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Rock superstar Jon Bon Jovi appears to have confused his geography after claiming that U2 frontman Bono was beaten up by Orangemen as a child.
Despite growing up in Finglas on Dublin’s north side, Bon Jovi said that Bono grew up with “men in orange walking around” his neighborhood.
The New Jersey rocker (58) – famous for hits like Living in a sentence – made the strange statement during an interview in the Armchair Expert podcast with Dax Shepard.
When asked about the challenges of writing political songs that risked dividing his audience, the singer said, “Well that would be an obvious answer, especially when I was a younger kid when you had a unique approach, which was just making records. and entertain people.
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“You know, I often mentioned an example, so Bono is probably right at my age, he’s a couple of months older than me I think.
“His education was obviously very different from mine. I mean, I never had the Orangemen walking around my neighborhood saying, you know, they catch the Catholic kid and beat him up.
“I didn’t have any of that kind of confusion in the suburbs of New Jersey, when you had a wonderful middle class upbringing with two working parents.”
A little older than Bon Jovi, Bono grew up in Finglas in North Dublin with a Catholic father and a Church of Ireland mother.
Music fans on Twitter were quick to tell Bon Jovi that he was giving the Orange Order a bad name.
One said, “Your heart is in the right place, but your geography would be pretty bad.”
Giving a more charitable view of the mistake, another added: “I imagine it is a fairly common mistake among people abroad, it is not that important.”
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