{"id":2596,"date":"2008-08-16T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2008-08-16T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T15:48:15","slug":"bono-leaks-his-own-tracks-accidentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/08\/16\/bono-leaks-his-own-tracks-accidentally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono leaks his own tracks accidentally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a story in the British tab The Sun is to be believed, U2 singer Bono (aka Paul Hewson) is responsible for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/showbiz\/bizarre\/article1560603.ece\">leaking new tracks<\/a> from the band&#8217;s upcoming album &#8212; by playing the new songs so loudly at his French villa that someone walking by heard them and recorded them. The Sun being the kind of newspaper it is, it&#8217;s difficult to tell whether this report is 100 per cent true or not. There are no links to any actual files, and no quotes from this alleged passer-by, nor are there any details about what he or she recorded the music with (a cellphone?). And as <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/new-u2-album-tracks-leaked-after-bono-plays-stereo-too-loudly-080816\/\">TorrentFreak notes<\/a>, the sound quality of the files is likely terrible. But if true it&#8217;s more than a little ironic, given <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/music\/article3265717.ece\">how vocal<\/a> U2&#8217;s manager Paul McGuiness has been about copyright violations and the like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a story in the British tab The Sun is to be believed, U2 singer Bono (aka Paul Hewson) is responsible for leaking new tracks from the band&#8217;s upcoming album &#8212; by playing the new songs so loudly at his French villa that someone walking by heard them and recorded them. The Sun being the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/08\/16\/bono-leaks-his-own-tracks-accidentally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bono leaks his own tracks accidentally&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}