U2 Show

In a coffee-table volume boasting over 500 photos from the band's official archive, photographer Scrimgeour, who traveled with the band on its 2001 Elevation tour, offers an unprecedented look--""the definitive and fully authorised story of our touring history,"" according to U2 and manager Paul McGuinness--at the Irish foursome who've been rocking for nearly 25 years. ""We could only play three chords when we started,"" Bono says of their salad days, when they played in Dublin bars to crowds numbering in (maybe) the dozens. ""But we knew there was an excitement.... We just put our lives on the line and just kind of went for it."" With his puffy hair, pleated shirt and plaid trousers, the young Bono is a far cry from the black-clad, sunglasses-sporting Bono of today, but the stage presence was there from the get-go, as these photographs reveal. Interviews with key players--McGuinness; Joe O'Herlihy, the band's audio director; Brian Eno; Peter Gabriel; Island Records founder Chris Blackwell; etc.--round out this excellent tribute, a must for any fan.