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BONO: OFF THE WALL!


Byline: Sue Carroll

PLANET-SAVER Bono and his U2 pals played a gig Slang for "gigabyte" or "gigabit." See GB.

gig - gigabyte
 in Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the demolition of the hated Berlin Wall.

And to shield the band from the prying pry·ing  
adj.
Insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive: ignored the prying journalists' questions.



pry
 eyes of those who did not have tickets, the organisers built... a whopping great wall.

Surely one of Bono's minions might have found the courage to whisper See WISPr.  in the great man's ear that this was not the brightest of ideas.

Or is he so blinded to the real world (by those sunglasses sunglasses  A tinted pair of glasses used to ↓ light arriving at the eye, which are labeled according to the amount of UV light blocked; nonprescription glasses are classified according to use and amount of UV radiation blocked

Sunglasses
, maybe?) he just didn't get it?
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Nov 10, 2009
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