- Music
- 29 Mar 01
Zooropa: The Greatest Show on Earth...
...or was it? U2's recent Irish dates were greeted with everything from wide-eyed adoration to open hostility. BILL GRAHAM was in the crowd at Pairc Uí Caoimh and the RDS and puts the Zoo TV experience into perspective. Pix: COLM HENRY
SOME DAYS, I'm a gardening correspondent. Other days, I write about golf and knitting. Supreme qualifications, as you can imagine, for my editor, who rang me up and sent me to the RDS to cover U2.
"U2" I said. "Those four boyos moulded and masterminded by the arch-guru, McGuinness?"
"The very same," he replied.