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Tim Cooper, The Evening Standard, 24 November 2017

I HEAR THAT U2 have a new album coming out. I know this not because I have received a press release (though I have) but because all the music journalists I know have already begun sharpening their pens – or fingers, or whatever you sharpen now that nobody writes anything down in longhand any more. They do this every time U2 bring out an album, as regular as the first cuckoo of spring, because music journalists hate U2 – and Bono in particular. They hate them with a vengeance.

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