After that, according to his own account, spending most of the 1980s "trying to avoid becoming a rock star," Bono (Paul Hewson, singer and member of the supergroup U2 Ireland's most prominent) now looks like a caricature of a man who makes up for lost time.
His suddenly last Wednesday at the lounge Zurich's Dolder Park Hotel has a lot of his admission, Elan glam earlier that evening, the stage in Zurich's Hallenstadion. Wrap-around, bug-eyed nuances and slinky black guy in lingerie Designer, nattily set off by small but perfectly formed, the cigar is all very new U2: a little flash, much more enjoyable. Heavy on style, lighter in content.
The band's guitarist, known as the edge but baptized David Evans, perched on a large couch Dolder sports other equally frivolous, rockist get-up-his own sequinned tangerine, pale leather jacket jeans and black stripy wool hat skull.
"We used to want to be more severe, as it seems to be correct at the time," Evans explains how his calm. "We objected to all irony in rock music in the 1980s, but now that it is an ironic attitude seems about right. The best response to what is going on in the world today, "he concluded, lapsing briefly to native mode, more amazing U2 's" is just to gloat. "
While they are still doing some of the old spiritual uplifting anthem tour today-especially pride, songs about Martin Luther King, and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, a kind of hymn to rocking agnostics-their latest album, Achtung baby, called stop the moralising earnestly tuneful makes U2 into the rock music of the era of Live Aid (40 million albums sold worldwide).