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Here you'll find a few, brief quotes from the BP Fallon book, "U2 Faraway So Close". The book was published in 1994, but is (unfortuneatly) now out of print...Anyway, if you can get it through your library, go for it. The book is extremely entertaining. These are the parts I enjoyed the most...
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"So you're driving along with Dennis at the wheel and Suzanne in the back, driving along to the production rehearsals at Hershey - "The Fun Starts Here" the sign says when you get there. But you haven't got there yet, not today anyway - and in the car in front of us is Bono driving with Edge beside him and Larry and Adam more safely tucked in the back. Bono's style of driving might charitably be called freeform, with not the most regard in the world for indicating or staying in the same lane or, often , not being entirely sure of where he's going or how to get from A to B without going via Z."
-B.P Fallon (From the book "U2 Faraway So Close")
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"...A lone girl suddenly manages to break through the cordon, zig zags out of reach as security tries to grab her. Now she's on the bonnet of the car hysterically howling through the windscreen at Bono, "I want to fuck you"! Bono stops the car slowly, so as not to hurt the excited girl. Next thing she's ripped open the door and is grabbing at Bono who looks at you startled, amazed and laughing. A more elderly Spanish-looking lady tugs at her errant daughter, babbling furiously in Spanish with what can only be interpreted as the threat of all manner of unwelcome punishments. Two more girls elbow the first one aside and hands like tentacles grasp at the "Oh my God I can't believe this" driver. In the back seat Edge, Adam and Paul look on dumbfounded as Bono is being kissed and clawed. Rescue comes in the shape of Darrell who gently prises the inflamed fans away from their object of desire as Bono sits there, half shocked and half luxuriating in the sudden adoration..."
-B.P Fallon (from the book, "U2 Faraway So Close")
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"Bono, he's technically illiterate. Backstage in New Jersey, he's trying in vain to get the cap off a bottle of headache pills. "I can't get the top off" he's wailing. "Of course you can't" says Dennis, "it's childproof.""
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"In San Sebastian, Bono decides to ride to the airport at Bilbao a couple of hours' drive away on the coach in stead of in his limo. "Can I go on the buss" he asks no one in particular. Even before we've hit the beauty of the Spanish countryside baking under the sun, a few blocks down the road he's stopped the coach for vino and beer and Bono, he's singing Cliff's "We're all going on a summer holiday"... and laughing behind his Fly shades. "Oh dear" he cackles, "Dennis is going to be really annoyed at me for stopping. Oh, I'm in trouble - when we get there he's going to be looking at his watch..." Not long later Bono has completely forgotten his apprehensions about being labelled irresponsible by Mr. Sheehan. With a bottle of wine in his hand and more wine inside him, he's half shouting "This is great, isn't it? We travel the world, don't have to shoot people, get to play rock'n'roll...and we get paid for it! Does anyone know the words to Living Doll?""
-B.P. Fallon (from the book, "U2 Faraway So Close")
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