U2: Flying High With a Jet Set
Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 31 May 1992
HAVING, BY his own account, spent most of the 1980s "trying to dodge being a rock star," Bono aka Paul Hewson, the singer and most prominent member of the Irish supergroup U2 now looks like a caricature of a man making up for lost time.
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