Bono Time's Person of the Year 2005
For his ability to make people listen and make people care about world poverty and AIDS, I introduce my superhero, Paul David Hewson known to most by his nickname, Bono.
He is an amazing example of how one person can make a difference, inspire others and change the world.
Image Source: HDS. Bono G8 Press Conference. Creative Commons.
Bono Quote on Saving Lives
- Eight million people die every year for the price of going out with your friends to the movies and buying an ice cream.
Literally for about $30 a head per year, you could save 8 million lives. Isn't that extraordinary?
Preventable disease - not calamity, not famine, nothing like that - preventable disease, just for the lack of medicines. That is a bargain.
Bono
Reasons Why Bono is a SuperHero
- Bono Quote on Saving Lives
- Bono Time's Person of the Year
- Inspiring talk from Bono on Activism for Africa on YouTube
- What is Red on YouTube
- Appealing to Something Greater than Ourselves
- Bono to Make Poverty History on YouTube
- On the Move by Bonon in the Amazon Spotlight
- How Can We End Poverty on YouTube
- Bono Quote on Poverty and Disease
- Kofi Annan Speaking about Bono
- Bono and Gore on Poverty and Global Warming on YouTube
- Bono and Alicia Keys on YouTube
- Do They Know It Christmas from LiveAid
- Donate to Action Against Hunger
- A Month of Thanks Challenge
- Benefiting Action Against Hunger
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Music can change the world
because it can change people.
Bono
Paul David Hewson on Wikipedia
Paul David Hewson, KBE (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer and musician, best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2. Based on weeks that Bono's compositions have spent on the charts, he is the fifty-fourth most successful songwriter in U.K. singles chart history.
Outside of the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists, sits on the board of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organized and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticized for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.
Bono Time's Person of the Year
The Time Magazine Article - Bono is Person of the Year, 2005
- TIME names Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates Persons of Year - CNN.com
- The good deeds of an activist rock legend and one of the world's richest men and his wife carried the day in 2005, as TIME magazine on Sunday named U2 frontman Bono and philanthropic couple Bill and Melinda Gates as its "Persons of the Year."
Inspiring talk from Bono on Activism for Africa on YouTube
In The Name Of Love in the Amazon Spotlight
In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2
Amazon Price: $13.96 (as of 11/09/2009)
In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 features brand-new covers of classic U2 songs by Grammy Award-winning and up-and-coming African artists. Artists include Angelique Kidjo, Les Nubians, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Vieux Farka Tour, Vusi Mahlasela and the Soweto Gospel Choir.
A portion of the record's proceeds will directly benefit The Global Fund.
Africa Celebrates U2 Website
A portion of the record's proceeds will directly benefit The Global Fund.
- Africa Celebrates U2
- The main website for the Africa Celebrates U2 album.
(YOU) RED
Join (RED)
What's the meaning of the parentheses or brackets? Well, we call them "the embrace." Each company that becomes (RED) places its logo in this embrace and is then elevated to the power of red. Thus the name -- (PRODUCT)RED.
- (RED)
- The main website for (RED).
- (RED) : Manifesto
- The official (RED) Manifesto.
(Product) Red iPod in the Amazon Spotlight
Apple iPod nano 8 GB AAC/MP3 Player Red (Product) RED (2nd Generation)
Amazon Price: $369.99 (as of 11/09/2009)
This iPod Nano holds 2000 songs and thousands of photos on 8 GB of storage
A (PRODUCT) RED product, a portion of each product sold is given to The Global Fund to fight AIDS.
What is Red on YouTube
(Product) Red Shoes Available on Amazon
A Featured Lens on Product Red
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(Product) Red - to Raise Awareness and Money for The Global Fund
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(RED) was created by Bono and Bobby Shriver, Chairman of DATA, to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by teaming up with the world's most iconic brands to produce (PRODUCT) RED-branded products. A percentage of each (PRODUCT) RED product so...
Books on Bono and U2 Available on Amazon
Appealing to Something Greater than Ourselves
- Bono gives us a vision of how tomorrow can be better than today. He appeals to something greater than ourselves. He tells the story of his life and struggles in terms everyone can understand.
He speaks about faith in a way that even a nonbeliever can embrace.
Jann S. Wenner
Rolling Stone magazine
Rolling Stone Interview with Bono
- The Rolling Stone Interview: Bono
- The Rolling Stone Interview with Bono from October 2005.
Bono to Make Poverty History on YouTube
Make Poverty History and ONE
- Make Poverty History
- The biggest ever anti-poverty movement came together under the banner of Make Poverty History in 2005. In 2007, the fight against poverty continues. Take action now to pressure politicians and decision makers to help make poverty history.
