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Bono's Given Me His Word...and I Won't Let Him Down
The People,
October 06, 2002
One of Bono's old school pals has admitted he is terrified of selling his U2 memorabilia -- in case he gets a rocket from the star.
Bono gave Neil McCormack a collection of handwritten lyrics -- now worth tens of thousands of euro -- when they were teenagers at Dublin's Mount Temple School. But music writer McCormack this week said it was unlikely that he would ever part with the papers, despite their spiralling value. "I do sometimes think this is a retirement policy," he told the BBC. "But then I also think that it would be very embarrassing to sell. "Bono might, like Paul McCartney, call up and say, 'how did you get your hands on those?' "McCartney goes round suing people and getting this kind of stuff back." McCormack was asked about his collection ahead of a major rock memorabilia sale at London auction house Christie's this week. One item in the sale was a tape of an early David Bowie concert, which was expected to fetch up to e45,000. McCormack, who now works for the Daily Telegraph in London, said Bono had specially written out the words to some of his early songs for him. He had also acquired Adam Clayton's original bass guitar around the same time -- although its value has actually fallen. "Unfortunately it's not worth anything any more because in a fit of stupidity as a teenager I sawed the body off it in order to make it look like a more interesting shape," McCormack said. "It is actually worth less than I paid for it in the first place." The value of U2 memorabilia has soared in recent years, particularly in the U.S. The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is due to devote a major exhibition to the band early next year. © The People, 2002. All rights reserved.
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