SEPTEMBER 7: Hard show at Lyceum Ballroom / Bono Presents Debt Relief Petition to UN!

"boy" tour - september 7, 1980. U2 perform in London, England as support for "Echo & The Bunnymen" in the Lyceum Ballroom. The crowd is extremely unresponsive and Bono simply drops the microphone on the stage and walks off after the band finishes their set.

"Bono Presents Debt Relief Petition to U.N." - september 7, 2000. Irish star Bono of U2 delivered a petition of 21.2 million signatures to the U.N. Millennium Summit Thursday calling on the world's wealthiest countries to forgive the debts of poor nations. The signatures, collected at religious and other organizations in 155 countries, were delivered by Bono and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the second day of the largest gathering of world leaders in history. "It's madness that a pop star has to be standing here...somebody else should be doing this, somebody else more qualified," Bono told reporters on the street outside the U.N. headquarters. "But you know what? They don't have time. They're not bad guys in Washington, they're just busy guys." Bono vowed to get debt relief "up the list of priorities." Annan thanked Bono for his effort, saying "we must understand people out there want something done." Leaders of the wealthy industrialized countries, but not the United States, have said they are willing to erase $100 billion in Third World debt, which would leave about $250 billion owed by poor nations.