'Books about U2' includes books written about the band by close collaborators, or books U2 have written themselves about the band, while 'Non-U2 Books' are books that the band have been involved in writing, but they aren't about the band. And take a look at other in print offerings from U2, and about U2. Take a look at the specially crafted tour books for various tours. Skim through information about U2's fan club magazines, World Service Magazine and two volumes of Propaganda. It is not an attempt to catalog every book ever written about the band. Told with wit, insight and astonishing candour by the band themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, 'U2 by U2' allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times.This section includes books and other print formats, and will contain books about the band as well as books the band have been involved in writing. From the anarchic days of their Seventies punk origins through their Eighties ascent to superstardom with the epic rock of 'The Joshua Tree', the dark post-modern ironies of 'Achtung Baby' in the Nineties and their 21st-Century resurgence as rock's biggest and boldest band, this is a tale of faith, love, drama, family, birth, death, survival, conflict, crises, creativity. In a epic journey that has taken them from the clubs of Dublin to the stadiums of the world, U2 have sold over 130 million albums, been number one all over the world, revolutionized live performance, spearheaded political campaigns and made music that defines the age we live in.
Over thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. The drum kit just about fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all and nobody wanted to sing.
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