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* Fionan Hanvey (a.k.a. Gavin Friday) and Derek Rowen (a.k.a. Guggi) created in 1978 the Virgin Prunes, an avant-garde punk rock band where Dick Evans, The Edge’s elder brother, started out as well.
* “The Ocean,” from Boy.
* Lypton Village was the name of the surrealistic street gang Bono and his friends were part of, where name-giving was one of the rituals. (See Chapter 6)
* Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) taught poetry at the National University in Dublin.
* J. Robert Oppenheimer’s quote is: “I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.” The Bhagavad Gita says: “I am death, the mighty destroyer of the world.”
* “Colonel” Tom Parker was Elvis Presley’s manager.
* See Chapter 15.
* My wife’s name is actually Clara, but that was a good try.
* The man who shot John Lennon.
* A Christian group Bono, Edge, and Larry Mullen joined by 1981, whose purpose was to study the Scriptures.
* Located in Bray, fifteen miles south of Dublin, the tower that Bono bought belongs to a series of seventy-four towers erected by the British War Office around the coast of Ireland during the Napoleonic wars. They actually derive their names from a place in Corsica called Mortella, where stood a round tower that the English had besieged in vain in 1794. Napoleon is believed to have used the coast of Ireland as a “back door” for invading England. Forty feet high and eight feet thick, these small round towers have flat roofs to which a lookout could climb up and set fire to a bundle of wood to signal the arrival of an invading ship.
* Bobby Sands (1954–1981) was an Irish Republican from Belfast.
*Sandinista!, 1980.
* It might have been one of the three car bombs planted in the City Centre of Dublin on May 17, 1974, by Loyalist paramilitaries. As a result thirty-three civilians and an unborn child were killed.
* Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990.
* That, of course, was a few weeks before Brando’s death in June 2004.
* Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
* Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is most renowned for his Diaries.
*That question obviously was a last-minute addition.
* French pop radio station
† French chain of multimedia stores
*Chronicles: Volume One was published in October 2004. The book actually mentions Dylan’s own conversations with Bono: “Spending time with Bono was like eating dinner on a train—feels like you’re moving, going somewhere. Bono’s got the soul of an ancient poet and you have to be careful around him. He can roar ’til the earth shakes.”
*Balthus, born in 1908, died in 2001.
* Chorus from John Lennon’s “Instant Karma.”
* Producer and writer of Notting Hill and cofounder of “Make Poverty History.”