PLEBA Misc U2 News and Articles #2 - Page 28

lauramullen · 10-16-2009, 04:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by last unicorn

They should do the closet thing with Bono and Edge:

Bono: The same denim shirt 100 times
Edge: The same plaid shirt 100 times

So True

BonoFox1 · 10-16-2009, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JessicaAnn

A story only a PLEBAn could love...Yummy Mummy Club

Erica Ehm: Exposed!
Backstage with Bono and Jann Arden

October 16, 2009

I need to get this off my chest. I recently hosted another TV special for Bravo - Live at the Concert Hall with Jann Arden. What happens onstage is for everyone to see. But what goes on backstage is a whole other story.

I arrived early for makeup (which is rare because I am always 15 minutes behind schedule). But who doesn't like being pampered and beautified, especially by amazing makeup artist Lucky Bromhead. While Lucky was working on evening out my skin with some fancy primer, she casually dropped this bomb on me..and I quote, "I did U2's makeup this week for the Elvis Costello's Spectacle show".

Me: "Excuse me?" pushing her makeup brush away.

Lucky: "Yes, it was all kind of crazy. I walked into the makeup room and there was Bono singing along to his computer. He turns my way and asks what I thought. I was about to answer when I noticed The Edge sitting in the makeup chair behind the door. Then I realized I had walked into the makeup room while Bono was writing a song with the Edge."

Me: "What?? You were with Bono and you didn't call me???"

Lucky" "I wasn't allowed. I was sworn to secrecy. Anyway, Bono was standing there with no shirt on...

Me: "What??? No shirt on?"

Lucky "Yup, and I had to do some body make up on him to cover up his chest cuz he gets blotchy when he gets nervous and he was nervous being interviewed by Elvis Costello"

Me: "What??? He was nervous?"

Lucky: "Yes, he was. I did his makeup and he was a total gentleman, very genuine and down to earth. Then I had to do touch ups during the show when he would come backstage. There's wasn't alot of room backstage so we really had to squish close together."

As Lucky happily shared her story of makeup stardom, all I could think about was I AM SO JEALOUS. But I had to be quiet and pretend to be happy for her because Lucky had the power to make me look like a fashion model or an older version of me. I shut my mouth and listened to Lucky's tales of U2-dom.

When she finished my face, and worked her magic, making me look like myself only 1,000 times better, I looked her in the eye and told her point blank that I would never EVER forgive her for not inviting me to paint Bono's chest with makeup.

And then Jann Arden walked in to have her makeup done. We chattered on about her little dog, twitter, inspiration, parents, songwriting and her new CD Free. I forgot about Bono (for a while).

Time has passed and the pain of not getting a close up of Bono without his shirt is fading a bit. I'm slowly finding it in my heart to forgive Lucky. Because I'm now one degree of separation away from Bono, plus I have the coolest makeup artist in town. It's win/win. Almost.

OH WHAT A STORY!!! BONO CHEST!!

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dandysweets · 10-17-2009, 06:17 AM

I'm not exactly a fan of Paris Hilton, but at least, she's got a point - good going Paris:

Who was the greatest hero of the decade?
Bono, for all his accomplishments for the world. Not only is he an amazing singer and artist, but he dedicates his life to helping the less fortunate and to saving lives. He is such an inspiration to me as a philanthropist.

Q&A: Paris Hilton | Life and style | The Guardian

last unicorn · 10-17-2009, 10:43 AM

Ugh, I think the fact this is coming from Paris Hilton is actually a point against Bono.

OrARoundabout · 10-17-2009, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dandysweets

I'm not exactly a fan of Paris Hilton, but at least, she's got a point - good going Paris:

Who was the greatest hero of the decade?
Bono, for all his accomplishments for the world. Not only is he an amazing singer and artist, but he dedicates his life to helping the less fortunate and to saving lives. He is such an inspiration to me as a philanthropist.

Q&A: Paris Hilton | Life and style | The Guardian

Um...No

domo-kun · 10-17-2009, 05:03 PM

Rembers me of a backstage film i saw somewhere, and Paris was totally talking to Bono,
praising him to death, and Bono saying yeah, we should really do something together sometimes, really! but Bono (strangely) seemed in a bit of a rush.
I don't really have an opinion on her. She's just Paris..

