U2 lead singer, Bono has paid tribute to the late Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti.
London, Sep 7 : U2 lead singer, Bono has paid tribute to the late Opera legend Luciano Pavarotti.
Bono, who once recorded with the late tenor, posted his respect and adulation for Pavarotti on the official U2 website.
"No one could inhabit those acrobatic melodies and words like Pavarotti. He lived the songs, his opera was a great mash of joy and sadness; surreal and earthy at the same time; a great volcano of a man who sang fire but spilled over with a love of life in all its complexity, a great and generous friend," The Sun quoted Bono, as stating on the website.
"Some can sing opera, Luciano Pavarotti was an opera," he added.
The star recalled how the opera singer approached his band with a film crew to try and convince them to play at a festival he was organizing, and that Pavarotti made his and U2's collaboration, on their single "Miss Sarajevo," by continually phoning Bono's housekeeper.
"A great flatterer. When he wanted U2 to write him a song he rang our housekeeper, Theresa, continually so we talked about little else in our house.hen he wanted U2 to play his festival in Modena, Italy, he turned up in Dublin unannounced with a film crew and door-stepped the band," he said.
Bono expressed how the tenor managed to communicate his love despite his frail state.
"I spoke to him last week . . . the voice that was louder than any rock band was a whisper. Still he communicated his love. Full of love," he said.
"That's what people don't understand about Luciano Pavarotti. Even when the voice was dimmed in power, his interpretive skills left him a giant among a few tall men," he added.
Pavarotti, 71, died on Sep 6 at his home in Modena, Northern Rome, after losing his long battle with cancer.
ANI