At one point in in their career, less than ten paying customers were on hand for a U2 show. In the early ninetie's, U2 was the biggest export in all of Ireland.
Luciano Pavarotti called Bono's father relentlessly, so that he would try and convince his son to write a song for him.
He has written songs either for, or with, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Keith Richards, Luciano Pavarotti, Sinead O'Connor, and Howie B among several others.
Wrote the song "The Sweetest Thing" after missing his wife's birthday. When the song was rerecorded, his wife, Ali Hewson received all the proceeds of its sale. She gave them, in turn to a charity for victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Two daughters, with Stewart, Jordan and Memphis Eve.
Son with Stewart, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q
Wife Alison gave birth to their 4th child, John Abraham Hewson, 7 pounds 7 oz, in Dublin Ireland. Now has 2 daughters and 2 sons. [21 May 2001]
Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter of U2.
Children: Jordan (b. 1989), Eve (b. 1991), Elijah (b. August 1999), John (b. May 2001)
His father, Robert Hewson, died of cancer in Dublin. [21 August 2001]
Wrote a song with The Edge for Roy Orbison, "She's a Mystery To Me". It is included on Orbison's last album, Mystery Girl.
His stage name comes from Bono Vox, a hearing aid retailer. Bono Vox is Latin for "good voice"
Bono was a member of Band Aid but was absent when the ensemble came to perform "Do They Know It's Christmas?" on BBC TV's "Top of the Pops", leaving Paul Weller to mime the line Bono had sang on the record.
He is the only person, who has been nominated for an Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe, and for the Nobel Prize.
Was one of the keynote speakers at Liberal Party of Canada's Leadership Convention in November 2003, where Paul Martin was elected as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
Addressed the British Labour Party annual conference in Brighton, England. [29 September 2004]
Sings the line 'well tonight, thank God it's them, instead of you' in the Band Aid 20 2004 cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas", the exact same line he sang on the original version back in 1984.
U2 were voted the 22nd Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Artists of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Co-wrote (with The Edge) the theme song to _GoldenEye (1995)_ , performed by Tina Turner. [1995]
Supports Celtic Football club
He and his daughter Jordan share a birthday. She was born on his 29th birthday.
Along with his wife Ali Hewson and NY designer Rogan, created the high-fashion casual wear line called Edun (which is "nude" spelled backwards and pronounced Eden). It was designed as a socially conscious company to benefit poor, developing countries.
In 2005 he was one of 166 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on Third World debt relief and increasing AIDS awareness.
Paul David Hewson, byname Bono, is the lead singer of the Irish rock band, U2. He is married to Alison 'Ali' Stewart and has four children.
He joined U2 after answering an advert posted at his school by Larry Mullen Jr. He turned up for the audition claiming to be able to play guitar.
Since 1999, he has become increasingly involved in campaigning for third-world debt relief and the plight of Africa. In May 2002, he took US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill on a four-country tour of Africa. Also that year, Bono set up an organisation called DATA, which stands for Debt, Aids, Trade in Africa. The focus of the organisation is to raise awareness about Africa's unpayable debts, uncontrolled spread of AIDS, and unfair trade rules that hurt the countries' poor citizens.
While on his mission to highlight Africa's AIDS crisis, Bono travelled to the White House for a special private meeting with President George W. Bush, who had just unveiled a $5 billion aid package for the world's poorest countries that respect human rights. Bono also accompanied the President for a speech on the White House lawn. "This is an important first step, and a serious and impressive new level of commitment... This must happen urgently, because this is a crisis, Bono said, It is much easier and hipper for me to be on the barricades with a handkerchief over my nose -- it looks better on the resume of a rock 'n' roll star. But I can do better by just getting into the White House and talking to a man who I believe listens, wants to listen, on these subjects.
In 2002, Bono wrote the introduction to the Book of Psalms", one of nine books of the Bible published individually in Canongate Book's Pocket Canons series.
Bono appears in the 2002 List of 100 Greatest Britons (sponsored by the BBC, voted for by the public and which included Irish people), alongside such other greats as Sir Winston Churchill, Diana, Princess of Wales, Queen Elizabeth I of England, Bob Geldof and others.
