So it was easy for some people to take a shot at me and say, “He just wants more money for U2. It was difficult for me at times because what I was really saying was that the Internet as the new means of delivering music is not sharing its income with performers, writers, labels and publishers. Leading the fight against YouTube and tech companies on behalf of rights owners… The relationship with Arthur is absolutely at the heart of U2’s business. That deal became Clear Channel and is now Live Nation. I said the next tour is going to be underwritten by a single global promoter and that’s when we started working with Arthur Fogel and Michael Cohl. The ramifications of that spread throughout the industry. So by the end of that tour, which didn’t make any money, I resolved I was never going to do it ever again. If one of those promoters had not paid we would have been ruined. Because we were still operating like a punk band with low ticket prices.
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How 1992/‘93s Zoo TV tour forever changed the live business… So it wasn’t a particularly good deal, but we have been improving it ever since. But were literally the only label that wished to sign us. Chris wasn’t really very keen on U2 at the beginning. And there were two A&R people, Annie Roseberry and Nick Stewart, and they drove it. They were fans and they pushed it within the company. There were two really great guys in the press office at Island called Neil Storey and Rob Partridge. They’re not your songs.” They weren’t expecting that he would know. The main influences on them at the beginning were The Ramones and The Clash, and when they got the journalist Bill Graham to go to their rehearsal he said, “Those are Ramones songs. He was an extraordinary performer even then. What made him want to work with U2 the first time he saw them… Here’s some of the highlights from McGuinness’ chat with Bicknell. “Let’s say I’m lurking in the background, but I have no responsibilities,” McGuinness said about his former clients, who embark on The Joshua Tree Tour later this year in celebration of the album’s 30th anniversary. Billboard's 2014 Industry Icon: Paul McGuinness on 35 Years Guiding 'The Biggest Band in the World'…
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