From the Archives: U2 Versus The USA

To celebrate our new issue, with Ireland's most famous band on the cover and Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam opening up inside, we're taking a trip down memory lane.
To 1981, to be specific, and to legendary HP writer Bill Graham, who arrives in Chicago's O'Hare Airport to be greeted by The Edge. From there, a firsthand account of the young band's early experiencing in the great continent across the ocean.
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To add to the ambience, here's a full show the band played in San Francisco around that period. The haircuts are decidedly dodgy, but they are undoubtedly going places...

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