- One
- ONE is Americans of all beliefs and every walk of life - united as ONE - to help make poverty history. As ONE, we are raising public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in the world's poorest countries.
Is Bono your superhero too?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes. He's a great pick.
Siri says:
Bono is an awesome example to everybody...This guy, this person is the one with the ability to change the world for the better good...I would any day, eyes closed would pick Bono as a true hero and the best of the best ever!!!!
Posted April 29, 2009
Annie Bisson, Montreal QC says:
I love eveything that you do, your music and for world
Posted March 02, 2009
j3nny3lf says:
Bono is a great example to everybody on loving and giving. He is indeed a hero.
Posted June 26, 2008
No. I have someone else in mind.
He's like Christ and Bob Dylan rolled into one.
Drew Carey on Bono
On the Move by Bonon in the Amazon Spotlight
On the Move
Amazon Price: (as of 11/09/2009)
On the Move is a beautiful presentation of the message Bono gave at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 2, 2006.
The collection of images and pictures are black and white photographs that Bono took of Africans during his first trip to Ethiopia.
A stirring message to motivate people to take action for those in Africa.
Articles on Bono's Humanitarian Works
- Transcript: Bono remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast
- Remarks as prepared for delivery and courtesy of DATA by Bono to the National Prayer Breakfast; Feb. 2, 2006 from USATODAY.com
- Bono Smooched By Clinton, Cruise, Carmen Electra - News Story | MTV News
- The U2 singer was recognized for his humanitarian work on Thursday night in Hollywood at a fund-raiser gala. The two-hour event included performances by No Doubt, R.E.M. and others.
How Can We End Poverty on YouTube
Bono Quote on Poverty and Disease
- The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation -- we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this stupid extreme poverty, where, in a world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.
We can be the first generation. It might take a while, but we can be that generation that says no to stupid poverty.
Bono
Commencement address, University of Pennsylvania
May 17, 2004
Commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania
- Commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania
- The text for the Commencement address Bono delivered in 2004 at the University of Pennsylvania on humanity.org
He's a poet. He's a philosopher.
And last night,
I think I saw him walking on water.
Mick Jagger introducing Bono
MTV Free Your Mind award, Nov. 1999
Bono and Kofi Annan
Photo Credit
UN Photo #NICA 81786 by Evan Schneider
Kofi Annan Speaking about Bono
- You have made people listen.
You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only one world to share.
You have taught young people that they do have the power to change the world.
Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General addressing Bono
November 1999
Bono and Gore on Poverty and Global Warming on YouTube
Bono and Al Gore
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Bono and Alicia Keys on YouTube
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A single dollar can make a difference in the life of a child with HIV. Keep A Child Alive is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. 25 million people have already dead from AIDS, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, t...
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Do They Know It Christmas from LiveAid
Do They Know Its Christmas Featured Lens
One of Bono's first notable humanitarian efforts.-
Do They Know It's Christmas Video Showcase
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In late 1984 Irish singer Bob Geldof watched a BBC report on the famine in Ethiopia. He was so affected that along with Midge Ure they wrote and organized the recording of a pop record to increase awareness of the famine and to raise money. Do They...
A Squidoo Lens of Bono Quotes
- Bono Quotes
- Let these Bono Quotes inspire you.
Donate to Action Against Hunger
An international organization that delivers emergency aid and to people suffering from natural disasters or man-made crises.
A Month of Thanks Challenge
Originally created as a SuperHero lens, Bono's lens was converted to benefit Action Against Hunger for the Month of Thanks Challenge.-
A Month of Thanks Challenge
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A Month of Thanks gives lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities. The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going...
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Is the monetary aid, that Bono provides, really helping countries in need? Or is it just continuing the cycle of poverty. Join the debate, should we continue to give aid those in need?
http://www.squidoo.com/worldhunger
Posted May 29, 2009
wasabiman wrote...
Good job on a positive lens. A lot of people are jeaous of him because what is he? Just another rich rock star. Not so. How many people are willing to put the time and effort in that he does. Being a good businessman, he knows using his celeb status will get him in to see many important people. So why shouldn't he do it?
It's a cheap shot against a lot of activist celebs (IMO) to criticize them. Because how many of those who critcize them get invovled? Not many. Just one view.
Posted December 11, 2008
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This lens benefits Action Against Hunger, committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and families while ensuring access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.Action Against Hunger is an international organization that delivers emergency aid and to people suffering from natural disasters or man-made crises.
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