Bono

For other uses, see Bono (disambiguation).

Bono

Bono in 2009
Background information
Birth name Paul David Hewson
Also known as Bono, Bono Vox
Born 10 May 1960
Dublin, Ireland
Origin Finglas,[1] County Dublin, Ireland
Genres Rock, post-punk, alternative rock
Occupation(s) Musician, singer-songwriter, venture capitalist, businessman
Instruments Vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
Years active 1976–present
Associated acts U2, Passengers
Website u2.com
Notable instruments

Gretsch Irish Falcon
Gretsch Country Club


Bono's signature

Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/), is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.[2] He is best recognized as the frontman of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2.[3][4][5] Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, frequently using religious, social, and political themes.[6][7] During U2's early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to their rebellious and spiritual tone.[6] As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with the other members.[4][6]

Outside the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists,[8][9][10] is managing director and a managing partner of Elevation Partners,[11] and has refurbished and owns the Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge.[12][13] Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red.[4][14] He has organised and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians.[14][15][16] Bono has been praised and criticised for his activism and involvement with U2.[17][18][19]

Bono was granted an honorary knighthood by Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom for "his services to the music industry and for his humanitarian work", and, with Bill and Melinda Gates, was named Time Person of the Year in 2005,[17][20][21] among other awards and nominations. On 17 July 2013, the BBC announced that Bono had been made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters).

Early life

Bono was born in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 10 May 1960.[22] He was raised in the Northside suburb of Finglas[1] with his brother (who is eight years older than Bono) by their mother, Iris (née Rankin), a member of the Church of Ireland, and their father, Brendan Robert "Bob" Hewson, a Roman Catholic.[3][4] His parents initially agreed that the first child would be raised Anglican and the second Catholic.[23] Although Bono was the second child, he also attended Church of Ireland services with his mother and brother.[23]

The hearing aid shop, Bonavox, that provided Hewson with the nickname "Bono Vox".

He went to the local primary Glasnevin National School.[24] Bono was 14 when his mother died on 10 September 1974 after suffering a cerebral aneurysm at her father's funeral.[4] Many U2 songs, including "I Will Follow", "Mofo", "Out of Control", "Lemon" and "Tomorrow" focus on the loss of his mother.[4][25][26]

Bono attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, a multi denominational school in Clontarf. During his childhood and adolescence, Bono and his friends were part of a surrealist street gang called "Lypton Village". Bono met one of his closest friends, Guggi, in Lypton Village.[27] The gang had a ritual of nickname-giving. Bono had several names: first, he was "Steinhegvanhuysenolegbangbangbang",[27] then just "Huyseman", followed by "Houseman", "Bon Murray", "Bono Vox of O'Connell Street", and finally just "Bono".[4] "Bono Vox" is an alteration of Bonavox, a Latin phrase which translates to "good voice". It is said he was nicknamed "Bono Vox" by his friend Gavin Friday. He initially disliked the name; however, when he learned it translated to "good voice", he accepted it. Hewson has been known as "Bono" since the late 1970s. Although he uses Bono as his stage name, close family and friends also refer to him as Bono, including fellow band members.[4]

After he left school, his father Bob Hewson, told him he could live at home for one year but if he was not able to pay his own way, he would have to leave the house.[27]

Personal life

Bono is married to Alison Hewson (née Stewart).[5] The couple have four children: daughters Jordan (born 10 May 1989) and Memphis Eve (7 July 1991) and sons Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q (17 August 1999) and John Abraham (20 May 2001).[28]

Bono is almost never seen in public without sunglasses due to glaucoma.[29] During a Rolling Stone interview he stated:

[I have] very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.[30]

In 2002, he was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Britons in a poll conducted among the general public,[31] despite the fact he is Irish. In May 2010, Bono suffered a spinal injury while preparing for a U2 tour, and was taken to a German clinic in Munich for emergency neurosurgery.[32][33] The North American leg of the tour was postponed and rescheduled for 2011.[34][35] In 2004, Bono was given an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Pennsylvania.[36] Bono was named one of the 17 Irish artists to be proud of by the Irish Post on 9 April 2013.[37] Time magazine ranked him at the 8th place on its list of the "Most Influential Celebrities" in 2013; he was the only person from the music industry in the Top 10.[38]

