![]() ![]() The result is brutally honest, intensely personal, shockingly messy and incredibly wonderful. McCormack then turned the 150+ hours of audio into the story in this book. The four members of U2 separately gave Neil McCormack recorded interviews about their lives and the history of the band. Documented herein are enough bad hair, bad skin, bad clothes and other bad ideas to destroy the careers of countless lesser bands.īut it is the text of “U2 by U2” that makes this book vital. Frequently these images are not flattering. Nearly all of the photos are from the band’s personal archives and were not previously published. This is not something you’d want to read on a crowded train or at a busy airport. Like so many of their songs, the tales U2 tell are best encountered in the solitude of one’s personal domain. A band this big couldn’t fit into a conventional sized book anyway. The over-sized format filled with countless images was the perfect setting for this candid story. And, besides, I didn’t own a “coffee table.”īut once again U2 demonstrated their genius. ![]() I was disappointed to learn that Ireland’s heroic U2 would publish their ‘auto biography’ as a ‘coffee table book.’ I believed U2’s story deserved a heavy (500+ page) sober (no photos) presentation reflecting an intellectual seriousness. ![]()
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