6 August

Another way to see the shift in culture. U2. A fantastic band. Still active, so much so that they’ve been the highest-earning musicians in the world 5 times this century. Bono is worth $700 million. Let’s add some reality back here. They began in 1976, about 50 years ago. The equivalent of them still headlining gigs and being the highest earning musicians in the world in my day, as a teenager, would have been Fred Astaire headlining festivals and topping the charts. I can promise you, he wasn’t. Most people my age had never heard of him, let alone listened to him or watched him. Many of our parents hadn’t either, he was *their* parents’ generation.