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"Stop the Inquisition" of President Clinton Declares Rolling Stone
Entertainment Wire 22-OCT-98
NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 21, 1998-- Pop
Culture Personalities Voice Opinions on the
Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr Drama Rolling Stone magazine, the
definitive source of music and information and popular culture
trends, has come out in support of President Clinton in a special
issue due on newsstands next week. "Vote down this inquisition,"
urges Rolling Stone founding editor Jann S. Wenner in an editorial
that calls for Congress to get back to the business of government
and address the needs of our country and the world. The
November 12th issue of Rolling Stone hits newsstands on
Tuesday, October 27, 1998.
"...the bottom line is your vote," Rolling Stone's Wenner proclaims,
adding, "We say that we are fed up with this inquisition into the
sexual lives of our leaders, and to hell with the torturers."
In the magazine's special issue, "we have raised our own voice as
loudly as we can," writes Wenner. Rolling Stone's special "Clinton
Conversation" provides a forum for many notable figures from our
pop culture to express their opinions on President Clinton,
Kenneth Starr, Monica Lewinsky and impeachment. Proclaims
Stevie Wonder, "Ten years ago, people were screaming about the
explicit lyrics in rap music. Today...those same people have no
problem putting explicit information on the Internet...for any child
to see. There's something wrong with that picture. I'm glad I'm
blind and can't see it." Sean Lennon states, "I think he should have
resigned a while ago. That would have been the honorable thing to
do." And U2's Bono urges, "Stop it-- America is better than this." A
number of influential musicians, poets, actors, writers and
filmmakers speak out in Rolling Stone and offer their own unique
insights into the Clinton-Lewinsky-Starr drama, among them:
Melissa Etheridge-- "I think it's about time America realizes that
we're all human. And that white, middle-aged men are not more
perfect than anybody else."
David Byrne-- "I think he's a lousy president, I think he's scum, I
think bombing those countries is a criminal act. But I don't think
this affected his ability to do his job."
Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine-- "The scandal is a great
opportunity to block campaign-finance reform, avoid raising the
minimum wage, ignore the farm crisis and allow the banking
industry to throw of regulations that have been in place since the
Depression. Sex is a wonderful thing."
Joan Osborne-- If you are married to Hillary Clinton, why the hell
would you want to mess around with Monica Lewinsky, anyway?
Why go out for a cheeseburger when you can have filet mignon at
home?"
Robert Redford-- "I made the Watergate film All the President's
Men as a monument to a form of journalism in which the
old-fashioned rules applied: You need two sources before you
print anything. This type of journalism no longer exists."
Ice Cube-- "This is the longest blow job in the history of America."
Marilyn Manson-- "I think he's done a good job for the country, and
I think there's no reason why he shouldn't be getting laid just like a
rock star would....I don't think he deserves to be impeached; but if
he does get impeached, he always has a job with me. He can be
my tour manager...." y CONTACT: Rolling Stone, New York
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>From DotMusic:
BB King receives lifetime achievement award
Blues legend BB King�s contribution to black music
was honoured at the third Mobo Awards last
Wednesday (October 14) when he was given the
event�s lifetime achievement award.
The Edge, who played with him on the U2
single When Love Comes To Town, presented
him with the award to a standing ovation at
London�s Royal Albert Hall.
King, who had his 73rd birthday last month,
made his first recordings for Bullet Records in
1949. Among the other winners at the
Malibu-sponsored event were Puff Daddy,
receiving both the best international act and
the outstanding achievement prizes, and
Loose Ends� Carl Macintosh, who won the
Mobo Choice FM contribution to black music
award.
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(Prarit's note: Check out the name in the second paragraph...<LOL>)
U2 Stars Sign Up For Human Rights
PA 10/19/98 12:41
Copyright 1998 PA News
By Ruth O'Reilly, PA News
Irish superband U2 today signed up in support of human
rights - and urged everyone else to do the same.
Lead singer Bono and guitarists the Edge and Larry Clayton
were first to put their names to an Amnesty International
campaign aimed at collecting a million signatures in Ireland
supporting human rights.
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Thanks to The Brazilian Fan Club for the following:
Celebrity diners in tribute to Hume
By Seamus McKinney and Michael O�Toole
NOBEL laureate John Hume was toasted by the cream of the Irish
entertainment industry at a special brunch at the home of U2
singer Bono on Sunday.
The SDLP leader and his wife Pat were special guests at the
brunch on Sunday afternoon at Bono�s Killiney home.
He was joined by Adam Clayton and The Edge of U2 as well as the
group�s manager Paul McGuinness, Dave Stewart of the
Eurythmics, Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan.
Mr Hume first met the U2 members when the performed at a
massive pro-agreement concert in Belfast last May.
Dublin sources said that after the meal Bono paid tribute to the
Derry politician as �the Poetic spirit.� One source said the �energy�
between the two men was evident at the meal.
In tribute to the Dublin singer John Hume told guests that U2 had
played a big part in ensuring the Mitchell Agreement was adopted.
He said that not only did Bono bring the leaders of nationalism and
unionism together in public for the first time, but he played an
important role in ensuring young voters supported the agreement.
Stressing the importance of the young vote, the SDLP leader said
the agreement was about facing up to the possibilities of the future.
Meanwhile, U2 yesterday helped launch a scheme by pressure
group Amnesty International to collect one million signatures from
Ireland in support of human rights.
Bono joined novelist Roddy Doyle at the Dublin launch of the
campaign on O�Connell Bridge � where hundreds of people queued
to add their names to the petition.
Speaking at the launch, Bono called for Europe to act quickly on
the Kosovo crisis.
U2 played in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo after the end of the
bloody civil war there � and he said he was amazed that the
Bosnian scenario was being repeated a few hundred miles away in
the Serb controlled state.
