U2 By U2 Scans

[girlwcrimsonnls]

Any good stories or pics about Adam/other guys childhood, did they go into much detail about this at all?

 

[last unicorn]

I finally got my book yesterday! I wanted to flip through it a bit in the evening, look at some photos and read some stuff, and I ended up reading til 3 in the morning, which was good and bad at the same time. I so love this book. There are many little things that I really enjoyed reading. Much stuff I didn't know. Some was quite funny, some very touching. And the pictures are great.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Do they mention any of their other children/family, and if they do could you please scan this? Thank you so much =)

Only Bono could talk about his own birth.




Edge's daughter Hollie


Bono's daughter Eve. Interesting story on how they got her name.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Edge's daughter Sian.


Bono's son Eli and Edge's son Levi.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Bono's son John and the band talk about Bono's father's ailing health and touring during that time.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Just wondering... are there any pictures of the band or various members with Gavin Friday in this book? Or any mention of him and their time growing up together? If there is, could a kind soul scan it for me? I won't be able to get the book for myself for a while yet.

Thanks! And loving all the scans so far. Some great stories in there!

There are some pics with Gavin; I'll try to find some later. For now here's how Bono and Larry met Gavin, and some talk about Lypton Village and Adam drinking coffee during German class.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Any good stories or pics about Adam/other guys childhood, did they go into much detail about this at all?

I'm sure there's tons of text about their childhoods; I'll try to post when I get more time to read through.

Click the thumbnail.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

The power of the Afro.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Pictures of Gavin Friday:

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Since Larry usually says so little, I couldn't figure out which passage to take from his opening remarks. So I scanned them all.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Okay I did the same for Adam.

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Just a few words from The Edge.

 

[2morrow]

The Edge's childhood stories are so and .

 

[Storm/Light]

Many thanks for the gorgeous Gavin-y goodness!

 

[Devlin]

Mad mag boy.
He STILL looks like that kid!

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

PB told me that I'm close to exceeding my bandwidth limit for the month. Hopefully y'all aren't hotlinking any of the photos I've posted. If you are, quit it !!!!!!!! PB says I have 38862 monthly hits, and I know I haven't done all that myself. So please don't make me go change all my links, k?

I'll have more text next week - I'd post it now but I don't want to risk losing everything I've done so far - I'm at 94% capacity right now with my bandwidth.

 

[Sue DeNym]

I got my copy! $21.69 at Costco. And it is such a good read so far.

at Edge claiming he looked like Alfred E. Neuman, while his best friend looked like Paul Newman! Poor Edge!

 

[U2isthebest]

I got my copy! $21.69 at Costco. And it is such a good read so far.

at Edge claiming he looked like Alfred E. Neuman, while his best friend looked like Paul Newman! Poor Edge!

LOL. His friend was so cute though! I also loved the quote on pg. 29 when they're talking abou the first band meeting, and Bono goes "I though Edge had the most extraordinary head-He looked like an Apache Indian." To anyone who has the book, go to pg. 13. I'm sorry, but Adam looked just like a thinner version of the boy from "A Christmas Story" when he was little. (Sorry Carmel. LOL)

 

[iriden]

I finally got it...and i can't find words to describe how amazing, beautiful and everything else this book is

 

[Merc]

I didn't get to read your latest scans LG (and thanks for your great work btw! ), but I was just wondering about something in connection to this...

Any good stories or pics about Adam/other guys childhood, did they go into much detail about this at all?

Does Adam tell anything about the time he was living in Kenya?

 

[girlwcrimsonnls]

I didn't get to read your latest scans LG (and thanks for your great work btw! ), but I was just wondering about something in connection to this...



Does Adam tell anything about the time he was living in Kenya?

Just that they had to leave when it became dangerous for white people there, then his parents had to decide to go to Dublin or Hong Kong.

 

[Adam'sbaby]

Could someone please post the pics of Gavin Friday again.

Thank you

 

[Lemon Grrrrrl]

Could someone please post the pics of Gavin Friday again.

Thank you

 

[Merc]

Just that they had to leave when it became dangerous for white people there, then his parents had to decide to go to Dublin or Hong Kong.

Did he say what year they moved? I'm guessing it must have been somewhere around the Independence...

(Sorry I'm a bit about this - just think it's fun cos I lived there for a short while myself)


Edit: Okay, found the excerpt from the book at the Harper Collins site:

When I was four years old, dad found work in Kenya flying for East African Airways. We were based in Nairobi: this was definitely the happiest period I can remember from my early life; the heat and the freedom. My parents would have been living relatively comfortably compared to before, with regular work, a decent-sized house, someone to clean and help, that sort of stuff. Mostly I remember the sunshine and the smells. I have kept a lot of things African with me over the years, and whenever I've been back there it has always seemed very familiar.

Kenya had become an independent country as recently as 1963, throwing off British rule, and the situation there was still volatile. By 1965, it was getting quite dangerous to be a white person there. My dad had job offers in Ireland and Hong Kong but Ireland seemed closer to the family, so we came here, settling in Malahide, a suburban coastal town about eight miles from Dublin.

It's great for me to hear he has such happy memories from Kenya... and that he has been back since!

 

[Dahlia]

Did he say what year they moved? I'm guessing it must have been somewhere around the Independence...

Kenya had become an independent country as recently as 1963, throwing off British rule, and the situation there was still volatile. By 1965, it was getting quite dangerous to be a white person there.

I'd say 1965 then

 

[Merc]

Thanks Dahlia, but as you posted I was editing my own post ^!

 

[hcbiggs2002]

YAY! I finally got my copy of the book today!! *does vertual happy dance*....

Looked through the whole book and loved all the gorgeous pics and I've read the first 5 chapters (love Edges description of the U2 'ship'! ), and I'm just wading through the 6th chapter! I'll scan some pages when I get home this weekend!!

It only cost 24.90e here! When I saw the price, from one of the book signing pics in Dublin, as it being over 30 euros there, I was sure it would more expensive here, but I was happily surprised to find it almost 10 euros cheaper here in Finland!

 

[iriden]

^^
you're so lucky..it seems the Italian version will be nearly 49€..that's why I had my english one from amazon (a lot cheaper but not as much as yours..oh well I had shipping costs included), and now it's safe in my room

 

[hcbiggs2002]

Oh yeah, I suppect that the reason why it is so much cheaper is coz it's the English version, which what I wanted anyway. But it would definately more expensive if the book was it Finnish!

 

[hcbiggs2002]

I know most of the photos of this book has probably been posted by now, all I can see are a lot of red crosses , but as promised here are a couple of my favourites....