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July 17, 2001
 Source: The Mirror
 Showbiz Exclusive: U2 Star Flies In For Bedside Vigil
 by Jenny Friel
 BONO was forced to fly home in the middle of U2's world tour to be with his
seriously ill father, the Irish
 Mirror can reveal.
 The singer rushed to Dublin from Germany after being told his dad Bob
Hewson had become very weak in
 hospital.
 The 75-year-old has been sick for several years but took a bad turn at the
weekend and required expert
 medical care.
 Bono's older brother Norman, 47, told the Irish Mirror last night: "Bono
was home at the weekend to see
 dad who is not in great shape.
 "Our father is not too well and he is in hospital, but I'm not prepared to
say where.
 "Please God he will be better soon, we're praying that he'll pull through
and make a full recovery."
 U2 frontman Bono, 40, was in the middle of the European leg of the band's
international Elevation tour.
 After playing the Cologne concert on Friday night, he travelled back to
Dublin and had a one-day break
 before the next concert in Munich last Sunday.
 A source close to the family said: "By all accounts things don't look too
good for Bono's father.
 "He's been pretty sick for the past few years, but this time it looks
really serious.
 "The Hewsons are very close. This is a tough time for them.
 "Bono came home to see his dad and to visit his wife Ali and new baby John
Abraham."
 Bono has always been very close to his father and brother ever since his
mother Iris passed away when
 he was just 14.
 His best pal Gavin Friday revealed in a book about the band that Bono was
devastated by her death.
 Last November Bono hosted a lavish surprise celebration for his father's
birthday at the U2-owned hotel in
 Dublin, The Clarence.
 It was transformed into a glitzy party venue for the karaoke event.
 But before they even got to the hotel, Bob was amazed to see posters of
himself on lamp-posts and
 crash barriers along the quays of the Liffey.
 Bono, whose real name is Paul, and Norman's families turned up to celebrate
and Bob was thrilled to
 spend time with his grandchildren.
 Entertainment for the night included the karaoke machine as well as two
exotic belly dancers.
 Bono's bandmate Adam Clayton attended the festivities as guests sang along
to hits by Abba and Steps.
 Bob Hewson, a former post office worker, moved his family from their
original home in the Dublin suburb
 of Stillor-gan to Ballymun on the northside when Bono was just a toddler.
 They travelled across the Liffey to be nearer Iris's two sisters.
 Norman has admitted their mother's death was a huge blow to the family.
 He said: "We went through a particularly difficult time when our mother
died.
 "There was just dad and us two boys - I was 21 and he was 14.
 "Trying to maintain decent standards in the house was very hard."
 But the three pulled together and have remained close ever since.
 Bono wrote one of the songs on U2's Pop album for his father.
 He said: "There's another song called Tough, which I wrote for my dad - a
kind of
 you-don't-have-to-be-tough-all-the-time song."
 Last May Bono and Ali named their fourth child after Bob. (sic)
 © The Mirror, 2001.
Mi auguro veramente come prima cosa che si rimetta suo padre , ne ha
veramente bisogno anche bono ; come puo' continuare un tour in queste
condizioni? Psicologicamente deve essere a pezzi!!!
keith

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