U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind Richard Ashcroft: Alone with Everybody
The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
WE WERE assured that Dublins finest would be going back to basics on All That You Cant Leave Behind; that theyd dispensed with the electro-trappings of Pop and written some driving blue-chip pop-rockers. But then some of us admired the qualified risks theyd taken on Pop and had had more than enough staple U2 to last a lifetime.
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