"I always wondered who would show up to hear a lecture about my favorite rock and roll band," Nathan Tiemeyer told the people gathered to hear him speak at a Borders Bookstore in St. Louis. "Now I've finally got my answer."
The crowd (Tiemeyer later estimated there were fifty to seventy in attendance) was at the bookstore on a mid-July evening to hear the Covenant Theological Seminary student expound on the topic "When I Look at the World: Reality and Longing in the Music of U2." It was, he confessed early in the talk, the fulfillment of a long-standing dream. Years ago, Tiemeyer and some other U2 fan friends had considered creating their own lecture series on the topic they all felt was their area of expertise. "We even decided to give it that university feel by christening it 'The Prestigious Hewson Lectures,'" he told his audience that night, "which was an in-house nod to Bono's real name and a more than slightly ridiculous attempt to be clever."
Read the rest at atu2.com.
Posted by eshtine at September 9, 2002 06:42 PM