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Title: Unforgettable Fire: Past, Present, and Future - the Definitive Biography of U2
Publisher: Warner Books, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0446514594
ISBN 13: 9780446514590
Binding: Hard Back
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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An authorized biography of U2, one of the world's most popular rock bands, features information gathered over an eighteen-month period during which the author lived and traveled with the band members

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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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