Interview with Neil McCormick

Industry, Pennsylvania, June 25, 2011

One of the closest people to U2 in the early days was their childhood friend, Neil McCormick, who was also a musician and longed to be part of their band.

Though he never became a member of U2, he did become a successful journalist, writing for The Daily Telegraph, GQ, Hot Press, The Irish Independent and many more.

He authored a book, Killing Bono, which was made into a film in 2011. The weekend of the U2 concert in Pittsburgh that spring, I had the honor of interviewing Mr. McCormick after a screening of the film.

Since we’d met back in 2009 during the first U2 conference, the chat was lighthearted and the audience was fantastic, asking all of the right questions and laughing along with us.

It was great catching up with him again.