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I don't like music unless it has a healing effect. I don't like it when people leave concerts still feeling edgy." -- Bono |
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U2 to Help Amnesty International Celebrate Birthday
Rolling Stone,
October 24, 1985
Amnesty International, the nonprofit human rights organization, will celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary next year with a series of benefit concerts in the U.S., starring U2. The shows, tentatively scheduled for next summer, will also feature Simple Minds. Amnesty International officials are now meeting with top music industry figures, including promoter Bill Graham and A&M Records president Gil Friesen, to recruit more acts for the shows and to secure concert sites. They also hope to meet with Band Aid's Bob Geldof and USA for Africa's Ken Kragen to discuss their benefit experiences.
"U2 has agreed to put themselves at our disposal for a week," said Mary Daly, communications director for Amnesty International USA, the organization's American chapter. "We approached them about doing one concert for the anniversary. But they responded with an enormous amount of enthusiasm." Last December, U2 donated proceeds from a concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall to Amnesty. Daly said the organization hopes to raise $1 million from the concerts. © 1985 Rolling Stone. All Rights Reserved.
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