However, in Russia, where homophobic attitudes have been common over the last couple of years, Starovoitov’s interpretation of the cover image doesn’t come as a surprise. embracing his 18-year-old son, Elvis, while both are shirtless.īack in September 2014, U2 explained on its web site that the image was supposed to show “in the visual language, how ‘holding on to your own innocence is a lot harder than holding on to someone else’s.'” Starovoitov apparently referred to the album’s cover photo featuring the band’s drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 Fans Get Tool EP Instead of ‘Songs of Innocence’ on Vinyl “In 2014, tracks by U2 were uploaded in a viral way to my Music folder in iTunes, with the album cover featuring what I believe to be two men engaged in a manifestation of non-traditional sexual relations.”
“Just like many citizens of the Russian Federation, I am an iPhone owner,” Starovoitov said in the address to the Prosecutor’s Office, quoted by the Russian daily Izvestia. A Russian legislator has accused Apple and the band U2 of violating the Russian law “against gay propaganda among minors” by uploading U2’s latest album, Songs of Innocence, to iTunes customers worldwide, including Russia, in September 2014.Īlexander Starovoitov, a member of the Russian State Duma, the lower chamber of Parliament, asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate the incident and rule whether it came as a breach of the controversial legislation adopted two years ago and widely viewed as a crackdown on the Russian gay community in general.
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