Bono and the Edge's Mercedes Page

Bono misses Ronnie's party to play with new toy...

It proves the point. Boys never grow up... their toys just get more expensive and ShowBizIreland.com should have seen it coming. Especially when Bono gave his 1980 Mercedes banger to charity for the Postcard to Ethiopia event last Saturday night in Killiney Castle near his home which raised £40,000 by the way.

With the banger out of the way the coast was clear for everyone's favourite rocker to splash out. Two weeks ago, Bono bought himself a brand-new out-of-the-box 00D Mercedes 600 cl in burgundy with all the extras including a built-in back massager in the seats. Price tag? Well for a basic model you are talking around 144,295.00 Irish punts. But, for the Bono special you could be talking in and around £200,000 ($350,000.) Twice the price of your average Ferrari.

The only thing is when Bono saw his new toy he didn't like the colour and decided to send it back. So, a week later his new second new car arrived and what colour did Bono want? Brown. Don't ask we, we can't figure it out either.

Furthermore Bono's new car meant he missed a night on the town with Ronnie Wood from the Rolling Stones who also lives in Ireland. On Saturday week a classic rock-and-roll night with the boys was being organised. Everyone's favourite pop star Bono was invited but was running late. Obviously too busy with his new car.

The Edge Wins Wife & loses Ride...

U2 guitarist The Edge was left red faced on Wednesday night last in Dublin after he left a fashion show he was attending with his fellow band mate Bono.

After the duo left Dublin Castle where the show was taking place The Edge walked to the band's hotel The Clarence nearby.

The Edge had parked his vintage green Mercedes outside the hotel but before he got there the local Dublin council had taken his car away as it was illegally parked.

The star did not have to wait to long to get his car back as he was spotted in it around Dublin the next day.

Thanks to: http://www.showbizireland.com

April 29, 2002
From The Sunday World:

U2 turn down $25 million for commercial

U2's front man Bono has revealed that himself and other members of the band
have turned down $25 million from a leading motor company. The band were
approached by the corporation and offered the sum in return for using "Where
the Streets Have No Name".

However it caused a lot of disharmony in the band as they all agreed that
this money could be used to fund charities but in the end the lads thought
it best to keep their long held view of not accepting commercial sponsors.
At the end of the day this song is one of the best we have written and if we
gave this song away it would have been played out in terms of usage, Bono
went on to say "It is a very special song for us, when we are not having a
great night doing gigs, we play it and all of a sudden God has entered the
room, it can change the mood of a whole gig".

U2 are still trying to work out if they can come to some agreement with the
yet undisclosed motor company. They would really like to use this money in
funding AIDS awareness in Africa and also other home grown causes such as
Goal.

U2 from their early days have always turned down money in return for
commercialization, 10 years ago the band was offered in the region of $5
million by Microsoft. If U2 were to accept this offer it would be the
largest sum of money paid for the use of music to a commercial.