Editing Chaz Bono (section)

==Ceremony==
Bono began a short music career in 1988 with the band Ceremony,<ref name = "AFTERELLEN"/> which released one album, ''Hang Out Your Poetry'', in 1993. The band featured Bono on vocals, acoustic guitar, and percussion. Other members were [[Steve March Tormé]] (backup vocals), Heidi Shink a.k.a. Chance, [[Pete McRae]], Steve Bauman, Louis Ruiz, and Bryn Mathieu. All but one of the band's songs were written or co-written by Bono, Shink, and [[Mark Hudson (musician)|Mark Hudson]]. They used no synthesizers or digital effects on the album; Shink noted, "We turned our back on technology. [ ... ] It's reminiscent of the 60s, but more a tip of the hat than emulating it. We took the music we love and rejuvenated it, made it 90s."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psnw.com/~randyk/122293.htm |title=Reviews of Ceremony {{!}} Hang Out Your Poetry, The Dead Milkmen {{!}} Not Richard, But Dick, and Al Stewart concert |last= Krbechek |first=Randy |website=PSNW |date=December 22, 1993 |access-date=March 12, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616114924/http://www.psnw.com/~randyk/122293.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2009 }}</ref> Critical reception of the album was lukewarm, with Roch Parisien of Allmusic describing ''Hang Out Your Poetry'' as a mildly psychedelic take on early 1990s pop, "pleasant, accessible, well-produced ear-candy that's ultimately toothless".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/hang-out-your-poetry-mw0000100698|title=Hang Out Your Poetry|author=Roch Parisien|work=AllMusic|access-date=April 27, 2015|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016065127/http://www.allmusic.com/album/hang-out-your-poetry-mw0000100698|url-status=live}}</ref>

The songs "Could've Been Love" and "Ready for Love" were released as singles from the album. Sonny and Cher also recorded backing vocals for the track "Livin' It Up" on the album.
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