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Bono: Mr G9 Goes

by | 17th, December 2007

SAYS Bono: “I’m a top line melody guy. That’s what I do. I understand harmony. I understand rhythm. But I sell ideas – musical, political, and in this case, commercial ideas. So many great painters, great musicians, great geniuses ended up with nothing. With broken hearts in rooms with broken windows. I want to see artists sitting at the table that decides the outcome of their lives.”

Bono has set up a £950 million investment company called Elevation Partners. It recently invested £125 million into American magazine Forbes, which openly describes itself as a “capitalist tool



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