Bono and Jack White wonder: Just how immortal is rock music?

In the third excerpt from his new book, rock critic Robert Hilburn sits down with a couple of today's titans to gauge the future. After John Lennon's death in 1980, Hilburn focused on artists who carried on in Lennon's tradition, including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, U2 and Kurt Cobain. But in the second half of the decade, the music began to drift and widespread piracy threatened to throw the recording ...

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