U2 to obtain Kennedy Heart lifetime achievement award
U2 are to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award on the John F Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts in Washington DC tonight (December 4).
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The band are amongst a number of honourees who shall be awarded for his or her inventive achievements alongside George Clooney, Amy Grant, Gladys Knight and composer and conductor Tania León by President Joe Biden and First Girl Jill Biden.
The ceremony is about to happen at 6.30pm native time (11.30pm GMT) within the Kennedy Heart Opera Home. It is going to be later aired on US tv on December 28.
“We think about America to be a house away from house and we’re very grateful to the #KennedyCenterHonors for welcoming us into this nice clan,” U2 mentioned of the honour.
Please be a part of us in congratulating your forty fifth class of Kennedy Heart Honorees. 🤩🌈✨
Tune in Dec. 28 at 8 p.m. EST as a star-studded #KCHonors lineup pays tribute to @U2, @AmyGrant, @MsGladysKnight, #GeorgeClooney, and #TaniaLeón on @CBS and @ParamountPlus.
📸 Gail Schulman pic.twitter.com/1OMUVoJS9H
— The Kennedy Heart (@kencen) December 4, 2022
They added: “In December 1980, we made our first journey throughout the Atlantic to America. Our first present was at The Ritz in New York Metropolis, the second, The Bayou in D.C.
“We had huge desires then, fuelled partly by the generally held perception at house that America smiles on Eire. And it turned out to be true, but once more.
“However even within the wilder ideas, we by no means imagined that 40 years on, we’d be invited again to obtain one of many nation’s biggest honours…”
“We think about America to be a house away from house and we’re very grateful to the #KennedyCenterHonors for welcoming us into this nice clan.”—Irish rock band @U2 (Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.)
Meet your entire Honorees at https://t.co/omAfV6pWcs! #KCHonors pic.twitter.com/iOvjEQJoiD
— The Kennedy Heart (@kencen) July 21, 2022
The Chairman of the Kennedy Heart, David M Rubenstein, added that U2 had received over America and the world with their “iconic anthems, potent lyrics, and highly effective messages of social justice and international citizenship”.
In the meantime, Bono lately hinted that U2 will play in Las Vegas in 2023.
“I can’t announce Vegas, you’d should shoot me! But when it occurs, I can promise you it received’t be like something you’ve ever seen in Las Vegas or wherever, ever,” he mentioned.
“There’s no place but large enough. For us to go, it must be one thing that no-one’s ever gone [to] earlier than.”
He additionally lately accomplished a 14-date ebook tour dubbed ‘Tales Of Give up’, primarily based on his new memoir Give up: 40 Songs, One Story.