Bono Gives Radiohead High Praise
photo courtesy of PR Photos/www.prphotos.comU2’s frontman Bono has reportedly offered some high praise for Radiohead in a heartfelt letter to NME.
Bono acknowledges Radiohead’s brilliance when the band tried out the pay-what-you-want experiment for downloads of their last album “In Rainbows.” He calls the sales technique “courageous and imaginative”, adding it helped rockers “figure out some new relationship with their audience.”
Although U2’s manager Paul McGuinness publicly criticized Radiohead for it, Bono feels the opposite and wrote:
“We feel blessed to be around at the same time (as Radiohead).”
From one great band to another…that was pretty cool from Bono to validate their actions!
3 babblicious comments:
Didn’t Radiohead later start selling it the old fashioned way because they didn’t make the money they thought they would?…
Bono needs to shut his mouth. Or put his money where his mouth is.
While Radiohead, NIN and others experiment with alternative distribution and pricing models, Bono and U2 are (and have been) raking millions and millions, leeching of the record companies outdated distribution model.
So for him to have the gall to even remotely associate himself with Radiohead by applauding their courage, is hypocrisy.
@Thomas
Relax, dude. Bono can admire Radiohead’s courage without being called a hypocrite. It is altogether a good thing.