Unforgettable Fire: Past, Present, and Future - the Definitive Biography of U2 - Softcover

Dunphy, Eamon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446389749 ISBN 13: 9780446389747

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 1988

Synopsis

U2 has always been a band shrouded in mystery. Now, for the first time ever, comes a painstakingly detailed and honest account of the remarkable band from Ireland whose political, spiritual and personal music has touched the hearts and minds of its countless fans.

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From Publishers Weekly

Hailed as the "Band of the '80s" by Rolling Stone magazine, U2 is known for sinewy music and haunting lyrics. By contrast, this biography by Irish writer Dunphy, written with the band's cooperation, is bloated and boring. Filling some 300 pages, Dunphy offers overly detailed sketches of the band members (Paul "Bono" Hewsom "was a cranky baby"), a drawn-out account of how the budding rock musicians met, dime-store psychoanalysis and many obscenities. In the second half of the book, Dunphy presents instructive comments on U2's music (for example, the album Unforgettable Fire was inspired by drawings by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings), but, overall, he focuses too much on the band members and not enough on their musical message. And one questions his claim that U2 did not censor any materialthere's scarcely a critical word in the book. Photos.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446389749
• ISBN 13: 9780446389747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 363