I suggested facetiously that they might consider renaming the band U2+1, or, even better, Me2, but I think they'd heard all those gags before. Salman Rushdie.
What a privilege it was to return to Mount Temple where our journey first began, 50 years later, and share the stage with the extraordinary young musicians of Music Generation. ❤️
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Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….
Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...
Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.
To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.
When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.
Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.
….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.
May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.
Bono
@2010MisterChip Si en la Nochevieja de 2005 se me aparece una persona del futuro con el Almanaque Deportivo en la mano, y veo que en los próximos veinte años vamos a ganar dos Mundiales y tres Eurocopas de fútbol, y dos Mundiales y cuatro Eurobaskets, me da un parraque. #Worldcup2026
ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA DEL MUNDO MASCULINA.
ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA DEL MUNDO FEMENINA.
ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA CONTINENTAL.
ESPAÑA ES VIGENTE CAMPEONA OLÍMPICA.
NO BUSQUEN PRECEDENTES DE ESTE HISTÓRICO POKER.
NO EXISTEN.
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👋🏼💫 Hola, estrella.
Has estado 16 años sola, pero ya es hora de que tengas compañía encima de nuestro escudo.
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250 years. One unforgettable backdrop.
From city streets and small towns to deserts, coastlines and monuments, America’s landscapes have helped shape some of cinema’s most enduring stories. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸
Featured films: Field of Dreams, La La Land, The Florida Project, Easy Rider, The Dark Knight, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Past Lives, No Country for Old Men, Forrest Gump, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Thelma & Louise, Do the Right Thing, The Way We Were, Rocky