Bono – “Eden (To Find Love)”

Bono – “Eden (To Find Love)”

Someone made a whole laudatory documentary about Sean Penn’s Haitian earthquake-relief efforts, and someone got Bono to sing the end-credits song to that documentary. That sentence looks like some sort of satirical statement about self-aggrandizing entertainment-industry blowhards, but no! It’s real!

Linda Perry, the former 4 Non Blonde who became a big-deal pop songwriter, has done the score for Citizen Penn, a new documentary about Sean Penn doing humanitarian stuff. Perry and Bono co-wrote “Eden (To Find Love),” the song that plays over the end credits. It sounds exactly the way you would think a Bono/Linda Perry song from a Sean Penn earthquake-relief documentary would sound. If you would like to confirm your suspicions, you can hear the song below.

Talking to Rolling Stone about that Sean Penn documentary, Bono says:

This is an extraordinary document of an extraordinary man’s work, putting not just his brain but his body in the way of various injustices. For all the gravitas, the dude still cracks me up! In this song, I play God, and Sean plays Adam, having explained that it was me not Eve who got us thrown out of the Eden… or something like that. Linda helped me strip this all right back, and I even got our daughter Jordan on backing vocals. It’s a family affair.

Perry’s Citizen Penn soundtrack is out 5/21 on Lakeshore Records. Citizen Penn is currently streaming on Discovery+.

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