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U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

Nick Southall, Stylus, 23 November 2004

AH, U2, ONCE AGAIN PERCHED at the apex of world rock cool as they prepare to release (or is that unleash?) their umpteenth album. Mullets, white flags, enormous sunglasses, giant lemons — it's been quite a career, not all of it pretty. Ten years ago they were — well, not quite a laughing stock, but somewhere on the way to it.

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