"U2" Live: A Concert Documentary - Softcover

Parra, Pimm Jal De La

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711991987 ISBN 13: 9780711991989

Publisher: Omnibus Press, 2003

Synopsis

Now updated to include their PopMart and Elevation tours, this title takes you along to every single U2 live performance. From their earliest shows in Dublin to the heartwarming spectacle of their 2001 Elevation tour. The book includes information, anecdotes and facts from virtually every U2 show, from 1976 to 2003, including spontaneous shows with local bands, impromptu seesions with fans and friends and acoustic jams during radio and TV sessions. Containing dates, venues, set lists, radio and TV broadcasts, quotes from the stage and details of unreleased material and dozens of cover versions performed by U2, this book offers a commentary which traces the band's musical development over 25 years. The book offers over 500 photographs, most previously unseen, which allow the reader to follow the band's evolution from Dublin teenagers to global megastars as well as concert tickets, ads and memorabilia collected by fans throughout the world.

About this title

Review:

The ultimate guide to the U2 live experience.' Q MAGAZINE

About the Author:

Original author Pimm Jal de la Parra was the editor and publisher of the highly acclaimed U2 fanzine Collectormania between 1987-1996. He spent three years researching to produce the ultimate U2 book. Sadly Pimm died in 2002. The current update of U2 Live was written by Collectormania's associate editor Caroline van Oosten de Boer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0711991987
• ISBN 13: 9780711991989
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320