Members of the Irish rock band U2 unexpectedly played on the Kiev metro station on Sunday, which now serves as a shelter from Russian shelling. They were invited to the Ukrainian capital by President Volodymyr Zelensky. This was stated on Twitter by the band’s frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge.
“President Zelensky invited us to perform in Kiev in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, so we did,” the musicians wrote on Twitter.
President @ZelenskyyUa invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do. — Bono and The Edge #StandWithUkraine
— U2 (@U2) May 8, 2022
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Sixty-one-year-old Bono presented the hits With or Without You, Desire or Sunday Bloody Sunday on the platform of the Kiev metro station. A small crowd of fans, including Ukrainian soldiers, watched the surprise concert.
The song Stand By Me by the American soul singer Ben E. King is with Bon he sang Ukrainian singer Taras Topolja, frontman of the popular Ukrainian band Antytila. All its members joined the Ukrainian army after the beginning of the Russian invasion. Recently, however, they joined forces with the British songwriter Ed Sheeran and released a joint charity single.
During Sunday’s speech, Bono highlighted the Ukrainians’ struggle for freedom and prayed for peace. “People in Ukraine are not just fighting for your freedom, they are fighting for all of us who love freedom,” he said. “We pray that you will enjoy some of that peace soon,” he added.
Irish singer and guitarist Paul David Hewson, nicknamed Bono, often holds charity concerts and has established several endowment funds. He has therefore been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times.
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