BonoFox1 · 10-17-2009, 10:51 PM

I've seen her come out of the Los Angeles shows where one time as we were loitering around after a show she pulls out in her Bentley and stops on purpose for a few minutes to pose in her car for the paps...I dont care about her opinions but whateva!

last unicorn · 10-18-2009, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by domo-kun

Rembers me of a backstage film i saw somewhere, and Paris was totally talking to Bono,
praising him to death, and Bono saying yeah, we should really do something together sometimes, really! but Bono (strangely) seemed in a bit of a rush.
I don't really have an opinion on her. She's just Paris..

Bono is polite, he talks to everyonw. But what he thinks about these people is another story. I don't think he's too fond of someone who's just famous for ... nothing.

**ramblin rose** · 10-18-2009, 10:20 AM

Today's New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/opinion/18bono.html

Quote:

A FEW years ago, I accepted a Golden Globe award by barking out an expletive.

One imagines President Obama did the same when he heard about his Nobel, and not out of excitement.

When Mr. Obama takes the stage at Oslo City Hall this December, he won’t be the first sitting president to receive the peace prize, but he might be the most controversial. There’s a sense in some quarters of these not-so-United States that Norway, Europe and the World haven’t a clue about the real President Obama; instead, they fixate on a fantasy version of the president, a projection of what they hope and wish he is, and what they wish America to be.

Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So here’s why I think the virtual Obama is the real Obama, and why I think the man might deserve the hype. It starts with a quotation from a speech he gave at the United Nations last month:

“We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”

They’re not my words, they’re your president’s. If they’re not familiar, it’s because they didn’t make many headlines. But for me, these 36 words are why I believe Mr. Obama could well be a force for peace and prosperity — if the words signal action.

The millennium goals, for those of you who don’t know, are a persistent nag of a noble, global compact. They’re a set of commitments we all made nine years ago whose goal is to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Barack Obama wasn’t there in 2000, but he’s there now. Indeed he’s gone further — all the way, in fact. Halve it, he says, then end it.

Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America. Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view these 36 words, alongside the administration’s approach to fighting nuclear proliferation and climate change, improving relations in the Middle East and, by the way, creating jobs and providing health care at home, are rebranding in action.

These new steps — and those 36 words — remind the world that America is not just a country but an idea, a great idea about opportunity for all and responsibility to your fellow man.

All right ... I don’t speak for the rest of the world. Sometimes I think I do — but as my bandmates will quickly (and loudly) point out, I don’t even speak for one small group of four musicians. But I will venture to say that in the farthest corners of the globe, the president’s words are more than a pop song people want to hear on the radio. They are lifelines.

In dangerous, clangorous times, the idea of America rings like a bell (see King, M. L., Jr., and Dylan, Bob). It hits a high note and sustains it without wearing on your nerves. (If only we all could.) This was the melody line of the Marshall Plan and it’s resonating again. Why? Because the world sees that America might just hold the keys to solving the three greatest threats we face on this planet: extreme poverty, extreme ideology and extreme climate change. The world senses that America, with renewed global support, might be better placed to defeat this axis of extremism with a new model of foreign policy.

It is a strangely unsettling feeling to realize that the largest Navy, the fastest Air Force, the fittest strike force, cannot fully protect us from the ghost that is terrorism .... Asymmetry is the key word from Kabul to Gaza .... Might is not right.

I think back to a phone call I got a couple of years ago from Gen. James Jones. At the time, he was retiring from the top job at NATO; the idea of a President Obama was a wild flight of the imagination.

General Jones was curious about the work many of us were doing in economic development, and how smarter aid — embodied in initiatives like President George W. Bush’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief and the Millennium Challenge Corporation — was beginning to save lives and change the game for many countries. Remember, this was a moment when America couldn’t get its cigarette lighted in polite European nations like Norway; but even then, in the developing world, the United States was still seen as a positive, even transformative, presence.

The general and I also found ourselves talking about what can happen when the three extremes — poverty, ideology and climate — come together. We found ourselves discussing the stretch of land that runs across the continent of Africa, just along the creeping sands of the Sahara — an area that includes Sudan and northern Nigeria. He also agreed that many people didn’t see that the Horn of Africa — the troubled region that encompasses Somalia and Ethiopia — is a classic case of the three extremes becoming an unholy trinity (I’m paraphrasing) and threatening peace and stability around the world.

The military man also offered me an equation. Stability = security + development.

In an asymmetrical war, he said, the emphasis had to be on making American foreign policy conform to that formula.

Enter Barack Obama.

