When exactly was the moment Bono disappeared right up his own backside?

[Mellotron]

THe only period of U2 music I'm fussed about is Zooropa and Pop, which is probably them at their most self-indulgent.

 

[Pevenseagull]

when he decided his name was Bono/ when he wandered around high fiving people at Live Aid/ when he put on a cowboy hat

ees complicated

 

[gripper stebson]

When he appeared alongside Lynn in Alan Partridge.

"Yes - I last saw da Edge at a pap cancert."

 

[fat old seagull]

The moment he slid up his own bottom coincides with the moment he became incredibly lucky, and realised he was getting money for nothing and a stage to espouse his opinions....as if they mattered. Should have just stuck with his mediocre music.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

More concerned about the music than whether it is played by a few knobs!!!!

Who plays the music does influence how you receive and hear it though.

 

[Badger]

When he appeared alongside Lynn in Alan Partridge.

"Yes - I last saw da Edge at a pap cancert."

"Sunday Bloody Sunday". What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

 

[vegster]

Aren't we forgetting his fellow cock, " The Edge " surely anyone who dubs himself this is cockdom personified ?

 

[albion534]

If anyone has seen the South Park episode about him will know all they need to know about him

 

[Lower West Stander]

If anyone has seen the South Park episode about him will know all they need to know about him

This.

But doesn't a turd come out of the arse and not disappear up it?

 

[Guinness Boy]

If anyone can't be arsed to read the link I posted, because it is a tad irrelevant, here's the salient point.

Last week, there was a gathering in Dublin of the elites of Europe's right-wing parties – the parties that colluded in imposing over €60bn of rich people's debt on to Irish citizens. Bono, the eminent back-slapper and official chin-tickler to the powerful, turned up to entertain them.

Bono praised our "dignity", the patronising gobshite. He told them the Troika didn't bail us out, Irish citizens bailed themselves out. As good an example of truth-avoiding bullshit as you can get.

However, the actual answer to the thread is he disappeared up his own backside the very moment he sang the line "tonight thank God it's them instead of you"

 

[London Irish]

Pretty much spotted he was a fake right from the get-go, even when my fellow students at Sussex University were telling me in all seriousness that buying his records would mean a proportion would go to funding the IRA.

 

[Bold Seagull]

1985

'85 - still love all the music up to an including Achtung baby, doesn't stop him being a cock though. Much like the Smiths & Morrissey

Loive Aid 85

Yep, '85, after the success of The Unforgettable Fire.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Achtung Baby/Zoo TV Tour sent Bono on a one way ticket to LaLaLand

 

[red star portslade]

Isn't Mark Chapman due for release soon?

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

The day he chose to wear sunglasses when he was inside a room probably. You can pretty well guarantee anyone that does that is a bit of a self important ****.

Imagine being on a long haul flight with Bono on one side of you and Sting on the other. The saviours of Africa and the South American rain forests on either side of you.

Yup, for me it was the minute he discovered wrap-around shades. Quite liked U2 up to Achtung Baby and some of Zooropa was really quite good.

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

"Sunday Bloody Sunday". What a great song. It really encapsulates the frustration of a Sunday, doesn't it? You wake up in the morning, you've got to read all the Sunday papers, the kids are running round, you've got to mow the lawn, wash the car, and you think "Sunday, bloody Sunday!".

Oi really hate to do this to you Badger, but it was actually about a massacre in Derry in 1972...

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Oi really hate to do this to you Badger, but it was actually about a massacre in Derry in 1972...

Surely a 'whoosh' moment?

 

[Badger]

Oi really hate to do this to you Badger, but it was actually about a massacre in Derry in 1972...

A massacre? Ugh. I'm not playing that again.

 

[Badger]

Surely a 'whoosh' moment?

No, just quoting the next line I think

 

[Butch Willykins]

Good thread.

I was a bit young to notice in his early years. I'd say I was definately aware he was a prize bellend around the Zooropa period.