Bono Surgery: U2 Frontman Suffers Bicycle Accident In Central Park
U2 frontman, Bono will reportedly need surgery following a freak bike accident in Central Park over the weekend. The Irish musician is apparently going through a bout of bad luck, which included a scare in the air a few days ago.
The official announcement came via U2’s website, in which guitarist (the) Edge, bassist Adam (Clayton), and drummer Larry (Mullen Jr.) explain why the band will have to cancel their appearance with Jimmy Fallon.
“It looks like we will have to do our ‘Tonight Show’ residency another time – we’re one man down. Bono has injured his arm in a cycling spill in Central Park and requires some surgery to repair it. We’re sure he’ll make a full recovery soon, so we’ll be back! Much thanks to Jimmy Fallon and everyone at the show for their understanding.”
Not only will Bono and U2 cancel their visit to the Tonight Show — which was set over all of this week, beginning on Monday — but it was also announced that several other appearances were scratched while the singer recovers from his ordeal.
It is unclear how Bono injured his arm, but there are some reports indicating the 54-year-old rocker fell off his bike (not something you want to publicize much).
According to Yahoo! News, an NBC spokesperson confirmed that U2, which had been booked to appear on the Tonight Show every day this week, had pulled out due to the accident. This was not the only mishap suffered by Bono in recent days.
Four days ago — as reported by the Inquisitr — a private plane carrying Bono suffered a mid-air incident, when a rear door fell off the Learjet 60. Luckily, nobody was injured, and only a few items were lost somewhere over Germany.
“The Learjet lost a door where the luggage was put in,” an official with the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation told ABC News.
Germout Freitag explained that the cause for the malfunctioning door is not known at this time.
“There can be many reasons for this incident. Either something broke on the door or the door wasn’t closed properly. Those are the usual problems that occur.”
The plane carrying U2’s lead singer, Bono, took off from his native Dublin, en route to Berlin, and landed safely with no injuries reported. Freitag says that it could take up to a year to complete an investigation into the cause of the incident.
“What happened here is very unusual, but they were never really at risk,” said aviation expert and ABC News consultant John Nance of Bono’s mid-air scare. “The passengers may have been scared when they heard a noise, but they never lost pressurization.”
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