I wouldn't buy into their whole canon, but U2 have produced some great music and anyone who wouldn't have at least a greatest hits in their collection, then is a not just a hater of Bono but of pop music. Anyway Paul is a good ol' skin in my view, not afraid to piss off sectors of the music press, the EDF forum and his own drummer in order to do what he thinks might do some good. Meeting with George Bush can't have done his standing in the 'vaguely left-leaning' rock community much good. I hear tell that Springsteen threatened to write to the Pope to get him dropped from the private audience list and Michael Stipe refused to return his calls. For three days. And his shades rock. But I realise I've gone OT, oh yes that eye make up he wore in that Q interview, hated that. Well, didn't much like it. Yes, come on Hewson cop yourself on eye decoration-wise.