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Some Research Can’t be Believed

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Have a look at this article:
U2’s Unforgettable Fire (Part 1)
Specifically, scroll down to the April 12, 1985, entry.
I looked it up, and Christy Turlington would’ve been 16; Naomi Campbell would’ve been 14. There’s just no way. I’m gonna assume that’s a typo or some such thing.
Plus, in U2 by U2, Bono says the first [...]

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Your Expectations for U2 DIARY

Sunday, September 16th, 2007

I find it very easy to get lost in the details of this book. I can spend an hour or two hunting down some obscure date or fact before realizing … It’s okay if you don’t solve that mystery. It’s not that important.
I force myself to limit those wild goose chases by focusing on [...]

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Thank You, Brian Eno

Friday, September 14th, 2007

My account of 1995 just improved tenfold thanks to Brian Eno.
I’m in the midst of reading all the old Propaganda magazine articles that we have in the @U2 news archive, and I just got done with this:
Eno’s Dear Diary
It has a lot more detail on the phone calls and visit from Luciano Pavarotti, and how [...]

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Bono and His Spotty Memory

Friday, August 31st, 2007

There’s a really wonderful story in Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas that belongs in U2 Diary, too, but I don’t see any way to make that happen.
It’s near the end of the book, in the “Faith Versus Luck” chapter. It’s on ppg. 290-91 of the U.S. hardback edition, and ppg. 322-23 of the [...]

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Bono in Central America, 1986

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

I’m really trying to nail down some dates and information about Bono’s trip(s) to Central America in 1986.
Actually, the first thing I don’t know is whether he made one trip there or more. I always assumed he went to El Salvador and Nicaragua on the same trip. But in Michka Assayas’ book, Michka asks, [...]

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