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'He was a hero to us,' Bono said, 'a hero since our teenage years. The author affectionately known as 'Gabo' spent many years in Mexico City, where he died in 2014, but his ashes are interred in Cartagena, Colombia, where he attended college and got his start as a journalist. During 'Bad' Bono called for Willie to turn the house lights down so he could see 'the butterflies … Gabo's butterflies'-as butterflies were emblematic of the magical creatures that populated the worlds García Márquez created. That's why everybody one.'īono lauded the late Colombian author and poet Gabriel García Márquez, considered the father of literary genre known as magical realism, with novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera. The most beautiful word in the English language is 'compromise'… No one won. In our country, we have peace because people had the courage to compromise. Let them hear you! Sing for the peacemakers in Ireland. 'Sing for the peacemakers in Bogota, in Cali, in Medellin,' he said during Pride, listing Colombia's major cities. Anyway, we stand with you in these fragile times. But it can prevent such pain in the future. And we know that peace can never remedy the pain of the past, we know that. Ya know, this word, this beautiful word we spoke of earlier-compromise-it's a beautiful word. Until we realized that peace is not a dream, it's an action. Growing up in this little country, we didn't dare to dream of peace. 'Now growing up in our country, a country in the north Atlantic in Europe, called Ireland. 'Change comes slowly, but it comes,' Bono began his introduction to 'One', which closed the show. We got to carry each other, carry each other. 'One' - 'We're one, but we're not the same/We get to carry each This is for Colombia. Anoche, fue algo maravilloso: Luna llena, cielo despejado, en Bogotá y yo cantando a grito Ver a en Bogotá, 30 años después de la primera vez en Miami 1987, y ellos todavía “blow my fucking mind away" Que privilegio. Colombia is the only stop on the #U2TheJoshuaTreeTour that the band is playing for the first time. Standing on the tips of their toes, singing at the tops of their lungs as the band thundered through the opening quartet (Sunday Bloody Sunday, NYD, Bad, and Pride) before heading into 'The Joshua Tree.' The joy trinity-'Beautiful Day (with a snippet from 'Whenever, Wherever' by Colombia's own Shakira), Elevation, and Vertigo'-opened the encore followed by the new single from the upcoming 'Songs of Experience' album 'You're the Best Thing About Me,' and 'Ultraviolet.' And a very special rendition of 'One' ended this historic night. Why did it take us so long?" Bono told the roiling crowd of more than 40,000 at Bogota's Estadio El Campin Satuday night. Night 44 of #U2TheJoshuaTreeTour.Ĭolombian fans had to wait for 41 years for U2 to come to their beautiful land and by all accounts it was worth it. Friday, October 7th, 2017, Estadio El Campin, Bogotá, Columbia.