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...U2 Pop (Island) The Dublin-based rock supergroup replenishes its creative batteries by drawing on the trendy electronic-music scene. The end product is rock charged with lightning, as well as winking cultural commentary that suggests the question, In a world built on images and style, is there anything to hold on to? This is smart, self-aware stuff, acknowledging pop's shallowness while panning for nuggets of truth...
Whitehead has a reputation for following his own path. By the standards of the religious right, he qualifies as a bit of a cultural maverick. (His taste in music runs to the only-sometimes-spiritual U2 and the intricately ironic Beck. His favorite artist is the mordant British painter Francis Bacon.) Although the institute has never taken up a sexual-harassment case before, he says he accepted this one because it was a "human-rights issue." And because "I think she's telling the truth...
...Field's. His father owned the Chicago-based Marshall Field's department stores, leaving him a fortune. A ponytailed, multimillionaire socialite, Ted Field enjoyed the usual rich-boy playthings--racing cars and producing films--but chafed at his playboy image. Bored with collecting dividend checks, he asked his friend U2 manager Paul McGuinness about getting into the record business. "You can have all the money in the world and be the unhappiest guy in the world," says Field. "I wanted to do something that meant something in my life." And what would that be? Making hard-core rap records...
...grew up on Brooklyn's tough streets and still has the switchblade tongue to prove it. A lean, wary man and one of the few record executives who looks natural in jeans and a baseball cap, Iovine pulled himself up to become a trusted producer for Bruce Springsteen and U2...
...popularity of their "Hungry Like the Wolf" days, and perhaps, will never bring tears to the eyes of their female fans. But their electronica effort is valiant. As a foray into the new genre, Medazzaland winds up somewhat better than Depeche Mode's attempt, and falls slightly short of U2...