{"id":78874,"date":"2015-01-02T15:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=78874"},"modified":"2015-01-02T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:10:59","slug":"bono-bike-accident-may-never-play-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=78874","title":{"rendered":"Bono bike accident: ‘I may never play guitar again’"},"content":{"rendered":"

U2 frontman Bono says he fears that he may never play guitar again following a bike accident last November.<\/p>\n

He made the comment in his A to Z of 2014, published on the band’s website.<\/p>\n

Bono broke his arm in six places and fractured his eye socket, hand and shoulder blade in what he called a “freak accident” in New York.<\/p>\n

In the letter to his fans, he said he was unable to move around physically and would have to “concentrate hard” to be fit for U2’s next tour.<\/p>\n

At the time, the hospital where Bono was being treated said he had been involved in “a high-energy bicycle accident when he attempted to avoid another rider”.<\/p>\n

The Irish rocker spoke this week about being on painkillers for weeks and said he had a “massive injury, I can’t blame on anyone but myself”.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old Dubliner revealed he now had a titanium elbow.<\/p>\n

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Irish singer-songwriter Bono and his band U2 pictured in Berlin late last year<\/div>\n

Bono said he “blanked out on impact and have no memory of how I ended up in New York Presbyterian with my humerus bone sticking through my leather jacket. Very punk rock as injuries go”.<\/p>\n

The consequences of this freak accident are significant enough that I will have to concentrate hard to be ready for the U2 tour in fitness terms\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bono continued: “Recovery has been more difficult than I thought. As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again. The band have reminded me that neither they nor western civilization are depending on this.<\/p>\n

“I personally would very much miss fingering the frets of my green Irish falcon or my (red) Gretsch. Just for the pleasure, aside from writing tunes.<\/p>\n

“But then does the Edge, or Jimmy Page, or any guitarist you know have a titanium elbow, as I do now? I’m all elbows, I am.”<\/p>\n

The wide-ranging, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, A-Z letter covers topics ranging from the iTunes release of the Songs of Innocence album, to an update on his family.<\/p>\n

He talked about learning from his mistakes adding “the first of which is the discovery that I am not an armoured vehicle”.<\/p>\n

Bono says the letter will be his only communication for the first part of this year.<\/p>\n

“The consequences of this freak accident are significant enough that I will have to concentrate hard to be ready for the U2 tour in fitness terms,” he said.<\/p>\n

“As a result I have cancelled every public appearance and decided this missive is all the communication I can manage for the first half of 2015, beyond muttering and singing to myself of course.”<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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