U2 Show
- Book Review,
by Diana Scrimgeour
From Publishers Weekly
In a coffee-table volume boasting over 500 photos from the band’s official archive, photographer Scrimgeour, who traveled with the band on its 2001 Elevation tour, offers an unprecedented look—"the definitive and fully authorised story of our touring history," according to U2 and manager Paul McGuinness—at the Irish foursome who’ve been rocking for nearly 25 years. "We could only play three chords when we started," Bono says of their salad days, when they played in Dublin bars to crowds numbering in (maybe) the dozens. "But we knew there was an excitement.... We just put our lives on the line and just kind of went for it." With his puffy hair, pleated shirt and plaid trousers, the young Bono is a far cry from the black-clad, sunglasses-sporting Bono of today, but the stage presence was there from the get-go, as these photographs reveal. Interviews with key players—McGuinness; Joe O’Herlihy, the band’s audio director; Brian Eno; Peter Gabriel; Island Records founder Chris Blackwell; etc.—round out this excellent tribute, a must for any fan.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Book Description
Authorized by the band, this is the inside story of U2's live career, from the very beginning to now-with more than 500 exclusive photos from the U2 archive, including many never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes shots.
Everything about U2 is huge-from their music to their tours to their influence on popular culture and politics worldwide. They are cultural icons as well as multimillion-album-selling pop stars.
Underpinning the band's popularity, from the beginning, is their passion for touring. For more than twenty years, U2 has been primarily a live band-hardly ever off the road. Performing live is what they love to do best. And it is their touring that defines their creativity and reflects the direction of the band. From the first bare-bones Tick Tock Tour of 1980 through the massive, seminal Joshua Tree and ZooTV tours of the eighties and nineties to the most recent, more intimate Elevation Tour of 2001, it is their live shows that have set U2's agenda.
For the first time, the band has agreed to chronicle this vital part of its creative energy. More than 500 photos from hundreds of performances have been handpicked from a twenty-five-year archive. Many of these photos are behind-the-scenes shots that have never been published before. The book includes commentary by Diana Scrimgeour, the official photographer on recent tours, as well as first-person accounts from band members, the core creative team, friends, and associates.
U2 Show is the music publishing event of 2004.
About the Author
Diana Scrimgeour is U2's official photographer.
U2, formed in Dublin in 1977, is the biggest band in the universe.
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