U2’s Bono Jams With Dissident Russian Rocker, Hails Gorbachev

As U2 wrapped up their first concert in Moscow last night, lead singer Bono surprised about 55,000 fans in the audience by calling Russian rocker Yury Shevchuk, a critic of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on stage.

“You might know this man,” Bono said to the crowd. The pair performed Bob Dylan’s classic “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” with Shevchuk, frontman for the Russian rock group DDT, singing a Russian version before joining Bono on the original tune. Shevchuk left the stage shouting “Russia.”