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Bono really doesn’t like to hear himself sing. In a new interview, the U2 singer said, “The [song] that I can listen to the most is ‘Miss Sarajevo’ with Luciano Pavarotti. Genuine, most of the other ones make me cringe a little bit.” He also added his thoughts it was only recently that he acquired the skill of proper singing.

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“I’ve been in the car when one of our songs has come on the radio and I’ve been the colour of, as we say in Dublin, scarlet. I’m just so embarrassed… I do think U2 pushes out the boat on embarrassment quite a lot and maybe that’s the place to be as an artist, you know right at the edge of your level of embarrassment.”

Bono writes in his memoir, Surrender, that the one song that always lives up to the hype and delivers for the crowd is “Where The Streets Have No Name.”

He said, “We must have played it a thousand times, and no matter how shite a show, how off form the band or, more likely, the singer, to this day when we play ‘Streets,’ it’s as if God walks through the room.”