Bono Attacks Record Industry “Business As Usual” At Rock Hall Induction

Hits Magazine reports that In his speech at the Rock ‘n Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, Bono "admonished the bigwigs in the audience, telling them that they need to reinvent the way the operate if they want to survive and pointing out that U2, Springsteen and Neil Young would have been uncerermoniously dropped well before achieving greatness if they’d come along in recent years. “There would be no U2 the way things are now—that’s a fact,” he said. Later, during the band’s performance, Bono went into the audience and grabbed glasses of champagne off the tables, but he somehow resisted the temptation to douse the record execs he’d lectured, flinging the champagne at his fellow bandmembers instead."