re: one more for the Bono on drugs thread!

Lilith ([email protected])
Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:37:58 -0500

>Check out Elmo's post on Darci's Wire Archives just before your's
>for a very reasonalble and well thought out and researched answer.
>Nope there isn't anything wrong with his heart or he couldn't
>do what he does at every show. The irregular heartbeat isn't that
>unusual and has probably been taken care of. They'd have to get it
>cleared up to get the huge amount of insurance they have to take
>out every time they tour.

I'll bet though that's why he seems to have been eating better and working
out -- nothing like a bad-heart scare to get someone on the exercise
machine! Not that I minded the result. :)

>The red wine thing was something else entirely. They thought at
>frist the allergic reaction he was having was due to him having
>developed an allergy to something that's found in red wine and
>in aspirin (I can't remember what it's called-salicylic acid?)
>Bono mentioned this in an interview. After some more testing they
>discovered it was caused by the wine reacting with a prescription
>drug he was taking then. Remember all those little warning stickers
>on prescription bottles that tell you not to drink while your
>taking this. Well....Bono didn't read it.
>
>Robbie
>

Yeah, I know - no one ever reads the warning labels on anything. As for
cocaine, he doesn't strike me as the sort of person who is a habitual user
of such a drug; but he's no plaster saint, and we know how curious he
is....I would not have put it past him to have tried a snort, no doubt after
having had too much to drink, you know how alcohol undercuts common sense.
And it could explain all that daredevil stuff he used to do on stage:
climbing on speakers, jumping off balconies, etc... After all, drugs are
everywhere in showbiz.

That being said, I still think the I-walked-in-on-Bono-snorting-up story is
unlikely. Such blatantly open drug use - especially during the squeaky-clean
Joshua Tree tour, would have spread like wildfire and have been in the
tabloids in record time. There were too many people in the media who would
have loved to have had such a rope to hang U2 with back then (even as they
were loving them up).

Lilith
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