Killing Bono

Author : Neil McCormick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416505563
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Bono written by Neil McCormick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-10-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 U2 ascended to global superstardom, his school friend Neil scorched a burning path in quite the opposite direction. Bad drugs, weird sex, bizarre haircuts: Neil experienced it all in his elusive quest for fame. But sometimes it is life's losers who have the most interesting tales to tell. Featuring guest appearances by the Pope, Bob Dylan, and a galaxy of stars, Killing Bono offers an extremely funny, startlingly candid, and strangely moving account of a life lived in the shadows of superstardom. “The problem with knowing you is that you've done everything I ever wanted to,” Neil once complained to his famous friend. “I'm your doppelganger,” Bono replied. “If you want your life back, you'll have to kill me.” Now there was a thought...

Author : Neil McCormick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141013060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I was Bono's Doppelgänger written by Neil McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all went to school with friends who've turned out more successful than ourselves. But they don't all call up from improbably glamorous places and drive us mad by telling us about it. And they're not all Bono. Neil McCormick always dreamed of life as a rock star. Instead he had to watch while his friend became one of the most famous men on the planet. Read it and weep - with sympathy and with laughter.

Author : John Hollway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369143
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Time written by John Hollway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, John Thompson was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a prominent white man in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was sent to Angola Prison and confined to his cell for twenty-three hours a day. However, Thompson adamantly proclaimed his innocence and just needed lawyers who believed that his trial had been mishandled and would step up to the plate against the powerful DA’s office. But who would fight for Thompson’s innocence when he didn’t have an alibi for the night of the murder and there were two key witnesses to confirm his guilt? Killing Time is about the eighteen-year quest for Thompson’s freedom from a wrongful murder conviction. After Philadelphia lawyers Michael Banks and Gordon Cooney take on his case, they struggle to find areas of misconduct in his previous trials while grappling with their questions about Thompson’s innocence. John Hollway and Ronald M. Gauthier have interviewed Thompson and the lawyers, and paint a realistic and compelling portrait of life on death row and the corruption in the Louisiana police and DA’s office. When it is found that evidence was mishandled in a previous trial that led to his death sentence in the murder case, Thompson is finally on his road to freedom—a journey that continues with his suit against Harry Connick, Sr. and the New Orleans DA’s office to this day.

Author : Neil McCormick
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783526645
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book #Zero written by Neil McCormick and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert G. Lawson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813174643
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? written by Robert G. Lawson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight—presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours later, Brown was found dead in a driveway near the center of campus, strangled to death with her own brassiere. Kentuckians from across the state became engrossed in the proceedings as lead after lead went nowhere. Four years later, the police investigation completely stalled. In 1965, a drifter named Alex Arnold Jr. confessed to the killing while in jail on other charges in Oregon. Arnold was brought to Lexington, indicted for the murder of Betty Gail Brown, and put on trial, where he entered a plea of not guilty. Robert G. Lawson was a young attorney at a local firm when a senior member asked him to help defend Arnold, and he offers a meticulous record of the case in Who Killed Betty Gail Brown? During the trial, the courtroom was packed daily, but witnesses failed to produce any concrete evidence. Arnold was an alcoholic whose memory was unreliable, and his confused, inconsistent answers to questions about the night of the homicide did not add up. Since the trial, new leads have come and gone, but Betty Gail Brown's murder remains unsolved. A written transcript of the court proceedings does not exist; and thus Lawson, drawing upon police and court records, newspaper articles, personal files, and his own notes, provides an invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most famous cold cases.

Author : Emily Wolf
Publisher : She Writes Press
ISBN 13 : 1647420814
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Thirty-First Year (and Other Calamities) written by Emily Wolf and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Superb characterizations round out this captivating production." —Library Journal, Best Audiobooks of 2022 On her 30th birthday, Yale-educated Zoe Greene was supposed to be married to her high-school sweetheart, pregnant with their first baby, and practicing law in Chicago. Instead, she’s planning an abortion and filing for divorce. Zoe wants to understand why her plans failed—and to move on, have sex, and date while there’s still time. As she navigates dysfunctional penises, a paucity of grammatically sound online dating profiles, and her paralyzing fear of aging alone, she also grapples with the pressure women feel to put others first. Ultimately, Zoe’s family, friends, incomparable therapist, and diary of never-to-be-sent letters to her first loves, the rock band U2, help her learn to let go—of society’s constructs of female happiness, and of her own.

Author : K. Bono
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546894483
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karma's Dagger written by K. Bono and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous and brilliant femme fatale physicist, Danika Scheeler, and an angry ex-high-level "Deep State" government hacker, Xavier Xristos, team up to exploit a scientific breakthrough, a matter-anti-matter (M.A.M.) device. Turning a revolutionary invention, originally created for the good of humanity, into a global threat and weapon of mass destruction, madman Xristos is on a mission to use it anywhere and at anytime - for profit, power, and revenge. Contracted by a clandestine consortium of five nations, an organization known as T.R.I.O., three professional killers are tasked with the mission to save the world from one of the most threatening and devastating weapons of all time. Each incredibly unique in their backgrounds, tactical/killing methods, beliefs, and ways of coping with their deadly jobs. A pompous English techie with a royal background, a scruffy Romeo from the Australian Outback, and a stern, callous German are the team of "antiheroes" charged to save the world before their sorted pasts resurface and destroy them. From their home countries, to India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Canada, this globe hopping action thriller brings you the heart-pounding emotional ups and downs, vicious hand-tohand combats and deafening gun fights that lurk around every corner. Add a mysterious, sexually hypnotic, and deadly woman to the mix, and this world-saving mission, is an exciting, thrilling, and tragic journey. Innocents killed, intertwined trysts, pasts haunt - it all comes full circle in "Karma's Dagger."

Author : Pat Brown
Publisher : Phoenix Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597775754
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing for Sport written by Pat Brown and published by Phoenix Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criminal profiler journeys inside the dark minds of serial killers to provide a portrait of these deadly predators, how they hunt for victims, how to identify them, and how to protect oneself from them.

Author : U2
Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780061903854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U2 by U2 written by U2 and published by It Books. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, four teenagers from Mount Temple School in Dublin gathered in a crowded kitchen to discuss forming a band. More than thirty years later, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr are still together, bound by intense loyalty, passionate idealism, and a relentless belief in the power of rock and roll to change the world. In an epic journey that has taken the band from the clubs of Dublin to the stadiums of the world, U2 has sold more than 130 million albums, revolutionized live performance, spearheaded political campaigns, and made music that defines the age in which we live. Told with wit, insight, and astonishing candor by the band members themselves and manager Paul McGuinness, with pictures from their own archives, U2 by U2 allows unprecedented access into the inner life of the greatest rock band of our times.

Author : Roger Stone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632200406
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Killed Kennedy written by Roger Stone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated. The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ hit the New York Times bestseller list the week of the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Consummate political insider Roger Stone makes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK. Stone maps out the case that LBJ blackmailed his way on the ticket in 1960 and was being dumped in 1964 to face prosecution for corruption at the hands of his nemesis attorney Robert Kennedy. Stone uses fingerprint evidence and testimony to prove JFK was shot by a long-time LBJ hit man—not Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas, from the criminal underworld, and from the United States government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it. Legendary political operative and strategist Roger Stone has gathered documents and uses his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK’s assassination, but was in fact the mastermind. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.