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Bono Book Completes Rock Hat-Trick
Aberdeen Press & Journal,
August 27, 2001
An Elgin-based author has written the first biography of one of rock's most flamboyant frontmen Bono.
Laura Jackson's book on the U2 star completes what she regards as a unique hat-trick following her earlier works on Queen legend Freddie Mercury and veteran Rolling Stone Mick Jagger. She said last night: "Now I have written books on each of the three best rock frontmen of all time." Bono the Biography is the first to have been penned about the life of the flamboyant 41-year-old, whose real name is Paul Hewson. Among people Laura, 43, interviewed during her research were Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Irish prime minister Gareth Fitzgerald. The book has also been given the seal of approval of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan who has written the preface. U2 mania is currently at fever pitch in Scotland after the last-minute announcement that the Irish super-group are to play gigs at Glasgow's SECC tonight and tomorrow as the climax to their five-month Elevation tour. All 19,000 tickets sold out in just two hours. Laura said that researching Bono had revealed his hidden depths. "Bono's character is one of the most intriguing there is, not only in rock but in popular culture because of just how different he is. He is not your normal rock star. I didn't know how much there was to him until I started to research him properly. There is much more to say than I think anyone would realise." Laura took up writing celebrity biographies after giving up work as a legal secretary. Her other books include studies of actors Ewan McGregor, Sean Bean and Daniel Day-Lewis and guitarist Brian May. In her biography Golden Stone, about the life and death of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, she became the first to claim he had been murdered. Bono the Biography will be published by Piatkus Book on September 27, priced Pounds 16.99. © Aberdeen Press & Journal, Inc., 2001. All rights reserved.
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