If that last line still seems like a joke to you ... it may not for long.

Mr. Obama has put together a team of people who believe in this equation. That includes the general himself, now at the National Security Council; the vice president, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the Republican defense secretary; and a secretary of state, someone with a long record of championing the cause of women and girls living in poverty, who is now determined to revolutionize health and agriculture for the world’s poor. And it looks like the bipartisan coalition in Congress that accomplished so much in global development over the past eight years is still holding amid rancor on pretty much everything else. From a development perspective, you couldn’t dream up a better dream team to pursue peace in this way, to rebrand America.

The president said that he considered the peace prize a call to action. And in the fight against extreme poverty, it’s action, not intentions, that counts. That stirring sentence he uttered last month will ring hollow unless he returns to next year’s United Nations summit meeting with a meaningful, inclusive plan, one that gets results for the billion or more people living on less than $1 a day. Difficult. Very difficult. But doable.

The Nobel Peace Prize is the rest of the world saying, “Don’t blow it.”

But that’s not just directed at Mr. Obama. It’s directed at all of us. What the president promised was a “global plan,” not an American plan. The same is true on all the other issues that the Nobel committee cited, from nuclear disarmament to climate change — none of these things will yield to unilateral approaches. They’ll take international cooperation and American leadership.

The president has set himself, and the rest of us, no small task.

That’s why America shouldn’t turn up its national nose at popularity contests. In the same week that Mr. Obama won the Nobel, the United States was ranked as the most admired country in the world, leapfrogging from seventh to the top of the Nation Brands Index survey — the biggest jump any country has ever made. Like the Nobel, this can be written off as meaningless ... a measure of Mr. Obama’s celebrity (and we know what people think of celebrities).

But an America that’s tired of being the world’s policeman, and is too pinched to be the world’s philanthropist, could still be the world’s partner. And you can’t do that without being, well, loved. Here come the letters to the editor, but let me just say it: Americans are like singers — we just a little bit, kind of like to be loved. The British want to be admired; the Russians, feared; the French, envied. (The Irish, we just want to be listened to.) But the idea of America, from the very start, was supposed to be contagious enough to sweep up and enthrall the world.

And it is. The world wants to believe in America again because the world needs to believe in America again. We need your ideas — your idea — at a time when the rest of the world is running out of them.

U2Fanatic4ever · 10-18-2009, 10:34 AM

as always well said Bono! words of poetry, words that mean something.

I love reading his op-ed pieces..

now it's time that Bono gets his Nobel Peace Prize... he certainly deserves it.. I hope this happens one day..

dandysweets · 10-18-2009, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ramblin rose

Today's New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/opinion/18bono.html

Well done Bono. I'm really happy when I hear about people who support Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize because, controversial decision or not, I definitely think he deserves it.

OrARoundabout · 10-18-2009, 11:02 AM

Nice article Bono

last unicorn · 10-18-2009, 11:23 AM

I think Bono touches some really interesting, still controversial points in this article. I'm glad he's writing about the critisism as well instead of just praising Obama. The main debate here is whether the prize has been awarded too early and what the political motives of the comité were. I think the "Don't blow it" line is the most important one in this article. The prize is an honour for Obama, but puts him under extreme pressure.

vertpomme · 10-19-2009, 04:03 AM

I think the problem that many people have with Obama
getting the Nobel Peace Prize is that they don't understand
how the Nobel committee decides to award it. Technically, the
prize can never be awarded too early or too late. It is
not awarded solely for merit or good deeds that have
already been done. In fact, many people who do good deeds
go completely ignored by the Nobel committee simply
because the individual has already gotten enough attention
for what they have achieved (this is the reason I do not
think that Bono will ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize).

According to the Nobel Foundation website the Nobel
Peace Prize is usually awarded "to encourage those
who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes
at critical moments." Both Obama and the Dalai Lama
were awarded the prize so that they would be challenged
to see their efforts through to the end, to inspire them
to continue no matter what obstacles get in their way.

In my opinion, Bono's recent Times Op-Ed has done
something excellent for the citizens of my country; much
like the Nobel committee, the last three paragraphs
challenge us to see our president's efforts through, to aid
him in reaching these goals, to strive via our own deeds
to make the world a better place. Thanks, Bono.

I assure you: some of us are listening.

