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Bono’s Dosh: U2 and Money

Phil Sutcliffe, Payday, March 2002

"WE'RE NOT GOING to let people rip us off, we want the money!" That's what Bono said in 1979 when Dublin's teenaged hopefuls U2 were asked how they would cope with the wicked business of rock'n'roll.

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