40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart

The Definitive Account of U2's Most Interesting Era

When U2 released Pop in 1997, the Irish quartet had been on a decade-long run of hits that included The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby. The band's Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold out venues the world over. But Pop turned out to be one of U2's worst-selling albums, and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname "Flop Mart" in the press. The Pop...