The Wizards of Pop

[Rolling_Stone]

Who are those men behing the curtain? It's Bono! The Edge! Adam Clayton! Larry Mullen Jr.! On the eve of their supergiant '97 World Tour, U2 reveal the heart inside their consumer-nightmare machineSomebody is screwing up, coming in on the wrong beat every time somewhere near the start of the third verse. And it's throwing the whole song, not to mention the rest of the band and the mood of fragile optimism in the room, out of whack.For the past hour at the Factory, a rehearsal facility tucked up against a canal in the industrial docklands section of eastern Dublin, Ireland, the four members of U2 have been stoically grinding through take after take of what they think could be a hot...

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