Bono has turned down the chance to receive an honorary degree during his daughter's graduation ceremony in New York next week.

Bono’s 21-year-old daughter Eve Hewson will receive her degree from New York University on May 22nd, and college chiefs offered her famous father a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on the same day.

However, he has decided against accepting the honor so he can concentrate on cheering on his daughter's achievements although he was very honored.

Joe Flannery, The Beatles’ booking agent during the band's early career, claims John Lennon confessed that he had gone overboard with his political statements.

Lennon was also planning to return to his hometown of Liverpool and wanted to sail into the city on board luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 as his fans lined the shore.

According to Britain's Daily Express, Flannery says he spoke to Lennon months before he was shot dead outside his New York apartment in 1980, and recalls, "We enjoyed a lengthy conversation." He said John mentioned, "We should start talking about me coming home, before Nixon gets me', he said. I was rather taken aback and asked him to explain. John launched into a diatribe against the former president. He was convinced that even out of office Nixon carried power and wanted him dead.

"He felt some kind of curse was hanging over him... His tone bothered me a little, expressing as it did what sounded like a touch of paranoia. 'It would be good to come home for a bit.'"

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