Sub-saharan Africa Is Also Home To 400

U2 Is Sort Of Song Writing By Accident Really. We Don't Really Know What We're Doing And When We Do, It Doesn't Seem To Help.

The Fact Is That Ours Is The First Generation That Can Look Disease And Extreme Poverty In The Eye, Look Across The Ocean To Africa, And Say This, And Mean It. We Do Not Have To Stand For This. A Whole Continent Written Off - We Do Not Have To Stand For This.

The Great Music For So Many Artists - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - Was Always At The Moment When They Were Closest To Pop. It Would Be Easy For U2 To Go Off And Have A Concept Album, But I Want Us To Stay In The Pop Fray.

Sadly, I Do My Homework. I've A Soft Spot For The Boring Minutiae. I Read The Charter Of The United Nations Before Meeting With Kofi Annan. I Read The Meltzer Report, And Then I'll Read C. Fred Bergsten's Defense Of Institutions Like The World Bank And The I.m.f. It's Embarrassing To Admit.

It's Quite Widespread In Rock Culture, That Mythology Of The Shooting Star. I'd Rather Be The North Star. As Bob (dylan) Says, You Can Navigate By It.