In the late 1980s or early '90s, Bono bought a top-floor duplex apartment in Manhattan's San Remo apartment building from Steve Jobs for $15 million. Jobs had renovated it for his own use, but never moved in.[39]

Bono's work as an activist, which is due largely to his Christian beliefs,[40] began in earnest when, inspired by Live Aid, he travelled to Ethiopia to work in a feeding camp with his wife Alison and the charity World Vision, an Evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organisation.[40] With regard to Bono's 2013 declarations in interviews published and videotaped of his faith in Jesus Christ,[41] he states that Christ was either who he said he was, or he is "a complete and utter nut case".[42][43] As early as 2005, Bono was invoking this argument,[44][45] identified as the "Lewis trilemma".

On 16 November 2014, Bono was involved in a "high energy bicycle accident" when he attempted to avoid another rider. Bono was rushed to NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center's Emergency Department and underwent "multiple X-rays and CAT scans" followed by five hours of surgery. Bono suffered fractures of the shoulder blade, humerus, orbit and pinky finger. Orthopedic trauma surgeon Dean Lorich, MD, stated that "[Bono] was taken emergently to the operating room...where the elbow was washed out and debrided, a nerve trapped in the break was moved and the bone was repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws."[46] Bono posted to U2's official web site, "As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again," as reported in Cycling Weekly.[47]

Musical career

U2

A black and white image of a light-skinned man singing into a microphone. He is visible from the chest up and wears a sleeveless black shirt with an opened sleeveless white vest overtop. A small cross is worn around his neck. His black hair is styled into a mullet. The man looks past the camera to the left. A mixture of trees and sky are visible in the background.
Bono on stage in 1983
Main article: U2

On 25 September 1976, Bono, David Evans ("The Edge"), his brother Dik and Adam Clayton responded to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band. The band had occasional jam sessions in which they did covers of other bands. Tired of long guitar solos and hard rock, Bono wanted to play Rolling Stones and Beach Boys songs. Unfortunately the band could not play covers very well, so they started writing their own songs.

The band went by the name "Feedback" for a few months, before changing to "The Hype" later on. After Dik Evans left the group to join another local band, the Virgin Prunes, the remaining four officially changed the name from "The Hype" to "U2". Initially Bono sang, played guitar and wrote the band's songs. He said of his early guitar playing in a 1982 interview, "When we started out I was the guitar player, along with the Edge—except I couldn't play guitar. I still can't. I was such a lousy guitar player that one day they broke it to me that maybe I should sing instead. I had tried before, but I had no voice at all. I remember the day I found I could sing. I said, 'Oh, that's how you do it.'".[48] When The Edge's guitar playing improved, Bono was relegated mostly to the microphone, although he occasionally still plays rhythm guitar and harmonica. As of 2006, Bono has taken piano lessons from his children's piano teacher as a means to improve his songwriting.[49]

Bono (right) with Sting during A Conspiracy of Hope in 1986

Bono writes the lyrics for almost all U2 songs, which are often rich in social and political themes.[6] His lyrics frequently allude to a religious connection or meaning, evident in songs such as "Gloria" from the band's album October and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" from The Joshua Tree.[7] During the band's early years, Bono was known for his rebellious tone which turned to political anger and rage during the band's War, The Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum eras.[6] Following the Enniskillen bombing that left 11 dead and 63 injured on 8 November 1987, the Provisional IRA paramilitaries threatened to kidnap Bono.[4] IRA supporters also attacked a vehicle carrying the band members.[4] These acts were in response to his speech condemning the Remembrance Day Bombing during a live performance of "Sunday Bloody Sunday".[4] The singer had been advised to cut his on-stage outburst from the Rattle and Hum film, but it was left in.[50] Also featured in the film is footage of Bono spray-painting a monument during an outdoor performance; Bono was forced to pay a fine.

