Exclusive: Bono Remembers U2's Boy

This could be the greatest comment on ever: U2s Bono was reading David Frickes Cheap Rosetta Stone review of the new reissue of Boy, and was moved to respond. Unfortunately, he maxed out our word limit in the comments section, so were just going to post his text in full here. Were not going to attempt to boil it down, except to say that he does mention that the band is presently attempting to finish their most "complete and radical album yet." Without further ado:Entering the blogosphere, a review of BOY from the singer who was one at the time of recording... We the members of said post punk combo are very complimented by DAVID FRICKES 4.5 star review of our debut, an album we always believed in. I remember now a generous JON PARELES review from the VILLAGE VOICE in 1980, a line something along the lines of "this is peter pan, I hope they break up before they grow up". Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 Anyway, as my band mates and I attempt to finish our most complete and radical album yet, heres my why and what i think is right and wrong about BOY having listened to it for the first time in over twenty years if you start from the pseudo british accent and the little reported fact that the singer sounds like a girl, things dont look too promising ...the annoying gene is present in self consciousness and self immolation... you do want to give the singer a slap for lots of reasons but lets start with the pretentiousness....the singer has obviously been listening to SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES, JOY DIVISION and a few others whose combined archness and artfulness was just too much for the freckled face teenager from northside of DUBLIN.... neither fully protestant or catholic, IRELAND had left the boy with a face like a Rosetta Stone Japanese baked bean and in search of a nonregional identity...a theme that continues to the present.As for the non lyrics that Wunderkind STEVE LILYWHITE had begged him to no avail to write... well....the excuse is that in the manner of another POP idol, IGGY, they were for the most written live on the microphone ..this was noble in its search for authenticity but a very flawed idea that almost gauges the eyes out of the albums open face but alas, the strengths way out weigh the weaknesses...maybe because it was an album about vulnerability.. BOY eschews the usual subject matter of rock and rolls hurry to deface its own innocence through knowingness, sex, drugs etc in favour of a refusal to grow up ...think GUNTER GRASSs Tin Drum VOLKER SCHLONDORFs film of the novel released the same year as Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 BOY...if ninetynine percent of rock and roll is about sex this one percenter is about virginity and not wanting to lose it...malene Atildeiss is more elusive here and I can see now why the album had such a connection in the gay community with songs like TWILIGHT and STORIES FOR BOYS.

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