Another Troy for Her to Burn

The emperor's new clothes/ fachtna's version/ sex and politics/ sinead o'connor scares the studio crew/ U2 as the justice league/ a moonlit journey over the halfpenny bridge

Rancho Mirage

Sinatra sets some records/ bono's journey to the desert/ a swinging summit meeting/ a hasty retreat and relaxed reconciliation/ mud in yer eye and scotch in yer crotch

Pressure Points

An understudy saves the big show/ an infestation of winged pests/ the sinking of the triplecast/ tiny tim as rorschach test/ larry's admonition against the aggrandizement of the lovey-dovey

To Confer, Converse, and Otherwise Hobnob

Macphisto's farewell address/ the veejay proposes date rape/ a frequent flyer causes panic in the aisles/ god blows on the soundman/ bono cuts off michael Jackson's penis

Skin Diving

bono swipes a boat/ adam's hidden gifts/ a conga line forms at the gay bar/ a wager over underpants/ acquiring a postsexual perspective/ bono swipes a waitress/ bond! beach party

World AIDS Day

Flight of the zoo crew/ bono's soul leaves his body/ wine tasting in new Zealand/ the english-irish problem rears its head/ a meditation on rock stardom/ ascending mt. cavendish in a creaky gondola

Adam Agonistes

Clayton at the crossroads/ a visit to the wonderbar/ bono does an art deal/ an aztec experience/ larry mullen: frugal or tightwad?/ sunrise over one tree hill

Penny-Wise

Sore feelings above the pacific ocean/ tensions in the inner circle/ when adam and paul used to hunt as a pair/ this is not a band like most bands/ adam smith vs. the workers in the vineyard

Tokyo Overload

Discovering japan/ kato's rebellion/ investigating the hostess trade/ larry encounters an ardent fan/ snake-handling is not an inherited skill/ sunrise like a nosebleed

Judo

U2 stops the traffic/ shootout in the noodle factory/ electric stained glass windows/ making the yakuza blink/ bono in the city of the dead/ hal willner goes disco

Bono at Bottom

Rejecting the brown rice position/ the future of the zoo tv network/ getting lost and missing sound check/ bono is left stripped and unconscious/ U2 plays a stinker/ god isn't dead, nietzsche is

Fin de Siecle

The bomb japan scandal/ U2's promoter banzais madonna's/ t-shirts save the day/ larry takes stock/ the 157th and final zoo tv concert/ the secret of the universe

Aftershocks

Burning promises on the beach/ into the earthquake zone/ inducting bob marley/ the corrioles effect/ the charge of the cap/to/ gang/ bono's promise to the young people

The City That Doesn't Sleep

The big bang of pop/ cutting off the capol more news from Sarajevo/ irishmen in new york/ adam sets a few things straight/ what's the word?

Scoring

Time returns to its normal shape/ going to the world cup/ an outpouring of gaelic emotion and beer/ edge passes up a chance to meet the girl of his dreams/ Italian restaurants and Irish bars

The Rest Is Easy

All God wants is a willing heart and for us to call out to Him

Index

 

U2

Author's Note

The ideas, opinions, descriptions, and conclusions in this book are all mine. Although U2 spent endless hours listening to my theories, answering my questions, and explaining their work and their workings, there are lots of things in here that some or all the members of U2 will disagree with. That's okay. I'll stand behind it all. I am as pigheaded as any of them.

Those aristocrats who fall on the floor writhing and swallowing their tongues when writers put rock & roll into the same boat as high art, poetry, philosophy, and other university subjects should get out now. You won't like it here. But if you want to understand U2, you have to understand how they draw from the highbrow stuff as well as the dumb things down in rock & roll's designated station.

And it might save a fistfight or two if I spell this out: when I talk about U2's relationship with Bill Clinton or Salman Rushdie or Wim Wenders or other cultural bigshots, it is not to suggest that U2 influenced those people; it is to show how those people influenced U2.

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