September 6, 2007 16:22

U2's Bono pays tribute to Pavarotti

Bono, lead singer of U2 with whom Pavarotti once recorded with, has paid tribute to the late tenor.

The star, writing on the official U2 website, recalled how the opera singer doorstepped his band with a film crew to try and convince them to play at a festival he was organising, and that Pavarotti made his and U2’s collaboration, on their single ‘Miss Sarajevo’, by continually phoning Bono’s housekeeper.

“Some people can sing opera, Luciano Pavarotti was an opera,” Bono wrote. “No one could inhabit those acrobatic words and melodies like him.

“He lived the songs, his opera was a great mash of joy and sadness; surreal and earthy at the same time; a great volcano of a man who sang fire but spilled over with a love of life in all its complexity, a great and generous friend.”