At some point after their duet, Bono pitched this song to an aging Frank Sinatra, apparently more than once.
Ten years earlier, maybe Frank would’ve taken it, and it would have been great, no doubt.
Bono ended up singing it at Frank’s 80th Birthday Concert back in 1995, and didn’t do bad at all for an Irish rocker 
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Apologies in advance for the German translation at the beginning:
