Bono Treated for Heart Scare

Bono performing on U2's 360 tour.

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Bono was treated for heart palpitations and chest pains at a hospital in Monaco on Wednesday and Thursday. The U2 frontman, who was on holiday in the south of France, spent some time at the Princess Grace Memorial Hospital, but was not kept overnight. The singer was examined by a top heart specialist and told to get some rest. Only one night later, he was seen relaxing at one of Moraco's most exclusive nightclubs.

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Bono's heart scare comes only three weeks after U2 completed their massive 360 Tour, which occupied much of the group's time over the past two years. The band was forced to postpone several gigs last summer when Bono had to undergo emergency back surgery after injuring himself while training for the tour.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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