U2 frontman Bono moves in mysterious ways — or, as Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino may put it, walks to the beat of his own drum.
That’s because Rapino, during a panel conversation at Bloomberg Screentime in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, said he tried to dissuade the singer and his band from opening the Sphere in Las Vegas last year. Bono, Rapino said, couldn’t be dissuaded.
“That was fully Bono — I tried to talk him out of it,” Rapino said. “I was worried about it. He was determined to do it.”
Rapino said he shared with Bono a fear he’d discussed with one of his friends: what if the new, 18,600-seat auditorium and its innovative wraparound LED screens was so trippy that fans started to throw up?
Again, Bono wasn’t worried about it, telling Rapino he has “got a guy who’s going to look at it.”
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