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01.02.09Bono enjoys a Highland new yearBono enjoys a Highland new year Bono, lead singer of rock band U2, celebrated Hogmanay in the Highlands. The Irish singer, wife Ali and Danish supermodel Helena Christensen, along with family and friends, flew into Scotland for a New Year break at Ben Alder Lodge, the 26,000-acre Inverness-shire estate owned by one of the world's richest men, Swiss financier Urs Schwarzenbach. Bono's group arrived at Inverness Airport on Monday and were taken to the Dalwhinnie estate in a chauffeur-driven Mercedes minibus. The rock star, real name Paul Hewson, was seen wearing a red kilt with Miss Christensen in the bar at the Silverfjord ...
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12.28.08U2 Photoshoot for Q MagazineThe photograpic session for the Cover of Q by U2 Q". ...
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12.28.08U2 frontman Bono slated for ‘war criminal’ support by bandmate Larry Mullen JrU2 frontman Bono slated for 'war criminal' support by bandmate Larry Mullen Jr Dec 27 2008 U2 singer Bono has been blasted for cosying up to "war criminal" politicians - by one of his bandmates. The campaigning star was often seen with Tony Blair and George W Bush while urging action on helping the Third World. But drummer and friend Larry Mullen Jnr said: "Tony Blair is a war criminal and I think he should be tried as a war criminal. "Then I see Bono and him as pals and I'm going, 'I don't like that.' "Do I think George Bush is a war criminal? ...
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12.28.08Private equity company sings rocker’s praisesPrivate equity company sings rocker's praises By JEROME REILLY Sunday December 28 2008 Bono's high-level contacts with world leaders as a result of his work on social causes is being touted as an international calling card for a private equity company in which he is a partner. The company, Elevation Partners, named after the hit U2 song, has just invested $100m in recession-hit smartphone manufacturer Palm. It is the second big investment in Palm by Elevation Partners, which bought a 25 per cent stake in the company for $325m in 2007. On its website, Elevation boasts of Bono's relationships with international politicians, forged by his work ...
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12.28.08A beautiful payday of €21m for U2A beautiful payday of €21m for U2 Sunday, December 28, 2008 By Gavin Daly Bono and his fellow U2 members have enjoyed a beautiful payday, netting €21 million from one of the band’s main companies. The ‘‘employees’’ of U2 Ltd - understood to be the four band members and manager Paul McGuinness - received wages of €21.1 million for 2007, on top of €18 million in 2006. Their 2008 take-home pay from the company, which licenses U2’s intellectual property, is likely to be in line with those figures. The higher pay in 2007 came despite a fall-off in operating profits at U2 ...
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12.27.08‘No Line on the Horizon’'No Line on the Horizon' No Line On The Horizon, the new studio album from U2, will be released on Monday 2nd March 2009. Written and recorded in various locations, No Line On The Horizon is the group’s 12th studio album and is their first release since the 9 million selling album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, released in late 2004. Sessions for No Line On The Horizon began last year in Fez, Morocco, continued in the band’s own studio in Dublin, before moving to New York’s Platinum Sound Recording Studios, and finally being completed at Olympic Studios in London. The album ...
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12.16.08U2 In London, A VideoU2 In London, A Video Larry, Edge, Bono and Adam were holed up in a warehouse on the outskirts of London yesterday, a video with director Alex Courtes. Performing a brand new song, the band worked on the shoot from late morning till late night, the elegantly mustachioed Courtes directing proceedings on the green stage. We are sworn to secrecy on the finer details of the shoot... but there may have been some marching s involved. With their boots on. Courtes last ...
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12.13.08U2 Film First Video For Next AlbumU2 Film First Video For Next Album by Paul Cashmere - December 13 2008 U2 spent Thursday in London shooting a video for the first single from the next album `No Line On The Horizon`. The video was shot by director Alex Courtes, who last worked with the band on the video for ‘City Of Blinding Lights’ in 2006. Courtes also made the video for ‘Vertigo’ for U2 as well as ‘Giving You Up’ for Kylie Minogue, ‘Woman’ for Wolfmother, ‘Let It Die’ for Foo Fighters, ‘The Fallen’ for Franz Ferdinand and ‘Seven Nation Army’ for White Stripes. ‘No Line On The Horizon’ was due ...
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12.10.08U2 and Waits among Partridge mournersU2 and Waits among Partridge mourners 09:10 | Wednesday December 10, 2008 By Paul Williams U2 and Tom Waits were among the many dozens of mourners attending the funeral of Coalition founder Rob Partridge. Partridge, who recommended the Irish band should be signed to Island Records and handled Waits’ PR for more than two decades, was remembered yesterday at a service at Golders Green crematorium conducted by humanist minister Mark Hayford. Partridge died aged 60 last month after a two-year battle with cancer. Staff past and present from Island Records, where Partridge was head of press from 1976 to 1991, were among those at the ...
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