Do you foresee it being as big as The Joshua Tree or Achtung Baby, or bigger than that?
Well, I don’t know, because those moments create themselves. U2 were riding the crest of a wave — it wasn’t just to do with U2. Just as fame isn’t about the famous person, but what the audience needs or wants from them at that given time. I’m sure that U2 being the professional organization that they have, delivering — you know, they try and make big records that speak to the world and that’s what they’ve delivered. I’m sure their organization will spring into motion and try to make this a 10-million plus selling album. But, whether they will capture the zeitgeist in a way they did at the end of the ’80s, start of the ’90s and just reverberate through the whole world is something that no one can predict because some force of the world that will decide that. How are you collaborating with the band on the U2 by U2 book project? They’ve read my book, obviously, because Bono wrote the forward for it. I just kept them in the loop, really. I did speak to him before writing it, because if h
