U2 At The End of the World - Bill Flanagan

Strategically speaking, 1995 was not a good year to publish a U2 biography. The band had released two albums in the previous four years, supporting the Billboard-topping releases with a massive, two-year tour stretching from Florida, USA, to Tokyo, Japan. U2 had won three consecutive Grammys, even beating out a sea of Seattle contenders for 1993's Alternative Music award. A string of memorable videos earned the group performances at the 1992 and 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, and relationships with the likes of Salman Rushdie, Naomi Campbell, Bill Clinton and Frank Sinatra kept U2 prominent in the tabloids. For four years, U2 saturated its fans with albums, ...  Read the complete review