Last Night in Boston: It’s A ‘Beautiful Day’

Last Night in Boston: It’s A ‘Beautiful Day’
October 4th, 2005

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The Boston Globe notes today that John Kerry was among the throng at last night’s U2 concert in Boston. It was an emotional performance sprinkled with the politics that U2 and frontman Bono are known for.

The second leg of U2’s ‘’Vertigo” tour hit Boston last night with a full-on bang. The sold-out crowd featured celebrities such as Tom Brady and John Kerry, but also thousands of U2 diehards who sang along so loudly that any decibel meter would have been smashed.

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U2, he continues, are just getting going, just at the start of their career. (Not sure where that puts Keane but they went down great anyway.) John Kerry gets a namecheck in Beautiful Day and Bono is ‘thinking about America’ as he breaks into ‘Many Rivers To Cross’. And in a city of learning, Miracle Drug is dedicated to two doctors - ‘huge inspirations’ - who have come to the show tonight: Paul Farmer and Joia Mukherjee who are AIDS specialists and activists with Partners in Health. (Interesting aside: there is a brilliant book by the Pullitzer Prize winning author Tracy Kidder all about Paul Farmer. It’s called Mountains Beyond Mountains.)

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JOHN KERRY + U2 = HEAVEN

*melts*

Explain to me again why I'm supposed to prefer having a beer with a dullard like shrub rather than a man of so many talents and interests like John Kerry. Sounds like a great concert.

I loved the mentions of JK by Bono last night. Very special stuff.

Bono is my OTHER mancrush... this is all very tantalizing :evilgrin:

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