BonoFox1 · 10-19-2009, 09:55 AM

Lou Reed, U2, Elvis Costello Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame | undercover.com.au, Music, News, Entertainment

Lou Reed, U2, Elvis Costello Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame
by Paul Cashmere - October 18 2009
photo by Ros O'Gorman

The 2010 Songwriter Hall of Fame nominations have been announced with Lou Reed, U2 and Elvis Costello up for the award.

About Elvis Costello, the Songwriter Hall of Fame said, “One of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the modern rock era, Elvis Costello burst upon the scene in 1977 at the height of the New Wave and has been writing songs—many of which have been covered by artists from Linda Ronstadt to Johnny Cash?at full throttle ever since. But rock is only one of the many genres he has conquered. The indefatigable Costello has also written country and classical music while collaborating with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney and earning his way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”.

For Lou, “Lou Reed began the songwriting side of his influential music career as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records, delivering a hit in 1964 with the novelty dance hit “The Ostrich.” The Primitives were formed as a band to support it, and also included Welsh musician John Cale, with whom Reed would form the Velvet Underground in 1965 along with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. The historic group helped pave the way for the punk rock explosion of the 1970s, with songs like “Heroin” and “Sweet Jane.” They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, long after Reed had established himself as a major solo singer-songwriter thanks to such titles as “Walk On The Wild Side” and “Dirty Boulevard.””

**About U2, “Together as U2, Bono (Paul Hewson), The Edge (David Evans), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen have enjoyed unprecedented success as songwriters, recording artists and concert performers. Their catalog includes two No. 1 hits, “With Or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Other hits have been used in movies (“All I Want Is You” from “Reality Bites,” “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” from “Batman Forever”) and have tributed Martin Luther King (“Pride [In The Name Of Love]”) and Billie Holiday (“Angel Of Harlem”).”**

The Songwriter Hall of Fame is broken into two categories – performing and non-performing songwriters.

Here are the nominations:

Performer/Songwriter category nominees:

Garth Brooks (If Tomorrow Never Comes, The Thunder Rolls, Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up), Papa Loved Mama)
Leonard Cohen (Suzanne, Hallelujah, Bird on a Wire, Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye)
Elvis Costello (Alison, Watching the Detectives, Everyday I Write the Book, Almost Blue)
Dion DiMucci (Runaround Sue, Donna the Prima Donna, Love Came to Me, Lovers Who Wander)
David Gates (Make It With You, If, Baby I'm-a Want You, Everything I Own)
Tommy James (Crimson in Clover, I Think We're Alone Now, Mony Mony, Crystal Blue Persuasion)
John Mellencamp (Pink Houses, Small Town, The Authority Song, Jack & Diane)
Lou Reed (Walk on the Wild Side, Sweet Jane, Rock & Roll, Heroin)
Leon Russell (This Masquerade, Superstar, A Song For You, Delta Lady)
**Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen (Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Beautiful Day, New Year's Day)**
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (Peace Train, Wild World, Morning Has Broken, The First Cut is the Deepest)
Maurice White, Phillip Bailey, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Al McKay (September, That's the Way of the World, Shining Star, Sing A Song)

Non-Performing Songwriter(s) nominees:

Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (Come a Little Bit Closer, I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone, I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight?, Last Train to Clarksville)
Jackie DeShannon (Bette Davis Eyes, Everytime You Walk Into a Room, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Dum Dum)
Luther Dixon (Sixteen Candles, Soldier Boy, Boys, I Don't Want to Cry)
David Foster (I Have Nothing, You're the Inspiration, After the Love Is Gone, The Prayer)
Mark James (Hooked on a Feeling, Suspicious Minds, Moody Blue, (You Were) Always On My Mind)
Robert John "Mutt" Lange ((Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Photograph, Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman)
Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones (My Cup Runneth Over, Try To Remember)
Johnny Mandel (The Shadow Of Your Smile, Emily, A Time For Love, Suicide is Painless)
Jerry Ragovoy & Bert Berns (Cry Baby, Twist and Shout, Piece of My Heart, Time is On My Side)
Billy Sherrill (Stand By Your Man, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, My Elusive Dreams, Almost Persuaded)
Joe South (Rainy Night in Georgia, Hush, Games People Play, Down in the Boondocks)
Paul Vance & Neil Pockriss (Playground in My Mind, Catch a Falling Star, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Tracy)

