U2 France

December 01, 1988

Memo from the Eye of the Storm: through the office walls comes the rattle and hum of typewriters and tape-machines as stout-hearted volunteers attempt to wrestle the contents of four hours’ worth of cassette recording onto paper. Ah yes, I do believe we’ve been down this road before. I seem to recognise the territory. I’ll always have plenty of time for Bono but rarely enough tape. I’m not much given to quoting myself (I leave that to others, har har), but that line which I wrote after interviewing U2 three years cars ago, applies as forcefully on this mad Monday deadline afternoon, that follows another long, late-night conversation with yer man.

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