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Killing Bono
"The best book I have ever read about trying to make it in the music business" - Elton John
"A fantastic book, which manages the difficult trick of being simultaneously very funny and very sad." - Bob Geldof
"I was Neil McCormick's fan in school. He was much cooler than me, a much better writer and I thought he'd make a much better rock star. I was wrong on one count. He's written a great book" - Bono
U2 in Barcelona: “Hewson, we have a problem”
U2 at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona
U2’s latest tour launched this week at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona and came out with a typically ambitious production. Set up in the round in the centre of the stadium, an enormous lighting, sound and visual display rig towered on four giant legs vertically over the stage like an alien space ship. The sci-fi theme was taken to extremes when Bono spoke live by satellite link up to the real International Space Station orbiting earth (actually one of the longeurs of the show, since the crew did little more than wave to their moms and utter platitudes about global unity).
The show did not all go according to plan, with plenty of first night teething problems, to the extent that U2 completely messed up their biggest song, ‘One’ and had to restart it twice. When Bono (aka Paul Hewson) missed his cue for ‘With Or Without You’ and started punching his microphone in frustration, I imagined the astronauts watching from above utter the immortal line “Hewson, we have a problem.”
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