BONO - AFRICAN STARS RECORD U2 COVERS ALBUM IN TRIBUTE TO BONO

AFRICAN STARS RECORD U2 COVERS ALBUM IN TRIBUTE TO BONO

Some of Africa's top musicians have paid tribute to rocker BONO's humanitarian efforts by recording a new album of U2 cover songs. In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 sees stars including singer Angelique Kidjo, hip-hop band African Underground All-Stars and Soweto Gospel Choir cover some of the Irish band's best-known material. And Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars team-up with Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry for a run through U2's 1983 song Seconds. A percentage of the album's sales will be donated to the Global Fund charity, which fights HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The disc's co-producer Shawn Amos says, "A lot of the familiar hooks are there but played in cadences and with instruments that are indigenous to African people. "It's a testament to how global U2 is, that you can instantly recognise a song when it has been deconstructed, translated and played with different instrumentation."