The times they were a-changin’. When U2 wrapped up their eighties with a series of homecoming gigs at the Point Depot in Dublin in December 1989, they had already smelt the coffee.
Seven weeks previously, the Berlin Wall had come down. Revolution had spread to Czechoslovakia and then Romania. And the new decade was already acquiring a new soundtrack – dance and hip-hop were the rising forces and the rock bands who assimilated these best looked likely to be the ones to prosper in the 1990s.
