You're living the life I wanted.'Ī memoir (it says here) 'for anyone who's ever gurned in front of the mirror as they hit the high notes on their air guitar.' 'The phone rings: 'Neil, it's Bono, I've just recorded a duet with Frank Sinatra!' 'Aaarrrgghh! Leave me alone. 'The problem with knowing you is that you've done everything I ever wanted to,' as the writer puts it to the singer, in this wry and and rueful book published at the end of next month. 'A much better writer and I thought he'd make a great rock star.'īut as U2 went up, so McCormick went down. 'He was much cooler than me, ' recalls Bono. But 'the boy sitting on the other side of the classroom had plans of his own.'įunnily enough, the boy on the other side of the classroom, thought that McCormick was more likely to achieve musical divinity. McCormick, now a successful rock journalist and columnist on the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper, originally wanted to be a Rock God himself, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's. So writes Neil McCormick in 'I Was Bono's Doppelganger', a kind of memoir of growing up in the gigantic shadow cast by a classmate called Bono. and some have the misfortune to go to school with Bono'. Perhaps the strangest book yet, in the burgeoning genre of U2 literature. From The Ground Up: U2.Com Music Edition 18.
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