I’ve just finished reading Bono on Bono – conversations with Michka Assayas and to be honest I loved it! First, because it’s essentially the transcript of conversations it is eminently readable. Secondly, because Bono has a sense of humour and doesn’t take himself too seriously but clearly loves a good conversation it makes it eminently enjoyable. Thirdly, because Bono cares with a passion about the world’s poor, about those with AIDS, those in debt, those starving in Africa and he takes ‘rock star involved in charity’ to a new level. It was a move that was full of risk and one that could have failed, the fact that it didn’t says a lot about the gutsy little Irish fellow. Thoroughly recommended.

For rock stars who else would you put up there with Bono on the campaigning and musical achievements front?