|
 |
|
|
|
|
"White people don't do [soul music] very well because we don't want to let go. Nihilism suits us." -- Bono, 2000 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"White people don't do [soul music] very well because we don't want to let go. Nihilism suits us." -- Bono, 2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
Bono Wants to Be a Country SingerMcEntee Column
The Express,
September 18, 2001
He fills stadiums worldwide, engineers meetings with the Pope and attempts to alleviate worldwide debt, but U2 singer Bono, 41, is not completely satisfied.
"You know there are moments when I've yearned to be a country and western singer," moans the Irish multi-millionaire. "I'll go back to the hotel and there'll be someone singing, 'Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town,' and I'll be genuinely envious. Standing there in your cowboy hat and your soft shoes singing under your breath. I'd love to be a crooner. I say to R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe, 'You're a crooner,' and he gets upset but it's the highest compliment I can think of paying anyone. I think 'what am I doing slapping myself on the flypaper every night?' There's a cost to this opera." And, referring to his late dad, he adds: "My old man always used to say to me: 'You're a baritone who thinks he's a tenor.' Now that may be a true metaphor in the greater scheme of things but what's more worrying is that -- specifically in terms of singing -- he's right." © The Express, 2001. All rights reserved.
|
|
|
||||||
|
||||||||
