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ACHTUNG U2 FANS! Spend a weekend in Durham, North Carolina, talking, listening and learning about what U2 has done. Scholars, teachers, students, journalists, clergy, musicians and intellectually curious U2 fans are meeting for a rich program of exploring this one-of-a-kind band for a one-of-a-kind conference. We hope you'll be in the room.
Is this band of ambitions, paradoxes, ironies and sincerity the real thing? If you think U2 has played a role in changing the worlds of music, entertainment, popular culture, humanitarian relief, peace and social justice efforts - or has changed the world in you - then come join the conversation. Meet us in the sound! (And take in a U2 concert the same weekend too, just down the road in Raleigh.)
(Jim Henke will appear via video.)
Jim Henke is Vice President of Exhibitions and Curatorial Affairs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and the first American journalist to interview U2. Henke began his career at Rolling Stone magazine in 1977 and served as the magazine’s music editor for nearly a decade. While at Rolling Stone, Henke co-edited The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll and The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Henke’s recent books include Lennon Legend, a biography of John Lennon, published in 2003, Bob Marley Legend, his biography of Bob Marley, published in 2006, and The Jim Morrison Scrapbook, released in fall 2007. Henke once gave Bono a book about Martin Luther King Jr., which Bono later said helped inspire him to write 'Pride (In the Name of Love)'.
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