This is the story of four teenagers from Dublin who have sold more than 170 million records and spent five decades at the forefront of rock.

From a classroom in 1976, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. have created one of the most remarkable careers in music history, defined by boundless ambition, musical restlessness and a live show that transformed what a stadium concert could be. U2 have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band in history, and remain the only group ever to win Album of the Year twice.

From the raw urgency of Boy through the towering grandeur of The Joshua Tree, the post-modern spectacle of Zoo TV and the bruised intimacy of All That You Can't Leave Behind, U2 have never made the same record twice. In 2023, they proved it again. The Sphere residency in Las Vegas – 40 sold-out shows, more than $200 million grossed, the most technologically extraordinary concert venue ever built. Unmistakably, U2 were not finished.

Packed with photographs and discographies, this book tells their full story, 50 years on from that school noticeboard in Dublin.