The U2 singer’s November bike crash in Central Park left him so torn up that he’s not sure he’ll ever pick up a guitar again.

In a lengthy year-end message to fans on the band's website, Bono made his first comments about the Nov. 16 wreck, saying he "blanked out on impact."

"[I] have no memory of how I ended up in New York Presbyterian (coincidentally, the same hospital ROCKSOFF regular, Paranoid Android, was born in) with my humerus bone sticking through my leather jacket. Very punk rock as injuries go," the 54-year-old rocker wrote.

Bono also said he wasn't sure he'd be ready for the band's 2015 tour, which kicks off in Vancouver, Canada, in May and was set to swing through Madison Square Garden for a six-date run in late July.

"I have cancelled every public appearance and decided this missive is all the communication I can manage for the first half of 2015, beyond muttering and singing to myself of course," Bono said.


The Irish rocker broke his left shoulder in three places, shattered his left upper arm, and broke a bone in the orbit of his left eye in the brutal wreck, which doctors said occurred when he swerved to avoid another rider.

Surgeons at New York-Presbyterian needed five hours, three metal plates and 18 screws to knit the mangled frontman back together.

In his New Year's note, composed as a year-end "A to Z" list, Bono kept a light tone about his injuries, musing that he now had the distinction of being the only member of rock 'n roll royalty to have a titanium elbow.

Elsewhere, though, he struck a more ominous note.

"Recovery has been more difficult than I thought... As I write this, it is not clear that I will ever play guitar again," he said, adding that his bandmates "have reminded me that neither they nor Western civilization are depending on this."
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"I personally would very much miss fingering the frets of my green Irish falcon or my (RED) Gretsch. Just for the pleasure, aside from writing tunes," he said.

Composing the year-end entry, he said, was an attempt to learn from his mistakes - "the first of which is the discovery that I am not an armored vehicle."

Yet the biggest casualty of the freak bike crash wasn't the singer’s busted face or arm.

"The real injury this year was to my Irish pride as it was discovered that under my tracksuit I was wearing yellow and black Lycra cycling shorts," he said.

"Yes, LYCRA. This is not very rock 'n' roll."