A classic U2 interview from the vaults

U2 are re-releasing their classic album Achtung Baby to mark its 20th anniversary. In our latest visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we reprint an interview by the late Robert Sandall with rock's new arch ironists that was first published in May 1992 Having, by his own account, spent most of the 1980s "trying to dodge being a rock star," Bono (aka Paul Hewson, the singer and most prominent member of the Irish supergroup U2)...

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