Fortunately, he can also be the right kind of annoying when, say, persistence and a silver tongue are needed to get big guns on side.įor the many encounters with musical greats here – he passes out on Frank Sinatra’s white sofa, worried he’s lost bladder control – the most gripping passages come where the stubborn, religious punk from Dublin unsheathes what must, admittedly, be a very silver tongue when it counts. Headed by British economist Ann Pettifor, this coalition of groups and celebrities of conscience – the Dalai Lama, Muhammad Ali – persuaded the US et al to cancel billions of dollars of debt from developing countries.īono knows he can be annoying. But armed with dossiers of stats, Hewson had a frontline role in the Jubilee 2000 anti-poverty movement. (Bassist Adam Clayton is more agnostic.)Īs annoyed as many were back when U2 unexpectedly gave every iTunes owner a copy of their Songs of Innocence album in 2014 (he’s really sorry about that), Hewson clearly remains a pop star like no other, even if Chris Martin of Coldplay shares a tendril of his modus operandi. If McGuinness was U2’s fifth member, then the “immortal invisible” is the sixth. ![]() Photograph: Paul SlatteryĮven before U2’s debut album, 1980’s Boy, there is a great deal to contend with, not least the loss of a close friend to the Troubles, finding their astute (now ex-) manager, Paul McGuinness, and some serious quandaries about whether rock’n’roll could be God’s work. ![]() ‘More than a tale of epic Celtic rock’n’roll’: U2 (l-r: Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr, the Edge and Bono) in 1979.
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