Well, you can always rely on Bono to provide the link between a music e-newsletter and the big topical news story of the moment.
Yep, the U2 frontman has been bigging up the late Pope **John
Paul II** following the pontiff's death this weekend. The two met through their mutual support of the campaign to convince the wealthiest nations of the world to cancel the debts of the poorest countries.
Calling
John Paul II the "best frontman the Roman Catholic Church ever had", Bono said this weekend: "Without John Paul
II its hard to imagine the Drop the Debt campaign succeeding as it did".