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Originally posted by kisho8[..]

Hi there wat's up

Originally posted by haytrain[..]

Hey Kisho....just relaxing here at home, watching a little TV....how are you doing?

Originally posted by kisho8[..]

dont forget to tell me whats all about?

Originally posted by thefly07[..]

here it is friend!

Treasure (whatever happened to Pete the Chop?) from Into the Heart by Niall Stokes

"Pete the Chop was a friend of Andrew Whiteway, one of the band's earliest management associates. 'Andrew had great fun working with us and avoiding whatever he was supposed to be doing in Trinity College,' Edge explains. 'He had a couple of friends come over when we played London, and one of them turned out to be Pete the Chop. After the show he came up to us and said I think you should write a song about me. And so we did.'

It was the most pop thing U2 had ever written and when their manager, Paul McGuinness, heard the demo, he thought, 'that's a hit single'. The people at Island felt the same.

'We said, nobody's ever going to hear it,' Bono recalls, 'because it would bury the band. And Paul used to get very pissed off that we weren't releasing the song.'

'It was very melodic,' The Edge adds, 'but not really very good.'

'So eventually we minced it,' Bono laughs. 'We turned it around, played it backwards, just sort of fucked it in the ear, and called it 'Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?'.

That, according to The Edge, was in the days when U2's albums were Top 30 but there was no sign of a hit single. 'The new title was a reference to the record company guys who were always saying to Paul McGuinness, 'Whatever happened to "Pete the Chop"? Remember that hit song? (laughs)'

Appropriately, 'Treasure' was the B-side of "New Year's Day", the band's breakthrough single in the UK, which was produced by Steve Lillywhite and released in January 1983"


There you go!

Originally posted by kisho8[..]

Thanks Man .

Glad that you remembered

Originally posted by thefly07[..]

you got it

Originally posted by kisho8[..]

So is this book contain the stories about every song and even the b-sides?

Originally posted by thefly07[..]

yep! the latest version covers Bomb, but doesn't cover any b-sides unless you consider Fast Cars, which is included in the main album section...was really looking forward to reading about the new b-sides oh well perhaps they will be covered on the next edition! one usually comes out a year or so after an album

definitely one of the best books I think! I discovered it when I got into them and it only went through to Pop and it was a great great thing to find as a new and hungry fan! Is it easy? hard? to find U2 merchandise in Egypt?

Originally posted by kisho8[..]

yep That's rigght when i find U2 By U2 In Egypt i collected money from my friends when we where in the store as there was only one copy , the considered me nuts , and the CD's are very little to find and madely very expensive

Originally posted by thefly07[..]

that sucks, i take for granted that in the States it is basically easy to find books and such at either Barnes and Noble or Best Buy etc

Originally posted by haytrainThat's it for me tonight....my first day back in the jobforce as a working stiff, and i'm exhausted!