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#Zero
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

#Zero

Zero is the latest craze. Young, sexy and brilliant, he is a multi-hyphenated (singer-songwriter-rapper-producer) superstar for the digital generation. According to his publicist at least. He’s also a narcissistic, insecure, hyperactive, coke-snorting, pill-popping, loud-mouthed maelstrom of contradictions skating over the thin ice of terminal self-loathing. He has touched down in New York with his sycophantic entourage for the launch of a new single/album/movie/tour. It is countdown to Year Zero. But the boy at the centre of the media feeding frenzy is cracking up. Inside the echo chamber of his own skull, he isn't sure he deserves all the attention, doesn’t even know if he wants it anymore and is being driven half-mad by the mysterious absence of the love of his life. As the crucial hour approaches the young star cuts and runs, setting off on a wild trip across America pursued by paparazzi, fans, fortune hunters and his Mephistophelian manager, Beasley. He’s about to find out that when you have the most famous face in the world, you can run... but you can't hide.

I was Bono's Doppelgänger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

I was Bono's Doppelgänger

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The phone rings: 'Neil, it's Bono, I've just recorded a duet with Frank Sinatra!' 'Aaarrrgghh! Leave me alone. You're living the life I wanted' It's every boy's dream: to be a Rock God. Most of us leave the dream behind when reality bites, but that's not so easy when your mate's the lead singer in the biggest band in the world. Neil McCormick and Bono first met at school. Their continued friendship only highlights Neil's failure to live the dream. Self-deprecating, charming and very, very funny, this is a memoir for anyone who's ever gurned in front of the mirror as they hit the high notes on their air guitar . . .

Killing Bono
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Killing Bono

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-31
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Neil McCormick always dreamed of life as a rockstar. Instead he had to watch while his friend became one.'Killing Bono' tells the story of the rival band which he set up with his brother set up in the late 1970s. While the young brothers struggled to find success, Bono and his friends went on to achieve superstar status.

Killing Bono
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Killing Bono

Longtime friend and reporter, Neil McCormick, reveals childhood and present day stories about Bono and his band, U2. Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some have the misfortune to go to school with Bono. Everyone wants to be famous. But as a young punk in Dublin in the 1970s, Neil McCormick's ambitions went way beyond mere pop stardom. It was his destiny to be a veritable Rock God. He had it all worked out: the albums, the concerts, the quest for world peace. There was only one thing he hadn't counted on. The boy sitting on the other side of the classroom had plans of his own. Killing Bono is a story of divergent lives. As Bono and his band...

I Was Bono's Doppelganger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

I Was Bono's Doppelganger

Neil McCormick went to school with Bono. In fact, his brother was in the original version of the band that would turn out to be U2. McCormick was with them every step of the way, jealous of their steady rise to rock stardom while he became a music journalist hanging on to their coattails. But friendship with the band endured and this humourous book is the story of that relationship, as well as telling the author's own fascinating story.

U2 by U2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

U2 by U2

"I always thought the job was to be as great as you could be." - Bono This is the story of U2, in their own words and pictures.

Play Guitar with U2 (the Best of U2)
  • Language: en

Play Guitar with U2 (the Best of U2)

Twelve of U2's greatest songs with "soundalike" backing tracks and full instrumental demos on CD. Each song is offered in guitar tab and standard notation plus chord symbols and complete lyrics for vocalists. The two CDs contain full performance demos showing how each song should sound and separate backing tracks without the guitar so that you can play along with these rock superhits. Titles are: All I Want Is You * Beautiful Day * Desire * Elevation * Even Better Than the Real Thing * Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For * New Year's Day * One * Pride (In the Name of Love) * Sunday Bloody Sunday * Where the Streets Have No Name.

Lean but Agile
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Lean but Agile

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-30
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  • Publisher: AMACOM

As organizations strive to meet stringent budgets, the mandate to produce greater results with fewer resources is no longer sufficient. Rather than accepting less, managers and executives must strive for better--evaluating every process and every role and doing away with assumptions about how work gets done and who does it in order to streamline processes and maximize efficiency. William Rothwell, who was honored with the ASTD Distinguished Contribution Award in Workplace Learning and Peformance, presents a system for analyzing work and selecting the ideal combination of cost-effective resources--employees, consultants, contractors, temporary workers, and vendors--to accomplish it. Lean but ...

My Amy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

My Amy

Written with a searing honesty and published for the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship – and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage. Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself. He is Tyler James, Amy’s best friend from the age of thirteen. They met at stage school as two insecure outsiders, formed an instant connection and lived together from their late teenage years right up until the day she died, aged just twenty-seven. Tyler was there by her side through it all. From their carefree early years touring together to the creation of the multiple Grammy-winning B...

Mysterious Skin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Mysterious Skin

Wrenching . . . powerfully sensuous. -- New York Times As searing and unforgettable as an electric shock. --Kirkus Reviews At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.