At some point in the early 1980s, the leadership of a charismatic Irish Christian group known as Shalom insisted that three of its members make a choice: follow Jesus or continue their band. “These people felt rock and roll was kind of nonsense, and the real job was fixing a broken world,” recalled the band’s singer, who called himself Bono.
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