Music
Bono snubbed when handing out R.E.M. CDs
by Anne T. Donahue
March 23, 2011
Bono can now add “street vendor” to his list of credentials after the U2 frontman was spotted on a New York City street corner Saturday night attempting to hand out copies of R.E.M’s Collapse Into Now to passerby.
The downside? Nobody cared.
After celebrating his wife’s birthday with the likes of bandmates and R.E.M’s Michael Stipe, sources claim that the singer headed out and began to ask “people loitering outside if they wanted a CD” only to be “largely ignored” and looked at “like he was a crazy person.” Luckily, one passerby “recognized him and snapped up the disc,” thus preventing what we can only assume to be R.E.M’s latest marketing strategy from total failure. [via NME]
