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U2: "It's the job of art to be divisive"

Dorian Lynskey, The Observer, 12 October 2014

Thirty years after becoming the biggest band in the world, Bono and co still polarise opinion. Here, taking a break in the Côte d'Azur, they discuss the Ireland of their youth, their Apple album giveaway — and why Bono works with people he would have once loathed

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