U2's Bono Praises 'Chairman Of The Board' Frank Sinatra

U2 frontman Bono has spoken candidly about his relationship with Frank Sinatra in a column in the New York Times.

In the first of his “occasional” editorials for the newspaper, entitled Notes from the Chairman, the singer highlighted how Sinatra's music was capable of uniting people in difficult times.

Recalling a visit to an Irish pub before New Year, Bono wrote: “The Celtic Tiger’s tail is between its legs as builders and bankers laugh uneasy and hard at the last year, and swallow uneasy and hard at the new.

“There’s a voice on the speakers that wakes everyone out of the moment: it’s Frank Sinatra singing 'My Way'.”

He also noted how Sinatra was capable of “fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you’ve pressed ‘record’ is what makes it eternal.”

Bono also revealed how Sinatra, who died in 1998, had said he didn't “usually hang with men who wear earrings” when the pair recorded a duet of 'I've Got You Under My Skin'.

The U2 singer's column is accompanied by a podcast, which can be downloaded now.

As previously reported on Gigwise, U2 are due to release their new album, 'No Line On The Horizen', on March 2nd.

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