Bono as his alter-ego "The Fly" on the Zoo TV Tour in 1992

U2's sound and focus dramatically changed with their 1991 album, Achtung Baby. Bono's lyrics became more personal, inspired by experiences related to the private lives of the members of the band.[4][6] During the band's Zoo TV Tour several of his stage personas were showcased; these included "The Fly", a stereotypical rock star, the "Mirror Ball Man", a parody of American televangelists, and "Mr. MacPhisto", a combination of a corrupted rock star and the Devil.[4][6]

During performances he attempts to interact with the crowd as often as possible and is known for pulling audience members onto the stage or moving himself down to the physical level of the audience.[4] This has happened on several occasions including at the Live Aid concert in 1985 where he leapt off the stage and pulled a woman from the crowd to dance with her as the band played "Bad", and in 2005 during U2's Vertigo Tour stop in Chicago, where he pulled a boy onto the stage during the song "An Cat Dubh / Into the Heart".[4][51] Bono has often allowed fans to come on stage and perform songs with the band.

Bono has won numerous awards with U2, including 22 Grammy awards and the 2003 Golden Globe award for best original song, "The Hands That Built America", for the film Gangs of New York.[18][52] During the live broadcast of the Golden Globe ceremony, Bono called the award "really, really fucking brilliant!".[53] In response, the Parents Television Council condemned Bono for his profanity and started a campaign for its members to file complaints with the FCC.[54] Although Bono's use of "fuck" violated FCC indecency standards, the FCC refused to fine NBC because the network did not receive advance notice of the consequences of broadcasting such profanity and the profanity in question was not used in its literal sexual meaning.[55] In apparent reaction to the refusal,[56] a group of congressmen introduced House Resolution 3687, the "Clean Airwaves Act",[57] in 8 December 2003,[58] aiming to amend section 1464 of title 18 of the United States Code to provide an explicit list of profane words and phrases and remove ambiguity that could enable certain uses of the phrases to be allowed.[59] The bill was not enacted.[58] The incident has had a long-term impact in the handling of profanity on live broadcasts.[57]

U2 performing at Madison Square Garden in November 2005.

In 2005, the U2 band members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in their first year of eligibility.[60] In November 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Bono the 32nd-greatest singer of all time.[61]

Bono and his bandmates were criticised in 2007 for moving part of their multi-million euro song catalogue from Ireland to Amsterdam six months before Ireland ended a tax exemption on musicians' royalties.[19][62] Under Dutch tax law, bands are subject to low to non-existent tax rates.[19] U2's manager, Paul McGuinness, stated that the arrangement is legal and customary and businesses often seek to minimise their tax burdens.[19] The move prompted criticisms in the Irish parliament.[63][64] The band later responded by stating that approximately 95% of their business took place outside Ireland, and that they were taxed globally because of this.[65] Bono was one of several wealthy figures whose tax arrangements were singled out for criticism in a report by the charity Christian Aid in 2008.[66]

Collaborations

In addition to his work with U2, he has collaborated with Frank Sinatra,[8] Johnny Cash,[9] Willie Nelson,[67] Luciano Pavarotti,[68] Sinéad O'Connor,[69] Green Day, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison,[70] Bob Dylan,[10] Tina Turner,[71] B.B. King and Zucchero.[72][73][74] He has recorded with Ray Charles,[75] Quincy Jones, Kirk Franklin,[76] Bruce Springsteen,[77] Tony Bennett,[78] Clannad,[79] The Corrs,[80] Wyclef Jean,[81] Kylie Minogue,[82] Carl Perkins,[83] Jay-Z and Rihanna, as well as reportedly completing an unreleased duet with Jennifer Lopez.[84] On Robbie Robertson's 1987 eponymous album, he plays bass guitar and vocals.[85] On Michael Hutchence's 1999 posthumous eponymous album, Bono completed a recording of "Slide Away" as a duet with Hutchence.[86]

Bono and The Edge also wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. On 25 May 2011, a single titled "Rise Above 1" by Reeve Carney featuring Bono and The Edge was released digitally.[87] The music video was released on 28 July 2011.[88]

Vocal range

Bono has a wide tenor vocal range since the beginning of the band. His highest note was reached in 1984 in the studio version of "Bad", recording a C♯5, like in the song "Love Rescues Me"; however, his most notable reached note was a B5, which can be heard in songs like "Pride (In the Name of Love)", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight", "Magnificent", "Vertigo" and "Ultraviolet".

