MEANWHILE: I don’t really know why I even started watching Bono’s one-man show that just dropped on Apple TV, of course it’s mostly nonsensical stuff about the “magic!” of creativity and plenty of entertaining if not overly well-rehearsed (or do I have those backwards?) moments of manic self-deprecation, but the guy is unrelentingly earnestly interesting (or interestingly earnest) and he somehow pulls it off so I watched the whole thing.
BUT.
That’s not why I asked you nice people here today.
99.99% of any time any musician talks about the influence of The Ramones on them they either talk about the first four albums are a perfect collective foursome of music (which it is) or they talk specifically about the first album, but they never ever seem to single out any of the other three albums while doing this, which has always bugged me.
BUT.
The other 0.01% of the time belongs almost solely to Bono.
His one-man show marks the THIRD time he’s specifically gone out of the way to mention Leave Home:
He loves talking about how U2 played Glad to See You Go at their first audition for some local tv show, and pretending it was their own song
He famously played I Remember You to Joey Ramone as he was dying
And in this Apple TV thing of his he makes sure to say it was Leave Home that really changed everything for him.
So let’s hear it for Bono, for not just spreading the love for The Ramones around but especially Leave Home! 🤗🕺🎸❤️
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