U2: Rockin' in the Not So Free World (Part 2)
Gavin Martin, NME, 23 December 1989
BONO'S OSAKA Plaza hotel room is littered with the ephemera of a rock 'n' roll traveler. There are Japanese picture books for his baby daughter Jordan, a battered acoustic guitar, bedtime reading of his own by Australian lay-preacher John Smith, a hippyish hessian shoulder bag and tapes of Neil Young and Rod Stewart.
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