Nowadays, he can reach a C5 (his can be heard in the current version of "Bad", due to the fact that they lowered the song one semitone). Bono is also characterized by his use of falsetto, reaching a G6 in a live version of "One" in the 90s. He has also reached Pavarotti's notes in "Miss Sarajevo" during Vertigo Tour and in 2010 during U2 360° Tour, reaching a G♯5. Bono's vocal range in live performances between 1984 and 2010 was from C#2 to G#5.

Philanthropic work

Bono with then President Lula da Silva of Brazil in 2006

Bono has become one of the world's best-known philanthropic performers and was named the most politically effective celebrity of all time by the National Journal.[89][90][91] He has been dubbed, "the face of fusion philanthropy",[92] both for his success enlisting powerful allies from a diverse spectrum of leaders in government, religious institutions, philanthropic organisations, popular media, and the business world, as well as for spearheading new organizational networks that bind global humanitarian relief with geopolitical activism and corporate commercial enterprise.[93]

In a 1986 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Bono explained that he was motivated to become involved in social and political causes by seeing one of the Secret Policeman's Ball benefit shows, staged by John Cleese and producer Martin Lewis for the human-rights organisation Amnesty International in 1979.[94] "I saw 'The Secret Policeman's Ball' and it became a part of me. It sowed a seed...". In 2001, Bono arranged for U2 to videotape a special live performance for that year's Amnesty benefit show.

In 1984, Bono sang on the Band Aid single "Do They Know it's Christmas?/Feed the World" (a role that was reprised on the 2004 Band Aid 20 and 2014 Band Aid 30 singles of the same name).[95] Geldof and Bono later collaborated to organise the 2005 Live 8 project, where U2 also performed.[16] Bono and U2 performed on Amnesty's Conspiracy of Hope tour of the United States in 1986 alongside Sting.[15] U2 also performed in the Band Aid and Live Aid projects, organised by Bob Geldof.[96]

Bono and then-U.S. President George W. Bush in 2006

Since 1999, Bono has become increasingly involved in campaigning for third-world debt relief and raising awareness of the plight of Africa, including the AIDS pandemic. In the past decade Bono has met with several influential politicians, including former United States President George W. Bush and former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.[97] During a March 2002 visit to the White House, after President Bush unveiled a $5 billion aid package, he accompanied the President for a speech on the White House lawn where he stated, "This is an important first step, and a serious and impressive new level of commitment. "...This must happen urgently, because this is a crisis.".[97] In May of that year, Bono took US Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill on a four-country tour of Africa. In contrast, in 2005, Bono spoke on CBC Radio, alleging then Prime Minister Martin was being slow about increasing Canada's foreign aid.[98]

In 2004, he was awarded the Pablo Neruda International Presidential Medal of Honour from the Government of Chile.[99] Time Magazine named Bono one of the "100 Most Influential People" in its May 2004 special issue[100] and again in the 2006 Time 100 special issue.[101] In 2005, Time, named Bono, with Bill and Melinda Gates, a Person of the Year.[21] Also in 2005, he received the Portuguese Order of Liberty for his humanitarian work.[102] That year Bono was also among the first three recipients of the TED Prize, which grants each winner "A wish to change the world".[103] Bono made three wishes,[104] the first two related to the ONE campaign and the third that every hospital, health clinic and school in Ethiopia should be connected to the Internet. TED rejected the third wish as being a sub-optimal way for TED to help Africa[104] and instead organised a TED conference in Arusha, Tanzania. Bono attended the conference, which was held in June 2007.

