Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool

[Howth Head]

I hear ya...and I've little time for being lectured by musicians and/or artists and actors. But having seen Springsteen five times last year - and the three RDS shows in 2023, I don't recall any such diatribes. In fact, he hardly spoke - apart from dedicating, "a prayer for my country" before playing 'Long Walk Home.' (or was it 'Land of Hope and Dreams?')

Back in 2012 when he was in the RDS - he had a few lines about, "high times on Wall Street - hard times on Main Street," usually before doing 'The River.' (I've no problem with him being wealthy - in many ways he's the personification and manifestation of the American Dream.)

 

[Purple]

@Howth Head, if anyone is "America's Bard" it's him and not Dylan. He is well aware of the irony of a rich man who never did a days work as a blue collar worker singing about the plight of the working man but there's an element of put your money where your mouth is and he doesn't.

Ironically most people seem to hate Bono who does actually invest his time and resources in trying to make the world a better place but that's probably because he's Irish and suffers from the sin of being successful.

Anyway, back to Liverpool, who will probably win the Premier League title this year.

 

[jimmij]

Bono and Geldof's silence on the plight of the Palestinians has been deafening.

'There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of them at the moment.' - Paul Theroux

Accepting the US Medal of Honor alongside war criminal Hilary Clinton from war criminal Joe Biden puts the tin hat on it for me.

 

[Purple]

Bono and Geldof's silence on the plight of the Palestinians has been deafening.

'There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of them at the moment.' - Paul Theroux

Accepting the US Medal of Honor alongside war criminal Hilary Clinton from war criminal Joe Biden puts the tin hat on it for me.

 

[Salvadore]

Ironically most people seem to hate Bono who does actually invest his time and resources in trying to make the world a better place but that's probably because he's Irish and suffers from the sin of being successful.

There’s also a bit of “luvvies know best” about Bono and inconsistencies between wha he preaches and what he does.

On the Irish begrudgery thing, interestingly I saw a programme on Trump a couple of weeks ago that opined that Americans are the opposite. They are overly deferential to rich and successful people to the detriment of any critical analysis.

Anyway, Liverpool. No win in two games now. Poor.

 

[Deiseblue]

Bono famously described a difference between the US and Ireland .
In America a guy looks at the Mansion on the hill and thinks someday I’m going to emulate that guy.
In Ireland the guy looking up thinks someday I’m going to get that b——-d

 

[jimmij]

U pay tax 2?

 

[mathepac]

In the words of Lieber & Stoller,

[EDIT*] "Paul's a singer
He stands up if he plays the piano
In a nightclub
Paul's a singer
He sings songs for the lost and lonely
His job is entertaining folks
Singing songs and telling jokes
In a nightclub..."

He'd do well to remember that, as would we.

He seems to have tried to re-invent himself as some kind of latter-day Messiah having missed the buses that were The Beatles' Concert for Bangladesh and Geldoff & Midge's Live Aid. I find him entertaining, but his struggle for living canonisation is futile and a bit pathetic. Good auld singer though.

*Paul scans better than Bono, closer to the original words.