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Bono has teamed up with Imelda May for a festive cover of a Christmas classic for a good cause.
On Christmas Eve, the U2 frontman performed a cover of Darlene Love’s 1963 classic ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ as a busker along with fellow Irish singers on Grafton Street in Dublin, according to footage filmed by a fan at X.
The pair’s set was part of a 15-year holiday tradition to raise funds for the Dublin Simon Community, a charity that supports people at risk of homelessness in Ireland.
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After approaching a microphone that appeared to be malfunctioning, Bono, 65, and May, 51, began singing to the crowd on a makeshift stage around the Gaiety Theatre.
As the “With or Without You” hitmaker began singing the song’s first verse, May interjected, singing, “They’re singing Deck the Halls/But it ain’t Christmassy at all.”
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According to NME, Oscar-winning singer-songwriter and event organizer Glen Hansard and The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue also performed, as well as The Riptide Movement, The Coronas and Shobsy’s Danny O’Reilly.
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The evening ended with a set featuring The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s ‘New York Fairy Tales’, and May wished Shane McGowan a ‘happy birthday tomorrow’, the paper said.
According to Billboard, Bono attended a fundraiser in 2018 with bandmate and guitarist The Edge, performing “O Holy Night” and “Night Divine,” before performing Love’s “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with other artists from the same year.
According to NME, at the annual Grafton Street gig, Bono performed U2’s perennial 1987 classic ‘Running to Stand Still’, McGowan performed The Pogues’ 1985 song ‘Dirty Old Town’ and Hozier performed his 2013 hit ‘Take Me to Church’.
