Description
U2: the most popular-and the most significant-rock group in the world today. Until now, they were a band shrouded in mystery. For the first time ever, here is a painstakingly detailed and honest account of who they are-and where they're going. The result of eighteen months' exclusive and unlimited access to the band and illustrated with dozens of exclusive photographs, UNFORGETTABLE FIRE gives you all the magic of the group, from their humble origins to their breakthrough performance at Live Aid to The Joshua Tree, their best- selling album to date.
Inspiring and illuminating, UNFORGETTABLE FIRE begins in Ireland. Here U2 started out as the original band from nowhere, struggling for its place on the provincial, volatile Dublin city scene. Its members had no concept of musical tradition nor any real sense of social identity. Yet in a short but tumultuous decade, they achieved that identity, and much more. From Ireland to England to America, singing of life in a stark suburban world intensely real to its youthful in- habitants all over the globe, they now play to sold-out stadium crowds, performing music that is political, spiritual, and personal, not to mention great rock 'n' roll.
ISBN:9780446514590
