U2 Turned Down £12.5 Million To Stay Cool

Bono has revealed that U2 were very recently offered a massive £12.5 million to sell there asses but refused.

The band who are currently on their sold out world tour were offered the sum to allow their song ‘Where The Streets Have No Name’ to be used in an advert, reports Ananova, but decided against the idea.

Bono said: “We almost did. We sat down. I know from my work in Africa what £12.5 million could buy. It was very hard to walk away from £12.5 million.

"So we thought, `We'll give the money away.' But if we tell people we're giving the money away, it sounds pompous. So we'll just give it away, and take the hit. That's what we agreed.

"But if a show is a little off, and there's a hole, that's the one song we can guarantee that God will walk through the room as soon as we play it. So the idea that when we played it, people would go, `That's the such-and-such commercial,' we couldn't live with it.

"Had it been a cool thing, or didn't have a bad association, or it was a different song, we might've done it."

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