In 1975, four Dublin teenagers gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. The drum kit almost fit into the room, the lead guitarist was playing a homemade guitar, the bassist could barely play at all, and nobody wanted to sing. Over 30 years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Lar[...]

A music critic and childhood friend offers an intimate portrait of U2 and its charismatic frontman, Bono, describing their mutual love of music, their formation of a band that went on to become U2, and his own unfulfilled dreams as he watches his childhood companion become a world famous celebrity a[...]