Elvis is in the building and his name is Bono!

Elvis and Bono
What is not to admire if one is to talk about music?

The Pan of their respective generations

Elvis, the first definitive crossover artist
A "white man" singing with a grunt and a soul
The man that personified, for the first time, the term - "He is the MAN!"

Bono, the rockstar with a conscience
Who is unafraid to show it and is actually doing something about it.
Time Person of the Year

I knew about Elvis thru the Jailhouse rock
The crying man in the chapel
The lounge singer belting and leaving everything out in American Trilogy

With Bono and U2, when I heard, "There has been too much talk about this next song.
Maybe, many too much talk. This song is not a rebel song
This song is Sunday Bloody Sunday..."

...the passion
...the fire
...the courage for being themselves
what is not to admire?

If Elvis made the cool blues accessible
Bono did the same for G8

Hopefully, the next generation of economists is more Bono than Keynes
More about the driving force behind Smith's classic - Wealth of Nations
Less of the vanity and audacious certainty that comes from econometric models

I just hope the next economist build on Bono
As Bono build on Elvis in being a rockstar

Before Elvis
There was nobody bigger
There was no rockstar path
No ghetto superstar path

Elvis was making the path

That's it.
2am rumblings