In 2005 he recorded a version of "Don't Give Up" with Alicia Keys, with proceeds going to Keep a Child Alive.[105] On 3 April 2005, Bono paid a personal tribute to John Paul II and called him "a street fighter and a wily campaigner on behalf of the world's poor. We would never have gotten the debts of 23 countries completely cancelled without him.".[106] Bono spoke in advance of President Bush at the 54th Annual National Prayer Breakfast, held at the Hilton Washington Hotel on 2 February 2006. In a speech containing biblical references, Bono encouraged the care of the socially and economically depressed. His comments included a call for an extra one percent tithe of the United States' national budget. He brought his Christian views into harmony with other faiths by noting that Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writings all call for the care of the widow, orphan, and stranger. President Bush received praise from the singer-activist for the United States' increase in aid for the African continent. Bono continued by saying much work is left to be done to be a part of God's ongoing purposes.[14]

Bono at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, 2008.

Also in 2005, Bono, Ali Hewson and designer Rogan Gregory co-founded the EDUN fashion label ("nude" spelled backwards, to suggest both "natural" and the Garden of Eden).[107] It was intended to help bring about positive change in Africa through a fair trade-based relationship rather than by direct aid.[108][109]

On 15 December 2005, Paul Theroux published an op-ed in the New York Times called The Rock Star's Burden (cf. Kipling's The White Man's Burden) that criticised stars such as Bono, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie, labelling them as "mythomaniacs, people who wish to convince the world of their worth.". Theroux, who lived in Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, added that "the impression that Africa is fatally troubled and can be saved only by outside help—not to mention celebrities and charity concerts—is a destructive and misleading conceit.".[110] Elsewhere, Bono has been criticised, along with other celebrities, for "[ignoring] the legitimate voices of Africa and [turning] a global movement for justice into a grand orgy of narcissistic philanthropy".[111]

In 2007, Bono was named in the UK's New Years Honours List as an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[20][112] He was formally granted knighthood on 29 March 2007 in a ceremony at the residence of British Ambassador David Reddaway in Dublin, Ireland.[113]

Bono also received the NAACP Image Award's Chairman's Award in 2007.[114] On 24 May 2007, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia announced that Bono would receive the Philadelphia Liberty Medal on 27 September 2007 for his work to end world poverty and hunger.[115] On 28 September 2007, in accepting the Liberty Medal, Bono said, "When you are trapped by poverty, you are not free. When trade laws prevent you from selling the food you grew, you are not free ... When you are a monk in Burma this very week, barred from entering a temple because of your gospel of peace ... well, then none of us are truly free". Bono donated the $100,000 prize to the organisation. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala accepted the award for the Washington-based Debt AIDS Trade Africa.[116]

The organisation DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) was established in 2002 by Bono and Bobby Shriver, along with activists from the Jubilee 2000 Drop the Debt Campaign.[117] DATA aims to eradicate poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa.[117] DATA encourages Americans to contact senators and other legislators and elected officials to voice their opinions.[117]

Bono was a special guest editor of the July 2007 issue of Vanity Fair magazine. The issue was named "The Africa Issue: Politics & Power" and featured an assortment of 20 different covers, with photographs by Annie Leibovitz of a number of prominent celebrities, political leaders, and philanthropists. Each one showcased in the issue for their contributions to the humanitarian relief in Africa.[118]

Bono meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in 2010.

In an article in Bloomberg Markets in March 2007, journalists Richard Tomlinson and Fergal O'Brien noted that Bono used his band's 2006 Vertigo world tour to promote his ONE Campaign while at the same time "U2 was racking up $389 million in gross ticket receipts, making Vertigo the second-most lucrative tour of all time, according to Billboard magazine ... Revenue from the Vertigo tour is funnelled through companies that are mostly registered in Ireland and structured to minimise taxes.".[119]

