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Origin Los Angeles
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
Punk Rock
Power pop
Years active 1989—present
Label(s) Geffen Records
Mercury Records
Sympathy For The Record Industry
DGC Records
City Slang
Associated acts Melissa Auf der Maur
The Smashing Pumpkins
Pagan Babies
Babes in Toyland
Janitor Joe
Tinker
Rodney & the Tube Tops
RRIICCEE
Larrikin Love
Members
Courtney Love
Micko Larkin
Shawn Dailey
Stu Fisher
Former members
Melissa Auf der Maur
Eric Erlandson
Lisa Roberts
Caroline Rue
Mike Geisbrecht
Errol Stewart
Jill Emery
Patty Schemel
Leslie Hardy
Kristen Pfaff
Samantha Maloney



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U2's Bono Compares David Bowie To Elvis

November 23, 2010
U2's Bono Compares David Bowie To ElvisU2 frontman Bono has compared David Bowie to Elvis Presley and said the singer played a pivotal role in making them a success.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Bono said the Irish band owed a lot to the musician.

"It's the high singing, beyond your 'man' voice into the feminine. And there's the staging, the attempt to be innovative,” he said.

"Bowie wasn't afraid to use scale, to dramatise things. His setlist was not just a jukebox he could run through. It was drama."

Bono added: "It's not exaggerating to say what Elvis meant to America, David Bowie meant to the UK and Ireland. It was that radical a shift in consciousness.

"The first time I saw him was singing 'Starman' on television it was like a creature falling from the sky. Americans put a man on the moon. We had our own British guy from space - with an Irish mother."

Meanwhile, U2 are currently recording a new album with Danger Mouse.

(by Jason Gregory)



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