Tom Dunne: For U2-watchers, it was no surprise Bono and co made it  

I saw U2 many times in Dublin in the early days, a period that's nicely-evoked in Bono's new memoir, Surrender 

Bono pictured with Adam Clayton in 1984. (Picture: Larry Ellis/Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

“I’m friends with the president, I’m friends with the pope,” is a line from a Ramones song that no self-respecting punk band in 1970s Ireland wasn’t familiar with. 

Yet we didn’t suspect that one day, the music one of our number was making, would make him friends with actual presidents and actual popes. Yep, the U2 ride was not like other rides.