Further criticism came in November 2007, when Bono's various charity campaigns were targeted by Jobs Selasie, head of African Aid Action. Selasie claimed that these charities had increased corruption and dependency in Africa because they failed to work with African entrepreneurs and grassroots organisations, and as a result, Africa has become more dependent on international handouts.[120] Bono responded to his critics in Times Online on 19 February 2006, calling them "cranks carping from the sidelines. A lot of them wouldn't know what to do if they were on the field. They're the party who will always be in opposition so they'll never have to take responsibility for decisions because they know they'll never be able to implement them.".[121]

In November 2007, Bono was honoured by NBC Nightly News as someone "making a difference" in the world.[122] He and anchor Brian Williams had travelled to Africa in May 2007 to showcase the humanitarian crisis on the continent.[123] On 11 December 2008, Bono was given the annual Man of Peace prize, awarded by several Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Paris, France.[124]

Product Red is another initiative begun by Bono and Bobby Shriver to raise money for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.[125] Bobby Shriver has been announced as the CEO of Product Red, whilst Bono is currently an active public spokesperson for the brand. Product Red is a brand that is licensed to partner companies, such as American Express, Apple, Converse, Motorola, Microsoft, Dell, The Gap and Giorgio Armani.[126] Each company creates a product with the Product Red logo and a percentage of the profits from the sale of these labelled products will go to the Global Fund.[127]

Bono is the subject of The Front Man, a book by Irish journalist Harry Browne, which criticises his embrace of capitalism and neoliberalism.

Other endeavours

Bono performing with U2 in 2011

In 1992, Bono, along with the Edge, bought and refurbished Dublin's two-star 70-bedroom Clarence Hotel, and converted it into a five-star 49-bedroom hotel.[13] The Edge and Bono have recorded several songs together, exclusive of the band. They also worked on the score for the 2011 rock musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.[128]

In May 2007, MTV reported that Bono was writing the foreword for a collection of poetry entitled "Third Rail".[129] The book's foreword details the meanings of its poetry, stating "The poets who fill the pews here have come to testify, to bear witness to the mysterious power of rock and roll...Rock and roll is truly a broad church, but each lights a candle to their vision of what it is.".[129] The collection, edited by poet Jonathan Wells, contains titles such as "Punk rock You're My Big Crybaby", "Variation on a Theme by Whitesnake" and "Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (After Ezra Pound).".[129]

Bono is on the board of the Elevation Partners private-equity firm, which attempted to purchase Eidos Interactive in 2005 and has since gone on to invest in other entertainment businesses.[12][130] Bono has invested in the Forbes Media group in the US through Elevation Partners. Elevation Partners became the first outsider to invest in the company, taking a minority stake in Forbes Media LLC, a new company encompassing the 89-year-old business which includes Forbes magazine, the Forbes.com website and other assets. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but reports said the stake was worth about €194 million ($250m).[131][132][133] The firm also owns a 1.5% stake in social networking site Facebook, originally purchased for $210m.[11] Bono's stake was valued at approximately US$ 1 billion in February 2012.[134]

Filmography

For U2 concert releases and music videos, see U2 videography.
Year Film Role Notes
1988 Rattle and Hum Bono Rockumentary
1998 The Simpsons Himself TV series; one episode, "Trash of the Titans"
1999 Classic Albums Bono TV series; one episode, "The Joshua Tree"
Entropy Himself
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel Man in the hotel lobby Uncredited cameo appearance, original storywriter, producer
Sightings of Bono Himself Short film
2005 Entourage Himself TV series; one episode, "I Love You Too"
2007 Rewind Bono Rockumentary
Across The Universe Dr. Robert
American Idol Himself TV series; "Idol Gives Back"
2008 U2 3D Bono 3D concert film
2009 Entourage Himself TV series; one episode, "Give a Little Bit"
Brüno Himself Mockumentary comedy film
2011 From the Sky Down Bono Rockumentary
Anton Corbijn Inside Out Bono
2012 B.B. King – The Life of Riley Bono Documentary
The Resurrection of Victor Jara Bono
2013 Muscle Shoals Bono Documentary

In addition to his acting credits Bono has contributed music to films, as part of U2 and other collaborations. In Across the Universe he sang The Beatles songs "I Am the Walrus" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

See also


References

Footnotes
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