DIARY - Bono's Hat 2 or the worst band in the world....
Date: 2006-10-27 12:56:09
Author: Pat Kent
Well, after many moons, and a no doubt a lot of cash as well, it would seem that a significant number of lawyers were richer this week after it was reported that a Judge ordered Bono's old stylist to give back his "iconic" Stetson hat, trousers and earrings as well as a green sweatshirt.
The case prompted me and my mate Nix to consider writing a blog dedicated to all the really crap and ludicrous things that go in this world and calling it "Bono's Hat".
To give you some idea how long this issue of world shattering and major importance has been hanging around Bono started legal action against Lola Cashman, the stylist turned super-criminal, when she tried to auction the pieces at Christie's in 2002. She was the stylist who was responsible for revamping their image in the 1980s. Imagine how much court time, money and effort has been wasted in all of this since then. Now wonder there's a backlog in the criminal justice system.
Anyway, this week Nix sent me a link to a site which reported the outcome of the case...some four years after it started.
It seems that the judge took issue with her claim that Bono gave her the hat when he came off stage after the final concert of the Joshua Tree tour and was running around in his underpants. I'd take bigger issue with the notion of Bono running around in his underpants...The poor woman must have suffered mental trauma for years afterwards and Bono should have been tried for crimes against humanity.
Given the scale of the problems that losing an old Stetson and some other rubbish must have had for the multi-millionaire, the band issued a statement after the judge's decision which included the comment: "The point of principle involved was of much greater significance to us than any item of memorabilia."
Hmmm! Yes, your lives and entire future rested on it didn't it. Bunch of twats. If it wasn't for the fact that someone else beat me to it, the name "Bono's Hat" as a suitable title for a this page, discussing and dissecting anything which is insignificant but generates a disproportionate amount of interest would have been great, but unfortunately it exists already…and anyway, I would have probably had the arse sued off me by U2…the biggest band [of pseuds] in the world.
Pat K
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