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Blogging with Bono

Boston Globe travel writer Tom Haines has one sweet gig this summer: trek around Europe and blog about U2's summer tour. Read: Interject stories about cultural differences with nights spent jamming with Bono and probably get backstage all while picking up a paycheck.

Friday's entry from Poland highlighted the fact that U2 can't be bothered to hire translators as Bono attempted to tell his story about meeting Pope John Paul II and had to search the concert crowd for free labor:

"Somebody out there who speaks good English," he said, looking in the front rows. "You, come up. I want to tell a story."

Apparently whoever he got lied and didn't speak English very well (Bono, it's well, not good) and the story didn't have quite the delivery he hoped for, but of course the show went on.

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·   Tom Haines's blog [Boston Globe]