He said: �I�m a pop star, I�m not a politician � I�m not as informed as
I would like to be.
�I just watch like everyone else with amazement that we could
repeat the same mistakes.
�I am embarrassed to be a European whilst we are waiting for the
American cavalry.
�Surely one of the lessons of what happened in Bosnia is that this
is no our doorstep and to wait for, as it happens the fine
conscience of Bill Clinton to act, is just not acceptable.
And he said the campaign for signatures was not just a public
relations exercise for Amnesty International.
Bono said: �These human rights abusers, dictators and toenail
pulling types are all very vain and media sussed � so the more
signatures that arrive at their door, the more they are aware that
people are conscious of what they are doing and it makes it difficult
for them to continue�.
source: Irish News
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Zoonation has a story on the AI signing, written by Dan McGinn.
You can find it at:
http://zoonation.com/news/u2ai_DM.html
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Addicted to Noise has an artice on the upcoming Michael
Hutchence concert planned for '99 -- no mention of U2 though...
You can read it at:
http://rl.sonicnet.com/news/article1.jhtml;$sessionid$UW3M1SYAABJFLUID1AKCFEQ?index=2
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Chemical Brothers: Mixed-Up Reality
By Alona Wartofsky
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 18, 1998; Page G01
It's still too early to know precisely what role electronic dance music
will play in American pop culture. Electronica didn't become the next
big thing, but no one except drug users and record label geeks really
thought it would. Still, that doesn't take away from the validity of the
thriving techno subculture. America's belated rave congregations
continue to dance all night. MTV is still airing its "Amp" techno show.
And elements of electronica have been appropriated by pop
megastars from U2 to Madonna.
Simons and Rowlands say they've been approached by Aerosmith,
U2 and the Rolling Stones, all of whom wanted the Brothers to
produce or remix various tracks.
The entire article can be found at:
http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-10/18/012l-101898-idx.html
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The below is a RUMOUR:
>From Rocktropolis:
U2 RUMORED TO PERFORM AT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE CONCERT
Although it is not confirmed yet, rumors are running amuck that U2
will
join the Cranberries, Alanis Morissette, Phil Collins, and (drum roll,
please) a reunited a-ha for the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo,
Norway,
on Dec. 11.
A spokesperson at Island Records could not confirm U2's participation
in
the event, but rumors surrounding U2's involvement swelled on Friday
(Oct.
16) when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
1998 to John Hume and David Trimble for their efforts to find a peaceful
solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Bono and Co. have appeared
in
support of Hume and Trimble in the past, most recently alongside
Northern
Irish band Ash in Belfast's Waterfront Hall during the May referendum on
the Good Friday Peace Accord.
As for a-ha, the Norwegian trio who scored a mega-hit in 1985 with
"Take
on Me" and is remembered even more so for its groundbreaking video, have
reformed for the event and are considering recording together again. The
band has not released an album of new material since 1992's Memorial
Beach.
In a recent interview with Norwegian news journal Dagbladet, a-ha lead
singer Morten Harket was optimistic about the future. "We'll know more
about that once we get together again," he says with regards to the
possibility of a permanent reformation. "In any case there is enough
material for a new album. Although there are no concrete plans, this is
clearly a fine chance to work together again. Because if this project
doesn't get the thing moving again, it's going to be rough to make
anything
work later."
- Kevin Raub
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The latest Rolling Stone has an article written by Bono, re: The
Whole Clinton Sex Scandal Deal. The article follows:
"In the Eighties, U2 used to take shit in Europe for having hits in the
U.S.
We loved the U.S. and lost ourselves in it . . . the music, the words,
the
whole idea of America the dream. But by the time we were making The
Joshua
Tree, the landscape we loved was a desert: cock-ups in Central America;
Iran-
Contra; more shootings in East L.A. than in Lebanon; mentally
handicapped
outpatients roaming the streets; savings and loans. For Irish people who
viewed the U.S. as a promised land, it was heartbreaking.
Enter the Clintons, an Eighties power couple with a pragmatic idealism
that
would define the Nineties: rightish economics, leftish social reform;
her
intellectual rigor, his strolling optimism. A White House staffer once
told me
how frustrated the new president was at not being able to just jog out
the
door without his security net, which tells you much about his current
troubles. And the key to his appeal: humanness. We met him a few times,
piggybacked his motorcade to a Chicago Bears game, gave him our read on
Ireland, hassled him over Tibet, Leonard Peltier. Even in disagreement,
the
thing that impressed was the brainpower.
We were in a black church in San Francisco the day after the '92
election. It
was electric, it was rock & roll, hope was alive. America was young and
sexy
again, and it wasn't all talk. The president's actions in Bosnia showed
up
Europe's moral and bureaucratic morass. Here in Ireland, there wouldn't
be a
Good Friday peace agreement without him. It seems that his real foes
were in
his own back yard: medical insurers, the gun lobby, the powerful tobacco
companies. And something much worse -- in the media, an insatiable
desire for
sex that mocks their own criticism of the president's. To the rest of
the
world, America looks like a teenager in a masturbatory frenzy of
voyeurism and
Schadenfreude: ratings vs. decency, a Salem witch hunt for evidence vs.
the
human right to some kind of privacy, even in the wrong.
Stop it -- America is better than this. Move on. Stop it by not voting
for the
politicians who have presided over it. The publishing of the Starr
report on
the Internet is a defining moment at the end of the twentieth century,
like
the paparazzi flies around the body of a princess, like a video-game
war, like
O.J.'s trial by television. Except this time, it's America itself that's
in
the dock."
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A picture that accompanies the Irish Times article below can be
found at:
http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/graphics/1098/hom/u2.jpg
It's a fairly decent shot of Bono and Homer...er...The Edge addressing
the crowd at the AI benefit.
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