After the film was released, the IRA were furious and threatened to kidnap Bono.

By the 12th century, the Akan Kingdom of Bonoman ( Bono State ) was established.

This was during U2's Elevation Tour, and from that point on during shows Bono would introduce the song as a tune that was originally about a lovestruck hangover but that Joey turned it into a gospel song.

Elvis Presley and Bono have stated his voice was, respectively, the greatest and most distinctive they had ever heard.

Mystery Girl was produced by Jeff Lynne, whom Orbison considered the best producer he had ever worked with, while Bono, Elvis Costello, Orbison's son Wesley and others offered their songs to him.

U2 frontman Bono holds Orbison as a standard in musical creativity, commenting in 1999, " The thing people don't talk about enough as far as I'm concerned is how innovative this music was, how radical in terms of its songwriting.

Salvatore Phillip " Sonny " Bono (; February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998 ) was an American recording artist, record producer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.

Sonny Bono was born in Detroit to Italian immigrants Santo Bono ( born in Montelepre, Palermo, Italy ) and Zena " Jean " La Valle.

Bono began his music career working at Specialty Records where his song " Things You Do to Me " was recorded by Sam Cooke, and went on to work for the record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s as a promotion man, percussionist and " gofer ".

Bono was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994 to represent California's 44th congressional district.

Although that bill was never voted on in the Senate, a similar Senate bill was passed after his death and named the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in his memory.

Drawing on his long experience as a celebrity and entertainment producer, Bono ( according to Maraniss and Weisskopf ) recognized that Gingrich's status had changed from politician to celebrity, and that Gingrich was not making allowances for that change:

Kessler pointed out that Bono was widely ridiculed and was named one of the " dimmest bulbs " in Congress by Progressive Magazine and that The Washington Post referred to him as the " idiot savant from way beyond the Beltway ".

In 1964 Bono married singer / entertainer Cher ; their daughter Chastity Bono ( now Chaz Bono ) was born on March 4, 1969.

Bono was a champion of the Salton Sea in southeastern California, where a park was named in his honor.

Bono was survived by his wife Mary Bono and children Christy, Chianna, Chesare, and Chaz.

Kessler also mentioned that a young staffer named Frederique J. Sandretto had accused Bono of sexually harassing her.

Bono was named Chastity Sun Bono after the film Chastity, which was produced by Sonny and in which Cher ( in her first feature film ) played a bisexual woman.

Before its fall, at the beginning of the 10th century Akan migrants moved southward then founded several nation-states including the first great Akan empire of the Bono founded in the 11th Century and for which the Brong Ahafo region of Akanland is named after.

The album was named after the chorus from the track " She's a Mystery to Me ", written for Orbison by U2's Bono and The Edge.

* Bono Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act ( United States ), named for Sonny Bono

Steven McCroskey ( Lloyd Bridges ), the air traffic controller, reveals that a passenger named Joe Seluchi ( Sonny Bono ) had boarded Mayflower One with a bomb in a briefcase, intending to commit suicide so that his wife can collect on insurance money.

The campaign is named after the song " One " by rock band U2, of which the campaign's co-founder Bono is a member.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Other people who have been outed include Fannie Flagg, Pete Williams, Chastity Bono, and Richard Chamberlain.

" In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and " went ballistic " before coming to terms with it: " By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to ' come out ' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter.

Bono was a team captain for Celebrity Fit Club 3 ( 2006 ) and was supported by girlfriend Jennifer Elia, who orchestrated exercise and training sessions.

This was confirmed in June 2009 by his publicist, who identified Bono's preferred name as Chaz Bono and said, " It is Chaz's hope that his choice to transition will open the hearts and minds of the public regarding this issue, just as his coming out did.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Cher appeared at the event with Mary Bono, who accepted the award on behalf of her late husband.

On the other hand, Bono said that it was better to spill some funds into nefarious quarters for the sake of those who needed it, than to stifle aid because of possible theft.

After the Verona trial sentence, a Fascist firing squad, at a shooting range in Verona on 11 January 1944, executed Ciano and others ( including Emilio De Bono and Giovanni Marinelli ) who had voted for Mussolini's ousting.

Urbana 06 speakers included Rick Warren, pastor, and author of The Purpose Driven Life ; Ray Bakke, a professor and specialist in urban ministry ; Bono from the band U2 ( via video ); and Ajith Fernando, a well-respected Bible teacher who is the director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka.

As a result, Badoglio, who in the meantime had launched an epistolary campaign against De Bono, replaced the latter in December.

On the fifth play of the opening game, he suffered a concussion and was replaced by Bono, who threw two touchdown passes while leading the 49ers to a 31 – 14 win.

This film would also turn out to be the final on screen appearance for Sonny Bono, who, at the time of the film's release, was serving in the U. S. House of Representatives.

Adonis was a cousin of Luciano crime family capo Alan Bono, who supervised Adonis ' operations in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

It was a two hour event that was hosted by Laliberté and many celebrities such as Salma Hayak, Shakira and Bono, who participated from Earth.

She established the Pro Bono Lawyers Panel, a panel of British-based lawyers who provided legal advice on a pro bono basis to United Kingdom nationals imprisoned in foreign countries.

It was produced by Nellee Hooper, who has worked with Gwen Stefani and Madonna ; Bono was an executive producer.

Many musicians and celebrities were involved in the show including Princess Diana, Brian Eno, Michael Bolton, Meatloaf, Zuccero, Nenad Bach, The Edge, and Bono, who recited at the end of the title song ( Miss Sarajevo ) the famous Ivan Gundulić verses: ” O lijepa, o draga, o slatka slobodo ” (“ Oh beautiful, oh precious, oh sweet Liberty ”).

During his period as a member of the Government, José Bono was involved in certain controversial events, some of them regarding his role as Minister of Defence ( e. g. the controversy created by the public declarations of Lt. General José Mena Aguado about the 1978 Spanish Constitution, defending the possibility of an intervention of the armed forces to maintain the territorial integrity of Spain ), and others regarding his membership of the Socialist Workers ' Party, the most significant of them being the detention of two members of the Popular Party ( PP ) who were participating with him in a popular demonstration, after they had allegedly attempted to assault him.

At the time he was considered to be one of three barons of the PSOE, together with Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra and José Bono, who were also autonomous presidents.

Central Park West is the address of several famous residences, including The Dakota ( where John Lennon lived with Yoko Ono, who still resides there, and outside of which he was murdered in 1980 ), The San Remo ( home to U2's Bono, Demi Moore, Diane Keaton, & Steve Martin ), The El Dorado, The Beresford ( home to Diana Ross & Jerry Seinfeld ), The Langham, The Century, 15 Central Park West ( home to Sting ), 41 Central Park West ( home to Madonna ), 455 Central Park West, The St. Urban, and The Majestic ( which was home to some of the former heads of the Genovese crime family, including Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello.

* Bono ( Walliams )-Bono is portrayed as an irritating Englishman who loves to phone Salman Rushdie and can't understand why his fellow U2 bandmates persist in speaking with an Irish accent.

Those leading government figures who had voted for the resolution included Giuseppe Bottai and Emilio De Bono as well as Grandi.