Thanks so much for finding that. On your question - I’d be glad to.

@u2search - thanks for the link, as well.

I was pretty sure I had the quote somewhere so have spent days trawling my U2 mags and have now found it!

I have the “Uncut - Legends presents U2, volume 1 issue 3″ published in May 2004 - similar to the NME ’special’ published around the same time.

The quote is on page 88 of the mag in an article about the making of The Joshua Tree. The 5th paragraph reads… ‘But the album’s lengthy gestation, Bono later admiied, began to strain his already volatile marriage. “I live with a very strong person, and she throws me out occasionally,” he confessed to ‘Rolling Stone’. “I hardly saw my wife Ali for a year. 1986 was an incredibly bad year for me. It’s almost impossible to be married and be in a band on the road.”

Later on in the same article, after referring to Bono’s trip to Nicaragua and El Salvador… ‘In early July, tragedy hit U2 a lot closer to home. Greg Carroll, Bono’s 26-year-old personal assistant and stage roadie, collided with a car on Dublin’s Morehampton Road while riding the singer’s Harley Davidson home. He died in hospital soon afterwards. The band were frozen with grief, devastated. Bono, Ali, Larry and various U2 family members flew out for Carroll’s traditional Maori funeral, a three-day affair in Wanganui, New Zealand.

“He was one of those guys you say is too good for this world,” said Bono. “And he died doing me a favour. I don’t know what to say. He further made 1986 the most paradoxical year of our lives. That’s why the desert attracted me as an image. That year was really a desert for us. It was a terrible time. Death is a real cold shower… it’s followed me around since I was a kid and I don’t want to see any more of it.”

Matt - I hope this is waht you were looking for? If you want me to e-mail you a scan of the page from the mag I can do so although I’m not sure whether you’d be able to read the size of the text. Let me know.

P.S. Like Coca, I’d love a signed copy of your book when it’s published if possible please as I’ve helped out a few times! If you want me to send you the book after I’ve bought it and pay for the return postage I’d be more than happy to do that.

Cheers,

Richard

Q: Has that line about “midlife crisis” in the song “New York” dogged you?

Bono: «It followed me around, but everyone who knows me knows that I had a midlife crisis when I was about 27. (…)»

http://u2_interviews.tripod.com/id99.html

I found this last year a time of reassessment in my own life. I think Dylan said: “When you reach the top, you’re at the bottom.”

http://u2-atomic-articles.tripod.com/id30.html