C.i are parents who enhance the qualities of their children, even when mediocre, because they just can’t be objective towards them. Others, however, while loving them, are able to clearly recognize their strengths and weaknesses. It is not always easy to distinguish with one’s own “creatures“, Even if these are … songs.
Bono, leader of the U2, however, is part of this second category, that is, the “lucid and rational”. The Irish singer, 61, has been the lead singer of U2 for 46 yearsi, writing and singing many of the hit singles of the hugely popular rock group, which has sold over time beyond two hundred million records.
Bono in 2020 in New York City (Photo by Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
But, today, it turns out that Bono actually feels a lot of shame for some of the songs written for the group, as he revealed in an interview on the Hollywood Reporter podcast Awards Chatter. To report it is the New York Post.
Bono doesn’t even like the name “U2”
The target of his annoyance, even before the songs, is the name of the band itself. “I really don’t like it“, he has declared. “In our heads was the spy plane, the U-boat, the name seemed to us futuristic. But I don’t like today, even though Paul McGuinness, our first manager, said “Look it’s a nice name, it will look good on a shirt, a letter and a number “”.
But Bono still doesn’t like it, just as he doesn’t like the name either Beatles, because “I didn’t realize that the Beatles were a bad pun“.
U2’s Bono and Adam Clayton in concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden (Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images for NLM)
Bono between the songs saves Miss Sarajevo And Vertigo
Turning to the songs, Bono said that when he’s in the car and on the radio they play some of their songs, “I become that color that in Dublin we call “scarlet”“, he said, adding that he always feels “so embarrassed“.
If he were to save one of his songs, however, that would be “Miss Sarajevo, with Luciano Pavarotti. That song is genuina, but most of the others make me shiver, ”he said. Among the songs that make him most proud, however, «there is Vertigo“.
Below, the concert in Mexico City.
Hypercritical about his voice
Finally, Bono is hypercritical also about his voice. “I became a singer only recently, ”he added. “Perhaps some people haven’t even noticed and I understand it ».
He also recalled a time when the singer Robert Palmer he said to the U2 bass player, Adam Clayton, in the ’80s: «Could you tell your singer to tone it down? He would do all of us a favor who have to listen to him“.
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