U2

In the lawsuit, McKillen, who reportedly co-owns a whiskey distillery with U2 frontman Bono, said he and his team “undertook a massive redevelopment effort” on the Beverly Hills hotel — where rooms go for more than $1,000 a night — over a two-year period, but were not paid millions of dollars allegedly owed for the work done.

Judges have already announced that U2 will be named Academy Fellows, the Ivors' highest honorary accolade.

Rob ignored me and blasted U2 at a volume he knew would make me nuts.

Matt Mead, who has published a book about the band, says: "The Stone Roses were the biggest band at that time. They were as big, if not bigger, than U2, who were massive."

In the 90s and early 2000s, Onishi noted, evangelicals hyped everyone from U2 and Creed to Jessica Simpson and Katy Perry as "crossover Christian figures" who could sell the larger world on the idea that Christianity is hip and cool.