10-17-2009, 06:17 AM	#408
dandysweets Acrobat Join Date: May 2005 Location: Always on the run Posts: 302 Local Time: 06:46 PM	Paris Hilton about her hero of the decade I'm not exactly a fan of Paris Hilton, but at least, she's got a point - good going Paris: Who was the greatest hero of the decade? Bono, for all his accomplishments for the world. Not only is he an amazing singer and artist, but he dedicates his life to helping the less fortunate and to saving lives. He is such an inspiration to me as a philanthropist. Q&A: Paris Hilton \| Life and style \| The Guardian

10-17-2009, 10:43 AM	#409
last unicorn ONE love, blood, life Premium Gold Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: in Bono's freckled arms ... Posts: 13,369 Local Time: 06:46 PM	Ugh, I think the fact this is coming from Paris Hilton is actually a point against Bono. __________________ we g e t to carry each other

10-17-2009, 10:51 PM	#412
BonoFox1 Blue Crack Supplier Premium Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Saving my pennies for the next tour leg Posts: 46,911 Local Time: 10:46 AM	I've seen her come out of the Los Angeles shows where one time as we were loitering around after a show she pulls out in her Bentley and stops on purpose for a few minutes to pose in her car for the paps...I dont care about her opinions but whateva! __________________

10-18-2009, 10:34 AM	#415
U2Fanatic4ever still MUSEified!!!!!!!!!!!! Premium Gold Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: HAZ MUSEdepressionz....halp! Posts: 17,003 Local Time: 01:46 PM	as always well said Bono! words of poetry, words that mean something. I love reading his op-ed pieces.. now it's time that Bono gets his Nobel Peace Prize... he certainly deserves it.. I hope this happens one day.. __________________ *"LOVE IS OUR RESISTANCE.."*

10-18-2009, 11:23 AM	#418
last unicorn ONE love, blood, life Premium Gold Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: in Bono's freckled arms ... Posts: 13,369 Local Time: 06:46 PM	I think Bono touches some really interesting, still controversial points in this article. I'm glad he's writing about the critisism as well instead of just praising Obama. The main debate here is whether the prize has been awarded too early and what the political motives of the comité were. I think the "Don't blow it" line is the most important one in this article. The prize is an honour for Obama, but puts him under extreme pressure. __________________ we g e t to carry each other

10-17-2009, 05:03 PM	#411
domo-kun Rock n' Roll Doggie Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Well, definably not in New York! Interference is lying to you, shhhhh! Posts: 3,321 Local Time: 06:46 PM	Rembers me of a backstage film i saw somewhere, and Paris was totally talking to Bono, praising him to death, and Bono saying yeah, we should really do something together sometimes, really! but Bono (strangely) seemed in a bit of a rush. I don't really have an opinion on her. She's just Paris..

10-18-2009, 11:02 AM	#417
OrARoundabout Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Wherever Coco O'Brien goes... Posts: 4,196 Local Time: 01:46 PM	Nice article Bono

10-19-2009, 04:03 AM	#419
vertpomme Shutterbug Extraordinaire Premium Silver Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The Great Below Posts: 1,845 Local Time: 01:46 PM	I think the problem that many people have with Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize is that they don't understand how the Nobel committee decides to award it. Technically, the prize can never be awarded too early or too late. It is not awarded solely for merit or good deeds that have already been done. In fact, many people who do good deeds go completely ignored by the Nobel committee simply because the individual has already gotten enough attention for what they have achieved (this is the reason I do not think that Bono will ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize). According to the Nobel Foundation website the Nobel Peace Prize is usually awarded "to encourage those who receive it to see the effort through, sometimes at critical moments." Both Obama and the Dalai Lama were awarded the prize so that they would be challenged to see their efforts through to the end, to inspire them to continue no matter what obstacles get in their way. In my opinion, Bono's recent Times Op-Ed has done something excellent for the citizens of my country; much like the Nobel committee, the last three paragraphs challenge us to see our president's efforts through, to aid him in reaching these goals, to strive via our own deeds to make the world a better place. Thanks, Bono. I assure you: some of us are listening. __________________ Some people go to church; I go to concerts. "When you go past a managed forest, you see a mass of tree trunks. Then at a certain point you look again, and you realize they're all in perfect rows. Clarity. Clarity of vision. What you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seeing at all. You labor, you sweat to see what you couldn't have seen from that other perspective."

