CENTERSTAGE

Somebody up there must really like U2. Of all their contemporaries, from the Psychedelic Furs to the Smiths, from Big Country to Simple Minds, U2 has emerged as rock ’n’ roll’s great torchbearers, the band to transport us back to a time when music really mattered, when being a rock star meant a little more than hawking yer wares on a Honda commerical.