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And Finally
Bono’s miner tribute criticised
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 29 November 2010
According to the Daily Star, Bono’s choice of song when paying tribute to the 29 miners who died following two explosions in a New Zealand mine last week has been criticised.
Whereas Jay-Z, who is touring New Zealand with Bono et al at the moment, dedicated his song ‘Forever Young’ to the victims, telling his crowd “they will always be in our hearts and they will always be forever young”, Bono, for some reason, reportedly chose to sing ‘I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For’ in their honour.
Some considered this inappropriate given that efforts to find the miners alive after a first smaller blast failed, and work was now underway to recover their bodies.
The tabloid quoted one gig goer who said: “Bono made two mentions of the miners, but it was a really awkward moment for the first. I don’t think I was the only one who thought it was more than a little insensitive. People were looking round at each other”.
