ADAM

A FILM I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING AGAIN: Flesh by Adovar.

AN ARTIST/ALBUM I'VE COME TO PLAY A LOT: Macy Gray, Echo Boy, Basement Jaxx, Rae and Christian.

TWO BOOKS I WAS GLAD I READ: Careless Love by Peter Guralnick, Breakfast on Pluto by Pat McCabe.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Air travel, Fender Jazz Bass.

COMMENT ON ENO/LANOIS/WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STUDIO AT THE MOMENT/MOOD, ETC.: "Nice Hair, Shame About the Shoes."

A TRACK I'D DEFINITELY PUT ON THE U2 BEST OF THE '90S ALBUM: "Miss Sarajevo."

WHERE TO GO IN DUBLIN: My house.

A QUOTATION I REMEMBER: "Give time time."

BONO

A FILM I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING AGAIN: The Tin Drum, set in Weimar, Germany in the '30s. It is about a boy who cannot/will not grow up. It came out at the same time as our first album. In fact, I went to see it with the first pressing of Boy under my arm. Synchronicity/serendipity -- I don't know. When I was eight, me and my mate Guggi made a pact "never to grow up." He became a painter, I joined a rock and roll band...the rest was easy.

AN ARTIST/ALBUM I'VE COME TO PLAY A LOT: Jeff Buckley - "Grace." Apart from being my favourite word or name in the English language, grace overpowers karma. Grace does not make sense. It rewards where rewards are not justified. It covers where no cover is expected. It is the highest human state. Jeff Buckley's voice reminds me of the first line of the old Salvation Army hymn, "Amazing Grace how sweet the sound." Grace as a signature. Grace personified in one man's vibrato -- a delicate tremulous voice which rightfully betrays its Middle Eastern tutelage. Jeff was trained in Sufi singing. His ululating voice reminds me how few singers there are in rock and roll.

ONE NEW U2 SONG I LIKE: "Kite." There's a hill behind my house. I took my two little girls up on the hill to prove to them and myself I could be the perfect parent. I brought a large four-foot by three-foot kite -- it lasted sixty seconds before it was taken out of my hands and crashed to the ground. The next attempt was taken off in a great gust never to be seen again...the third shot and the two little girls disappeared -- I'm still here...

TWO BOOKS I WAS GLAD I READ: Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet. A great book about being in a band in India, about being a singer, a performer, who eats and gets eaten by her audience -- planet Narcissus...New Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly. Kelly is a bit of a seer. If you were a capitalist, entrepreneur, i.e. pretty much everyone would be your manifesto for the next century.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A Siamese twin of the Tenth Century. Holy wars, unholy trade in gold, silver and human lives. Twentieth Century: the most barbaric of them all because for the first time we are aware of what was happening and let it continue: Hitler, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, etc.

COMMENT ON ENO/LANOIS/WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STUDIO AT THE MOMENT/MOOD, ETC.: Eno and Lanois are the yin and yang of U2. Between them we find our equilibrium: heart and mind in a duel to the death. When the band are on form the duel becomes a duet.

A TRACK I'D DEFINITELY PUT ON THE U2 BEST OF THE '90S ALBUM: "Your Blue Room" -- Passengers.

WHERE TO GO IN DUBLIN: Tosca -- my brother's Ital/Cal restaurant named after the opera of the same name. Myself and my brother grew up on Puccini. We used to tell our ol' man to turn that shit down -- as far as we were concerned it was heavy metal. It's now heavy pasta and I can still hear the music.

A QUOTATION I REMEMBER: "He is close to God who makes his friends laugh" -- the Koran.

THE EDGE

A FILM I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING AGAIN: Breaking the Waves. I didn't like it the first time I saw it -- it made me seasick, but something about it stuck with me.

AN ARTIST/ALBUM I'VE COME TO PLAY A LOT: The Young Disciples. I don't know why they broke up, they had something great going on.

ONE NEW U2 SONG I LIKE: They still have working titles which might change so I don't want to mention any by name, but I love them all.

TWO BOOKS I WAS GLAD I READ: Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare by Paul Colinvaux. Without trying to, this book explains why Greenpeace are right; the Bible.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: I'll be sorry to see it go. The 21st century has a lot to live up to.

COMMENT ON ENO/LANOIS/WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STUDIO AT THE MOMENT/MOOD, ETC.: Brian is his usual iconoclastic self; brilliant, funny, eccentric. Danny as committed as anyone could ever be, his eyes set wild when he feels strongly about something.

A TRACK I'D DEFINITELY PUT ON THE U2 BEST OF THE '90S ALBUM: "One."

WHERE TO GO IN DUBLIN: Dublin is about happenings which occur spontaneously here and there. Plans are made later to help explain what you did with your day.

A QUOTATION I REMEMBER: "One more drink and I'll be under the host." -- Dorothy Parker.

LARRY

A FILM I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING AGAIN: Any Bruce Lee movie.

AN ARTIST/ALBUM I'VE COME TO PLAY A LOT: Unkle.

ONE NEW U2 SONG I LIKE: "Bulldozer."

TWO BOOKS I WAS GLAD I READ: In '99: A Light in My Window by June Goulding and Rape of Mankind by Iris Chang.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Next.

COMMENT ON ENO/LANOIS/WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STUDIO AT THE MOMENT/MOOD, ETC.: "The band that plays together, stays together."

A TRACK I'D DEFINITELY PUT ON THE U2 BEST OF THE '90S ALBUM: "I'm Not Your Baby."

WHERE TO GO IN DUBLIN: Bono's.

A QUOTATION I REMEMBER: "Scotland is overrun by homosexuals" -- Pat Robertson, U.S. TV evangelist, 1999.

PAUL MCGUINNESS

A FILM I WOULDN'T MIND SEEING AGAIN: Ipcress File.

AN ARTIST/ALBUM I'VE COME TO PLAY A LOT: Etta James, Best of.

ONE NEW U2 SONG I LIKE: The one I heard yesterday.

TWO BOOKS I WAS GLAD I READ: The Power Broker (biography of Robert Moses, the architect of New York State and City).

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: Belongs to Rupert Murdoch...not really.

COMMENT ON ENO/LANOIS/WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE STUDIO AT THE MOMENT/MOOD, ETC.: Old dogs, new tricks.

A TRACK I'D DEFINITELY PUT ON THE U2 BEST OF THE '90S ALBUM: "Lemon."

WHERE TO GO IN DUBLIN: Unicorn Restaurant

A QUOTATION I REMEMBER: "The business of government is to make peace more desirable than war by encouraging the arts." -- Montesquien.

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