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U2: Boys To Men

Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1998

It is the '80s, and the decade is full of one Irish band and their guitarist's exotic millinary. So, follow Edge through the first ever U2 best-of and its B-side compilation cousin, and remember 10 pivotal moments in U2 Before Irony. "I can't remember who we were then," he tells Phil Sutcliffe.

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