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The film makes your anger now visible. One scene shows begin to feel like you left with a concert of your three colleagues in the lurch and scream.
The Edge: What you see in the film is totally harmless.
Really? What does it because of a genuine outburst of Bono?
The Edge: It can be very loud. So that we must leave the room. Ten minutes later he apologized.
Bono: I had such attacks for years and more.
The Edge: That's correct. We are getting older and softer.
When you have both beaten the last time?
Bono: long ago.
Who won?
Bono: I'm just saying: Lie down with guitarist ever. They have a perfect hand-eye coordination. His right hand is really hard. Believe me, I have made acquaintance with many rights.
Pity that such scenes are not to be seen in your film.
Bono: We have left our Davis archive material from the late eighties and early nineties, including many things that we had never seen myself. No idea what there are hidden treasures for.
The Edge: We have to keep some secrets, we are finally no peep show.
When the crisis began by U2?
The Edge: When we had the mid-eighties huge success in America with our Joshua Tree tour. The organizers forced us into the halls of the largest stadiums to move. This has overwhelmed us. We had no technique, no team, no experience. We were four guys from Dublin, a club band that suddenly appeared in front of 80 000 people every night. We felt like it tore us.
Why did you not played in clubs?
The Edge: Because the demand was so great that tickets for concerts in smaller halls on the black market already cost several thousand dollars.
Bono: Suddenly we were superstars in America. The worst thing that could happen to a Maoist in the British music scene.
What has the British music scene with the Maoist China to do?
Ideologies that played a big role. Mao had forbidden color, birds, flowers, music. The British music scene knew a ban: go to America. And then there was Prince. On a purple Honda. Boom! As the music-Maoists were helpless, because Prince was American on a cool way.
The Edge: We have solved all ideologies. What advantages and disadvantages. On Rattle and Hum, we have tried to make our own blues and folk. We have committed no crime, but it was a little tasteless. This album, we would rather not have published.
Bono: The fans were annoyed with us, and we were annoyed each other. We were buddies since childhood, had to say to us but nothing more.
From zero to ten: What was then the probability that U2 would be separate?
Bono: Nine.
The Edge: We could not be separated but with a bang, but slowly we lost sight of.
Bono: We were at a loss, we could think of nothing. The Edge split from his wife, who was part of our band family. He sat silently in the corner and daddelte on the guitar. It was clear that we need a change of scenery.
Why Berlin?
Why not? The city was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the capital of the change.
How did you solve your conflicts there? Alcohol? Boxing? Group therapy?
Bono: The music that saved us. We wanted to make an album that sounds electronically and by Einstürzende Neubauten. Then the music came to us, I must say so esoteric, and has redeemed us. When we had taken one, we knew that it would go with U2.
The Edge: The other two, Larry and Adam, sometimes complain that they can not get enough recognition for Achtung Baby.
Bono: You have crabbed that time, our songs were not good enough.
The Edge: The guys were wrong.
U2 live and work together since 1976. Would you get married, when marriage was permitted between four men in Ireland?
The Edge: Our relationship has nothing of a marriage, we meet only in the studio or on stage.
Good record, but take your tours up to three years, and a plate also needs at least six months.
Bono: We have a normal male problem: The older men, the less space they leave the arguments of other men. Especially when all these men believe to have achieved something.
The Edge: It is here, but not create the impression that we constantly beat us or pull her hair. We had some dispute, but if done wisely, you learn from every conflict. Today, with U2 saying every every everything. Bono, The Edge what annoys you?
Bono: His perfectionism.
The Edge: I'm trying to be perfect, but I can not quite yet.
The Edge, Bono, you should probably pissing off close to guys like George W. Bush.
The Edge: He knows not well received. It does not mean that the band is suffering under Bono's humanitarian work. Anyone can do what he wants, as long as he performs at the thing is, if we work.
Bono: Bush and I were never friends. We needed his help in our work for debt relief in Africa - and he helped us.
But as the Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen once with its celebration evening band in the studio stopped by, the band was pissed.
The Edge: True, if Bono invites his celebrity friends to the samples, we can not amused.
Go off and have a drink together?
The Edge: We have come together in a villa in southern France. As we drink the odd bottle of red wine.
What mistake you will not make again?
The Edge: We succeed only when we take risks. Just to be sure is killing us.
Bono: Today we are a better band than before - therein lies a danger. There is a huge difference between very good and brilliant. Right now we tend to be very good. We used to be garbage. Or we were brilliant. Very well, we were rare. What did it matter that we have done things that we did not understand.
They want to take more risks?
Bono: U2 have been fighting for twenty years against the irrelevance. We have cowered before her, slapped her face, she put one leg. Nevertheless, we are now on the verge of becoming irrelevant. We could fill every day somewhere in the world a stadium. But we still falls a music that the people really means something?
The history of this famous band started with a piece of paper and Larry Mullen Jr. in 1976 on the bulletin board of his school are put up in Dublin. Among the boys who volunteered, were Bono (real name Paul Hewson), guitarist The Edge (real name David Evans) and bassist Adam Clayton. Meanwhile, U2 have sold 150 million records and thrilled with their wide-screen rock millions of concert goers. Its gone 360 ° Tour, coming to an end, broke all records, their last album "No Line On The Horizon" (2009) was commercially but fell short of expectations.
But Bono, you!! 
Sorry......it would have to be the drummer..........
