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U2: Remembering The Unforgettable Fire

Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, June 2009

YOU TOO COULD love U2, if you could only transport yourself back to a time when their fundamental pomposity and crusading bad faith weren't such a turnoff – a time when they were at their first major crossroads, uncertain of which direction to turn. A time that produced The Unforgettable Fire.

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