6/29/2023 0 Comments Your favorite band is killing meAm I boogin’ ya I doon’t mean to boog ya. Steven Hyden explores nineteen music rivalries and what they say about life in this 'highly entertaining' book (Rolling Stone) perfect for every passionate music fan. Though it you want to know about that exercise, I can recommend Glen Berger’s Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History.Īnyway. Or to point out that two episodes from the author’s career - though I would not call them successes - go unmentioned entirely: U2’s 9/11 memorial performance at the 2002 Super Bowl halftime show, and Bono and The Edge’s ill-fated foray (with Julie Taymor!) into musical theatre with the Broadway flop Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. I didn’t find space to point out that the only two living world leaders for whom The Fly has anything less than an admiring word are Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. U2 was my first favorite band, and I remain, as I say in the piece, “wearily devout.” It’s been a few years (but only two albums) since the Paper of Record let me rank their albums! (I’d like a word with circa-2009 me about some of my decisions.) Reviewing Bono’s memoir for the Washington Post was a big deal for me.
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