Artistic License: Old rockers out of tune

There are some celebrities whose sexuality I don’t want to think about. Gerry Ryan is one of those people. Bono is another. There are plenty of things wrong with U2’s badly-judged first single, Get On Your Boots, from their endlessly-hyped new album

There are some celebrities whose sexuality I don’t want to think about. Gerry Ryan is one of those people. Bono is another. There are plenty of things wrong with U2’s badly-judged first single, Get On Your Boots, from their endlessly-hyped new album No Line on the Horizon. But one thing that really puts me off the song is the leering, testosterone-fuelled quality Bono evinces as he sings the chorus line, ‘‘Sexy boots/Get on ...