022 11:33 PM ET
BONO SHARED WITH PELOSI MORE THAN HIS POEM
Then Pelosi shared U2 song remake with staffers - by ALLAN DAVIDSON / Special To Rolling Stone
On March 17, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shared a new poem written by Bono at the annual Friends of Ireland Luncheon, with the U2 frontman comparing the Ukraine president to the Irish saint. Rolling Stone has now confirmed that on March 24 Bono sent Pelosi a follow-up message which included a rough audio mix of an upcoming U2 track, Peace Talks To Hold - a remake of 1985’s Silver and Gold - first heard on the benefit album Artists Against Apartheid, featuring Bono, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood.
[snip]
Peace Talks To Hold
In the art school a bomb blast
The cruise missile comes down
Only civilians are hunted
In this scorched-earth town
Scorched-earth town
Emerge from the black nights
Looks like the sky fall down
Quench fires in the daylight
See the blood spilled on the ground
Spilled on the ground
Everyone knows
Starvation grows
If you wanna way out
Peace talks to hold
Broken dreams, broken windows
Broken ceasefires and lives
I look at the evil, it's moving
A pariah surprise
There's a war criminal
And there's people who resist
Jesus, say something
They will persist!
They will persist!
They will persist!
The hellscape grows
Atrocities show
The only way out
Peace talks to hold
Peace talks to hold
Seen empty baby strollers
Seen dead children and their moms
Seen them army uniforms
Seen them bright and shiny bombs
Bright shiny bombs
Hypersonic missiles fired
Their speed Mach 5 hot
Mister, Ukrainians have souls
And it's more than you got
Chains will never bind them
Nor will shackles at their feet
Russians are the prisoners
And the West is free
They are free
They are free
A great leader in a crisis is bold
Press to the goal
Peace talks to hold
Peace talks to hold
Spoken:
Yep, when are the peace talks?
This song was written about a man named Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, the new St. Patrick.
His goal? To drive out those old snakes once again.
A man who's sick of seeing Mariupol under siege.
A man who said droppin' a bomb on a maternity hospital is the ultimate proof of Ukrainian genocide.
A man who's sick of lookin' down the barrel of the Russian army.
A man who has rallied his countrymen to take up arms against an unprovoked invasion.
A man who said, "I need ammunition, not a ride."
A man who is askin’ more from the leaders of the West, and from those in the Middle East, like Israel.
A man who said Jerusalem is the right place for peace talks with Russia.
Am I buggin' you? I don't mean to bug ya. ...
OK Edge, play the blues!
Satan's poem read by a drunk she-devil. Bravo.
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