AP PHOTOS: Bono's many brushes with greatness
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?The Associated PressFILE - This is a Thursday, March 14, 2002 file photo of President Bush as he shakes hands with Bono, right, lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, after Bush spoke at the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
FILE - This is a Thursday, March 14, 2002 file photo of President Bush as he shakes hands with Bono, right, lead singer of the Irish rock group U2, after Bush spoke at the Inter-American Development Bank, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
FILE - This is a Friday, Dec. 12, 2008 file photo of Irish singer and activist Bono, center, as neposes with 1993 Nobel Peace Laureate F. W. de Klerk, left, and 1983 Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Walesa after Bono was awarded with the Peace Summit Award during the 9th Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, in Paris. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)
FILE - This is a Tuesday, April 17, 2007 file photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Bono, left, singer of Irish rock band U2, talk during Bono's visit to the Berlin Chancellery . (AP Photo/Fritz Reiss, File)
FILE This is a Saturday Jan. 26, 2008, file photo of Irish musician Bono, left, and Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates, are seen at the start of a meeting at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)
FILE - This is a Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 file photo of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, meeting with Bono, the lead singer of Irish band U2,t, in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near the Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service, File)
Chances are if you're a president, premier or plain ol' peacemaker with an eye on publicity, you've managed to get a bit of Bono in your life.
The billionaire U2 rocker-cum-humanitarian is spending Monday by the side of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner who's spent decades seeking democracy in her military-controlled homeland. He devoted one of U2's most famous songs, "Walk On," to her lonely life struggle.
But a perusal of the AP photo archives indicates it's hard to find a world leader or leading reformer who hasn't spent time hearing from Bono. Here's a gallery of images placing the irrepressible Dubliner alongside Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Lech Walesa and Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush ... and many other people less well known than himself.
Associated PressPeople, Places and Companies: Bono, Aung San Suu Kyi, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Lech Walesa, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ireland, United Kingdom
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