U2's Bono Pays Tribute To Lou Reed
. In his eulogy, Bono recalls the first time he met Reed, on the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope tour in 1986. He writes of how he and Reed bonded over poetry, specifically James Joyce. The two would go on form a friendship that involved swapping short-stories by Delmore Schwartz and poems by Seamus Heaney. While Reed was known by many for being a "wild creature who put songs about heroin in the pop charts," Bono said he sees him differently. "This is how I will remember him, a still figure in the eye of a metallic hurricane, an artist pulling strange shapes out of the formless void that is pop culture, a songwriter pulling melodies out of the dissonance of what Yeats called "this filthy modern tide" and, yes, pop's truly great poker face � with so much comedy dancing around those piercing eyes." more on this story Radio.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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