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U2: Re-issues

Mark Cooper, Q, January 1992

WHEN U2'S RECENT NUMBER 1 single 'The Fly' first came on the radio, it sounded like a confused mess, an irritating jangle of throbbing guitars juxtaposed with falsetto passages seemingly grafted on at random.

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