Re: The 'KILL BONO' Campaign!

Robbie Robinson ([email protected])
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 01:50:48 -0800

Jeez, where did you get that view of the Spin article.
That thing is pretty much discounted as a piece of
rubbish. It was written by the boyfriend of one of the
opening band members that wasn't even recognized as
a journalist. He was more or less a fringe hanger-on on
the tour that had that alt. rock fan/musician attitude
that if a band is big and sucessful it's the anti-christ.
The article didn't get much respect from anyone, even
other journalists. I can't imagin that Bono's that worried
about threats on his life. He's always wandering around
Dublin on pub crawls with his buddies. He doesn't seem to
mind facing 40 to 80 thousand people (or more) in any
country they can get into as often as possible. He's
constantly happy to meet fans on the street, at his
hotel and after shows to spend time with them. None of
these people are screened or searched and he never seems
to have more than one bodyguard with him, if he has any.
The bodyguard is used mostly to control hysterical fans
and to shoo them off when Bono finally *has* to leave.
Bono dosen't like having to have security.
If you've read the Flanagan book "U2 at the End of the World"
which chronicled the whole Zoo tour, you'd know that and
you'd know that Bono loved sneaking away from his bodyguard.
Each memeber of the band seems to have only one personal bodyguard
although it might seem to be more when they are all together.
Of course, you might believe that the whole book is lying,
but I can't figure out where your coming from with this
post. I doesn't make sense to me.

Robbie

>
> I don't believe Bono is worried about his private sex life.
> Masturbation, Condemnation, In Temptation, something, something,Y2K,
> Loyola 2000, absolute morality, Bonotheism...the list of problems goes
>
> on and on. In fact, I think he's more worried about his safety in
> public
> than anything else right now.
>
> About seven years ago, I can vividly recall an article that Spin
> magazine ran on U2. If I remember correctly, the article was called
> 'U2-Creatures from the Zoo: The Story They Didn't Want You To Read.'
> This was a brillant piece of work that dealt with the early
> controversies involving the mammoth ZooTV Tour (1st Leg). It revealed
> some fascinating bits of info. such as, the "Kill Bono" campaign that
> was rampant in America. Now, this was really intense because security
> was really on alert in case of disaster. It said Bono was followed
> around by a great number of personal security guards which looked
> after
> him night and day (still happens today). In essence, the campaign was
> just a prank by some crazed fan or fans. At the time, the 'Kill Bono'
> campaign was wild and I'm sure Paul McGuiness and company were not
> going
> to take any chances. It scared U2 because this was some serious shit!!
>
> It was like the FBI or CIA trying to silence John Lennon. Hmmm.
>
> Come to think of it maybe the 'Kill Bono' movement was started by
> guilty
> parties such as, Henry Rollins himself...how 'bout Peter Hook of
> NewOrder fame...MOBY, COKE is the Real Thang...Don "the Lame Eagle"
> Henley...Peter Garret who's still burning the already worn-out
> Midnight
> Oil? And the most guilty culprit in my humble
> opinion...drumroll...Dave
> Grohl, who practically denied the Fly in his own backyard!! Yet, On
> the
> 3rd day the King of the Zoos Rose Again...
>
> Yeah I Break Bread and Wine,
>
> Alfred

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