Exclusive excerpt from Bono's new memoir: The story behind 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'

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Exclusive excerpt from Bono's new memoir: The story behind 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'
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Each of the 40 chapters is named after a U2 song. Bono did the illustrations.

How long, how long must we sing this song?Only one is essential for war. The drums. The drums are thin skin stretched tightly over hollow volumes, mostly of wood, which gives them their earthiness, their sexiness. Slapping without the tickling.

And he does. He can hit people, too, not physically, but psychically. Most people who enter a room with Larry Mullen find him striking, in the sense that he is a stylish, good-looking member of the species but also in the sense that he can be suspicious of why you are in his gaze. Of your intentions, your being in the room, and, perhaps on a bad day, your reason for being anywhere at all.

This is not an environment conducive to art. The room feels more like an operating theater than a stage, surgeons conferring on how best to fix the limp in question. Corrective surgery or amputation? The patient lies under the gaze and glare of the production team, Steve Lillywhite and his engineer, Paul Thomas. There is a lot of stopping and starting. Steve’s matter-of-fact tones now a tinny voice coming through our “cans.

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