When John Lennon said the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,” it was, as we all know, quite a controversy. Somehow I doubt Bono’s recent boast about U2 knocking the previous pope off the Giants Stadium attendance charts will be as big of a deal. I mean, he’s already down with the Vatican and Pope John Paul II did amicably try on his “fly shades.”
The NY Times’ ArtsBeat reports that, according to Live Nation, U2 managed to fill 1,524 more seats at Giants Stadium last night than the previous record-holder did in 1995: Pope John Paul II. “We’ve broken every record for attendance in this stadium,” Bono exclaimed for 84,472 U2 fans last night, “including the Pope.”
Bono is a humanitarian, I’ll give him that, but he’s also a big ol’ cocky rock star. He may have let the pope try on his shades, but Bono wears those things every freakin’ day.