“When John Lennon sings, "Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open" — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.”

— Bono

Rolling Stone interview (2005)

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Irish rock musician, singer of U2 1960

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