I was over in Seattle all of last week and didn’t get any work done on the book. Answer Guy is now here visiting at Casa McGee, but he called it a night early and I’ve been writing like a maniac.
Somehow I got stuck tonight on early December, 2002 — the Heart of America Tour [...]
This Vanity Fair article by Lisa Robinson says that poet Allen Ginsberg was in attendance when U2 announced the PopMart Tour at the K-Mart in New York City.
Why have I never heard that before? He died about two months later, as I understand.
Any chance someone can confirm that?
I like when little things come together perfectly. Here’s an example of what just happened, and how it helped fill a small hole in the book:
1.) I’m reading this article to get some background about U2’s deal with ESPN for those World Cup soccer/football commercials last year. The article mentions that Bono and Paul McGuinness [...]
You probably know about the “naked interview” that all four band members did with Irish DJ Dave Fanning in 1987. Then in 1992 there was another interview — just Bono this time — in which Bono reportedly stripped naked during the interview. This supposedly happened at Nikitas Restaurant in London during the 3rd week of [...]
We all know that U2 spent about a week in the Hershey, PA, area doing rehearsals for the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast Tour in August, 1992. That much is common knowledge.
But up until last night, for that 7-day period, U2 Diary only had two entries: One for August 1st, the day the band arrived; [...]
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