10-19-2009, 09:55 AM	#420
BonoFox1 Blue Crack Supplier Premium Silver Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Saving my pennies for the next tour leg Posts: 46,911 Local Time: 10:46 AM	Lou Reed, U2, Elvis Costello Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame \| undercover.com.au, Music, News, Entertainment Lou Reed, U2, Elvis Costello Nominated for Songwriters Hall of Fame by Paul Cashmere - October 18 2009 photo by Ros O'Gorman The 2010 Songwriter Hall of Fame nominations have been announced with Lou Reed, U2 and Elvis Costello up for the award. About Elvis Costello, the Songwriter Hall of Fame said, “One of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the modern rock era, Elvis Costello burst upon the scene in 1977 at the height of the New Wave and has been writing songs—many of which have been covered by artists from Linda Ronstadt to Johnny Cash?at full throttle ever since. But rock is only one of the many genres he has conquered. The indefatigable Costello has also written country and classical music while collaborating with Burt Bacharach and Paul McCartney and earning his way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame”. For Lou, “Lou Reed began the songwriting side of his influential music career as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records, delivering a hit in 1964 with the novelty dance hit “The Ostrich.” The Primitives were formed as a band to support it, and also included Welsh musician John Cale, with whom Reed would form the Velvet Underground in 1965 along with Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. The historic group helped pave the way for the punk rock explosion of the 1970s, with songs like “Heroin” and “Sweet Jane.” They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, long after Reed had established himself as a major solo singer-songwriter thanks to such titles as “Walk On The Wild Side” and “Dirty Boulevard.”” About U2, “Together as U2, Bono (Paul Hewson), The Edge (David Evans), Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen have enjoyed unprecedented success as songwriters, recording artists and concert performers. Their catalog includes two No. 1 hits, “With Or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Other hits have been used in movies (“All I Want Is You” from “Reality Bites,” “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” from “Batman Forever”) and have tributed Martin Luther King (“Pride [In The Name Of Love]”) and Billie Holiday (“Angel Of Harlem”).” The Songwriter Hall of Fame is broken into two categories – performing and non-performing songwriters. Here are the nominations: Performer/Songwriter category nominees: Garth Brooks (If Tomorrow Never Comes, The Thunder Rolls, Ain't Goin' Down (Til the Sun Comes Up), Papa Loved Mama) Leonard Cohen (Suzanne, Hallelujah, Bird on a Wire, Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye) Elvis Costello (Alison, Watching the Detectives, Everyday I Write the Book, Almost Blue) Dion DiMucci (Runaround Sue, Donna the Prima Donna, Love Came to Me, Lovers Who Wander) David Gates (Make It With You, If, Baby I'm-a Want You, Everything I Own) Tommy James (Crimson in Clover, I Think We're Alone Now, Mony Mony, Crystal Blue Persuasion) John Mellencamp (Pink Houses, Small Town, The Authority Song, Jack & Diane) Lou Reed (Walk on the Wild Side, Sweet Jane, Rock & Roll, Heroin) Leon Russell (This Masquerade, Superstar, A Song For You, Delta Lady) Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen (Where the Streets Have No Name, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, Beautiful Day, New Year's Day) Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) (Peace Train, Wild World, Morning Has Broken, The First Cut is the Deepest) Maurice White, Phillip Bailey, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Al McKay (September, That's the Way of the World, Shining Star, Sing A Song) Non-Performing Songwriter(s) nominees: Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart (Come a Little Bit Closer, I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone, I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight?, Last Train to Clarksville) Jackie DeShannon (Bette Davis Eyes, Everytime You Walk Into a Room, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, Dum Dum) Luther Dixon (Sixteen Candles, Soldier Boy, Boys, I Don't Want to Cry) David Foster (I Have Nothing, You're the Inspiration, After the Love Is Gone, The Prayer) Mark James (Hooked on a Feeling, Suspicious Minds, Moody Blue, (You Were) Always On My Mind) Robert John "Mutt" Lange ((Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Photograph, Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car, Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman) Harvey Schmidt & Tom Jones (My Cup Runneth Over, Try To Remember) Johnny Mandel (The Shadow Of Your Smile, Emily, A Time For Love, Suicide is Painless) Jerry Ragovoy & Bert Berns (Cry Baby, Twist and Shout, Piece of My Heart, Time is On My Side) Billy Sherrill (Stand By Your Man, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, My Elusive Dreams, Almost Persuaded) Joe South (Rainy Night in Georgia, Hush, Games People Play, Down in the Boondocks) Paul Vance & Neil Pockriss (Playground in My Mind, Catch a Falling Star, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini, Tracy) __________________

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