OK, so I've done with this dire piece of crap. Unless you see it in a remainder bin for $3.00 (which is where it will be soon), don't buy it.
Some more howlers:
-The video for "With or Without You" was filmed on the roof of a store in downtown Los Angeles. (It sure was awfully dark up there.)
-Sinead O'Connor not only sang a song for "In the Name of the Father", but she also starred in the film opposite Daniel Day Lewis.
-At the funeral for Paula Yates, Bono sang "Bullet the Blue Sky"
Can you imagine anyone who has actually listened to that song believing that was appropriate to a funeral? (It was "Blue Skies", actually.) I literally laughed out loud picturing it. Try it yourself....See what I mean?
-"Achtung Baby" was the "title track" for the album of the same name, but a "sinisterly Germanic parody" of that song was "mysteriously included" on Zooropa. (So mysterious no one else knows about it!)
-The songs "Stay" and "The First Time" are described as "straightforward high-energy rock". (Yeah, I really love dancing to those two hard-hitting numbers.)
I could go on and on (really, I could), but you get the idea.
Aside from the above-mentioned insights, this book tells you nothing you didn't already know. I'm not actually sure how this writer can get away with this, actually, as he's used a huge number of quotes from many sources which we are familiar with, but he credits NONE of them, and lists no acknowledgements, not one. With all of these direct quotes from Bono and others, he gives the wilfully misleading impression that he actually had access to all of these people. Appalling.