In the meantime, U2 frontman Bono has paid tribute to the a whole lot of music followers killed throughout the assaults at Supernova music pageant in Israel on Saturday.
Not less than 260 of the 3000 pageant members have been killed. Talking throughout the Irish rock band’s current Las Vegas present, Bono advised the gang: “We sing for our brothers and sisters, who they themselves have been singing on the Supernova Sukkot pageant in Israel. We sing for these. Our individuals.”
On the Sphere in Las Vegas, U2 carried out their 2003 hit Delight (In The Title of Love), updating the lyrics to check with the state of affairs in Israel as a substitute of the loss of life of Martin Luther King Jr.
“Early morning, Oct. 7, the solar is rising within the desert sky,” Bono sang. “Stars of David, they took your life, however they might not take your pleasure.”
He repeated the “Couldn’t take your pleasure” line thrice earlier than main the band into the anthemic refrain.
Following the efficiency, Bono acknowledged that “within the mild of what’s occurred in Israel and Gaza, a music about non-violence appears considerably ridiculous, even laughable, however our prayers have all the time been for peace and for non-violence”.
U2 final carried out in Israel at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv in 1997, however turned down an invite to play in Israel a decade later.
