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Saturday: for musicians like Bono and Bob Geldof, this day would be spent rocking out at sold-out venues, making chart-topping music, or getting their hands dirty helping solve the world’s problems.

And this past weekend was no different – Bono and Bob stepped foot in Toronto’s offices of The Globe and Mail, and made history as the first guest-editors for Canada’s national newspaper.

You can check out the full Bono and Bob-Globe experience in Jennifer MacMillan’s article “Bono and Geldof take the reins”, PLUS, check out the musical duo’s full edition of the paper, titled “The Africa Century”.

Click for more pics, plus links to behind the scenes photos, video, live chat.

On top of taking video questions from their fans, and getting people aware of their causes and helping conditions in Africa, they also took charge and were in charge of Monday’s edition of the news – putting together the pics, the facts, the headlines, the “don’t-miss-this-issue” stories that make the paper so popular.

To see behind the scenes photos, click HERE.

They used their rock talents and world knowledge to design the cover, the opinion pages (submitting international model Christy Turlington’s piece on mothers), the business section (focusing on climate and heat), and sports (covering the World Cup in Africa).

Too see behind the scenes video with with Bono and Bob, click HERE.

Their efforts created an all-Africa issue out that not just focused on the continent’s corruption, hunger and war, but on its potential in the coming decades, a few months before our country hosts multiple world leaders for the G8/G20 conferences in June.

To see a live chat with Bob Geldof, click HERE.

Tags: Africa, Bob Geldof, bono, The globe and Mail, u2

Posted: May 10th, 2010 | Category: Music
Tags: Africa, Bob Geldof, bono, The globe and Mail, u2