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Music: U2 interview / GVs of 'Sphere' concert rig; Part 4 of 11 USA: Nevada: Las Vegas: INT Bono (U2 singer) interview excerpt SOT - Sinatra was extraordinary because he was a great interpretive singer / he chose songs to tell stories about his own life that he wasn't writing, including 'Mack the Knife' and whatever dark or bright side he wanted to show of himself to the world / to meet with him here was a kind of a moment / there is something about Las Vegas that we're very attracted to / at the very heart of who we are as a band is the concept of love versus luck really, if you think about it / I know that the world is full of unlucky situations, but I don't call them unlucky, I think we've got to build a society where people don't have to live off luck / I think that love can still overpower the most cynical systems / luck is to me a cynical system, but I do go gambling once a year, I'm famous for it, because we give all our friends 100 Euro in a sealed envelope The Edge (U2 guitarist) responding SOT - That's all you're allowed, that's it per person, that's the limit Bono responding SOT - Once a year / my wife's mother had never been gambling, she was eighty-six, she went to this casino and had 100 Euro, and was going to put it on the year of her birth / it came up on the roulette wheel '33', and I said 'I'm sorry Joy, I've blown it, I didn't get your number' / she said 'I put it on the next one' / I said 'you don't understand, it's just happened', she said 'no I do understand, and the same averages apply, can you put it on' / boom - love overpowered luck right there / luck is a way of seeing the world and you can have fun with it, we're having fun with it, I also delight in Las Vegas, we delight in Las Vegas for some of the more childish sides it offers up in the way of architecture / there's a great architectural manual called 'Learning from Las Vegas' / two great architects, they were talking about how architecture in the late 20th century was...