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“Arguably the greatest rock band on the planet, U2 now offers the definitive version of how it got there.” (USA Today )
“Fascinating details.” (Entertainment Weekly )
“...a definitive retrospective based on more than 150 hours of interviews.” (Rolling Stone )
“The book is sure to satisfy even the truly dedicated.” (Vanity Fair )
“...U2 BY U2 sure feels a lot like gospel.” (Chicago Sun-Times )
“Recommended for all popular music collections.” (Library Journal )
“Fascinating details.” (Entertainment Weekly )
“...a definitive retrospective based on more than 150 hours of interviews.” (Rolling Stone )
“The book is sure to satisfy even the truly dedicated.” (Vanity Fair )
“...U2 BY U2 sure feels a lot like gospel.” (Chicago Sun-Times )
“Recommended for all popular music collections.” (Library Journal )
Book Description
"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." -- Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures. It is the only authorised, fully comprehensive guide to the biggest band in the world. "We are trying to pin down something elusive, something that represents where we are, emotionally, physically, spiritually, but is also fresh and exciting. If it is not absolutely the best it can be, then why bother?" -- Adam Clayton. In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to be the singer. Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jnr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. "We wore it as a stubborn badge of pride that we weren't prepared to fall into line with every other group and take the fashionable stance of the day. We were uncool because we were hot, we just erupted as a live band." -- The Edge. Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, 'U2 By U2' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times. Bad haircuts, worse hangovers, prayer meetings and wild parties, encounters with presidents and popes, intimate accounts of the creation of all their classic songs, it is all here in a beautifully-presented book overseen by the band with the same passion for substance, style and immaculate attention to detail familiar from their musical career. "I have read a lot of rubbish about U2. Whenever I see us described in some mythic sense as masters of our own destiny, it makes me laugh. Being in U2 is more like riding a runaway train. We are just ordinary guys, hanging on to this thing for our lives." -- Larry Mullen Jnr.
--This text refers to the
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Up Close and Personal Book of U2,
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I grew up to these guys and still play them every other day if not every day. I first acquired this book thinking it would be a good piece of memorabillia but as I started reading it I realized that I was getting the inside story about all of these amazing men from the beginning of their band to the present. What a remarkably well written account and how fortunate that a U2 fan is given such wonderful insight from the horses mouth. I laughed out loud many times at the cheekiness of a few of these guys, to the point where my husband was like "what is so funny" of course its mostly "Bono" and his great sense of description. If you like this band, you should buy this book and cherish it.
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Had the original U2 by U2 book. The one that is HUGE and weighs like 30 pounds!!! Now I can actually READ the book! YAY!!
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These guys rock. They'll be around forever. I also recommend another book I just finished called the System by Roy Valentine. Excellent book.
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