"It's that music is beyond politics."įamously, Bono's ballooning humanitarian efforts would later earn him a reputation-not a good one-as a "messianic do-gooder" and an overambitious, globe-trotting collector of vanity projects. "If there's any message, it's a simple one, a banal one," frontman Bono explained to CNN. On a Tuesday night in a bomb-scarred Olympic stadium, Irish rock band U2 played the first major pop concert to take place in the recuperating city of Sarajevo since the end of the Bosnian war, in hopes of erasing the ethnic tensions that had overwhelmed Yugoslavia, if only for the duration of a two-act set.
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