U2 fans who want to know about the band's early days in Dublin will get a kick out of Neil McCormick's memoir,
I Was Bono's Doppelganger. It tells about his childhood growing up with the band in the late '70s. U2 become superstars, but McCormick's rock 'n' roll dreams never materialized. Now there's a movie based on the book, but the tome's spirit, candor and insights are mostly scrubbed clean. I reviewed
Killing Bono for
Yahoo.