[0-446-51459-4] 1988. (Hardcover) Very good in near fine dust jacket. 320pp. Photographs, appendices, index. "U2: the most popular - the most significant - rock group in the world today. Until now, they were a band shrouded in mystery. For the first time ever, here is a painstakingly detailed and honest account of who they are - and where they're going". Biography of U2--Band. Includes Bono, Adam Clayton, Edge & Larry Mullins. (Music, Music, Musicians, Rock and Roll).

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

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Warner Books, New York

ISBN 10

0446514594

ISBN 13

9780446514590

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Hardcover

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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.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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