U2 and Me, part 3

Hayes

While U2 licked their wounds inflicted by the backlash against their jive through the archives of rock ’n’ roll that was Rattle & Hum, Europe was struggling, with optimism and despair, to adjust to its eastern and central borders that had become as fluid as mercury.

Speculation, following The Edge’s enigmatic statement in Dublin’s Point Depot on the last night of the Rattle and Hum Lovetown tour, suggested the band was no longer…