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Remembering U2's Breakout

By Billy Manes

Orlando Weekly | November 29, 2007

Long since resigned to the coffee tables of khaki families or wedged on shelves next to the Bible and The Da Vinci Code, it's easy to forget the widescreen impact of U2's 1987 world-altering breakout.

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