![]() ![]() He stuck around for several hours and took home “a doggy bag of leftover ribs,” Manrique said. He belted all the words to Irish ballad “The Fields of Athenry,” declined free dessert and passed on shots of Malört from patrons. Manrique noticed the fake Bono was wearing the same necklaces the real Bono wore at his Sphere shows. Sedgwick St., for the “incredible food and ambience” and to collect footage for the film’s extended version. Sfera said the director and cinematographer took him to Twin Anchors, 1655 N. That much is true: The festival will screen a documentary about Sfera’s life as Bono at 3 p.m. Sfera told Twin Anchors patrons he was in town for the Serbian Film Festival. Credit: Gina Manrique / Ricardo Stuckert/PR Agência Brasil Could he have swung through Chicago on the way? Bono impersonator and Bono. The real Bono played with U2 at a concert inside the Las Vegas Sphere Wednesday night and took part in Shane MacGowan’s funeral in Ireland on Friday morning. “I think a moment of, ‘is it or is it not him?’ lends itself to a fun story to tell at dinner parties.” “I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I wasn’t the real Bono,” Sfera, a California-based Bono impersonator with over two decades on the job, wrote in an email. He declined a phone interview, only answering questions via email. Images of the Bono-in-question - disguised behind a signature pair of rose-tinted glasses - have scored thousands of likes online, while leaving more cynical Chicagoans questioning the singer’s true whereabouts.īut Pavel Sfera - who has impersonated Bono for decades and claims to have been a body double for the famous crooner - fessed up to Block Club Friday that he was the One. Uptown, Edgewater, Rogers Park Open dropdown menu.South Chicago, East Side Open dropdown menu.Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards Open dropdown menu. ![]() Lincoln Square, North Center, Irving Park Open dropdown menu.Lakeview, Wrigleyville, Northalsted Open dropdown menu.Jefferson Park, Portage Park, Norwood Park Open dropdown menu.Englewood, Chatham, Auburn Gresham Open dropdown menu.River North, Gold Coast, Near North Side.Bridgeport, Chinatown, McKinley Park Open dropdown menu."Sinatra, blue-suit and red bow-tie, five feet ten inches tall and 138 pounds, the heavyweight in the hearts of the teenagers, stepped to the stage amid weeping, some fainting, much crying, and said, 'You should be proud of Gary, but you can't stay proud by pulling this sort of strike.Is That Bono? Impersonator Charms And Fools Crowd At Twin Anchors Close November 5, 1945, Richard Durham of the Chicago Daily Defender described Frank Sinatra's appearance at Froebel High in Gary this way: Sinatra wanted to sing with Ella Fitzgerald. He was the best, and wanted to play with the finest: Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Sinatra had always insisted on playing with integrated orchestras. A lot of white students had walked out of Gary's Froebel High School when it opened up to black students.Ī citizens' group asked Frank Sinatra to come to their school because he was a teenage heartthrob, but also a performer with principles. Not in Las Vegas or New York, New York, but Gary, Indiana. He ran with mobsters and could be a bully he coveted other men's wives and could be brutish to his own, and other women and men.īut today, I'd like to recall a moment when Frank Sinatra was truly magnificent.
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