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...first at the piano, pounding out a simple but strong accompaniment to his full-bodied voice. These songs were more folk than rock, and drew heavily on the tradition of his father and his self-proclaimed influences, John Lennon and Bob Dylan. His audience recognized this and sang along with him on every song they knew, which was just about all of them. He switched to acoustic guitar and a harder sound after a few songs. These were rock ballads with titles like “I Love You” and “Our Song...
...Super Bowl, a nonstop party. I love Keynesians as much as the next guy, but New Orleans and U2 is tough to beat. As the band members made their way from the field to their sky box following their half-time performance, I talked football with Paul McCartney, who sang along loudly to Beatles songs played on the stadium p.a. Sir Paul high-fived me when, as he put it, "the Patriots ran that interference all the way back for a touchdown!" After the game I joined U2 and Ashley Judd for dinner in the French Quarter and spent much...
...would be a megalomaniac if his preoccupation with power were delusional, but it's not. Less than a month ago, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he sat on a dais with Bill Gates and discussed ways to save a continent; two days later he sang for a TV audience of 130 million at the Super Bowl half-time show. Not a bad week. Can you blame the guy for being a little full of himself...
...DYLAN When the master lyricist traded his acoustic guitar for an electric backup band in 1965, he sang to rock fans about the evils of war and the emptiness of consumerism...
...would be a megalomaniac if his preoccupation with power were delusional, but it's not. Less than a month ago, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, he sat on a dais with Bill Gates and discussed ways to save a continent; two days later he sang for a TV audience of 130 million at the Super Bowl half-time show. Not a bad week. Can you blame the guy for being a little full of himself...