Important People At A Ball

Important People At A Ball
If Bono’s working his shades at the event, you know it’s something important. That guy is SO gunning for a Nobel Prize. Here’s various and sundry celebs at the Black Ball, an event sponsored by Keep a Child Alive to honor Bono for furthering AIDS education in Africa. Alicia Keys was among the performers and apparently kicked ass with some new tracks. Only two performers were capable of matching Keys’ mettle. One was Metropolitan Opera singer Kathleen Battle, who joined Keys for a haunting rendition of the semi-obscure U2/Pavarotti collaboration “Miss Sarajevo.” The other was Bono himself, who strode onstage near the night’s end to duet with Keys on their 2005 collaboration “Don’t Give Up.” Leaning hard into his phrases, the U2 leader used volume and emphasis to drive the song upward. Do you think the other members of U2 are ever like, nice effort but he’s so INTO himself. Iman must have been making the other chicks gnash their teeth because she looks flawless. Sheryl Crow needs to stop borrowing outfits from Stevie Nicks, though. Carry a tambourine or something to get that out of your system. Photos: WENN See more photos (Billie Joe Armstrong, Petra Nemcova, Padma Lakshmi, Iman, David Bowie, Diddy, Jay-Z, L.A. Reid, Sheryl Crow, Gwen Stefani, Edward Burns, Christy Turlington, Gayle King) after the jump.