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World Leader Pretend
U2's self-invented legacy is a figment of Bono's imagination
By Joe Watson
Apr 21, 2005
U2 has gone from the band that mattered most to arguably the most irrelevant. There, I said it. But just because I threw myself on the proverbial cross and 'fessed up, I don't expect you to go out and hawk your tickets to U2's sold-out show at American Airlines Center...
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