Die Enden der Welt – Roger Willemsen
https://www.audible.de/pd/Die-Enden-der-Welt-Hoerbuch/B004V7UE0Y (14.02.2023)
Surrender – 40 Songs, One Story (Bono)
https://www.audible.de/pd/Surrender-Hoerbuch/B09ZK9XT14 (04.02.2023)
i can’t change the world, but I can change the world in me
Clear thought = the hook
Digital only release
DIY dead
Roman catholicism is the glam rock of religion
No piano – no room
You can only begin a real meditation on life with a meditation on death (Dalai Lama)
To move people with music, you first have to be moved by it
The mechanic of the heart
Prayers are not always answered in the way you want
Verified taste
Performers don’t like to be ignored
U2 is opera in the pop music of the day
Guggi vs. Bono
Bono Vox of O'Connell Street
You have the people you need right there beside you, if you can see than
Close to THE EDGE
We wrote own songs, because we couldn’t play covers
Allison Steward
Swollen Ego
Maximum minimalism: Post Punk
London
The 10 commandments of PUNK
Anton Corbijn
They have nothing but IT
A Band IS a cooperation
Punkrock contract
Worried money never wins
Being paid for having this waking dreams
BOY meets man
„Let’s try it“ (mantra)
Lemmy
Lennon producing BOY (he didn’t)
Marquee Moon
Stepping away from the blues, going sci-fi
Memory Man
Pretending to play Jazz
Drummers are born, Pop Stars are packaged, Rock stars are Homo Errectus Showbusiness
Brian Eno
TELEVISION
An album without minor
The love for unfinished songs (Eno)
Riff vs. (Guitar) Figure … Sound vs. Sonics
Mr. Good Morning & The Girl with the beard
Live Aid 1985
In service of the greater good (music)
Streets …
Quincy
Mental Polaroids
E7E
Selenskyj
The state is „kaputt“ (Gorbatschow)
„My father told me, never to appear more than you are and always to be more then you appear.“ (Angela Merkel)
Hansa Studios
Conny Plank
Less is more, more is more
One foot in the past, one foot in the future
Telling your life story with your instrument
Stage persona
Blackstar (Elvis Presley)
Sleepwalking Bowie
Zooropa / Zoo TV
Life imitates art, art irritates life
Playing it back (3rd Reich)
Killing Rushdie
Dreaming it up (again)
Ironic rockstars
Boneo
Top of the popes
Kitchen (Dublin)
The breasted one (god)
Mother giving god
Life large, travel light
Method acting
Sinatra
Pavarotti
Singing a song vs. being sang by the song
2 new chapters in the book of Bob
Playground Studio
The partner comes back as a friend
Friendship is higher as love
„I Love You“ (song called)
32 countries
A Bariton who thinks he is a tenor
Belafonte
Trump = Reality TV Star in the White House
Irish Be-Bop
Fighting vs. Functioning (family)
Terror Attack
Eagles of death metal
SURRENDER – strongest word in the Lexicon
Cat Stevens
„U2 can happen to anyone“