1979-12-15
Windsor Castle, London, England
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Ahead of the show tonight Slattery picks the band up and shoots some photos at the apartment they are staying at in Collingham Gardens, South Kensington, an apartment owned by a wealthy acquaintance of Paul McGuinness. The band are sharing rooms, with Bono and Larry in one, and The Edge and Adam in the other.
“They were fucking penniless,” Slattery recalled in Uncut Magazine. “They were staying in this flat McGuinness knew in South Kensington, and I just said ‘Fuck it’. I picked them up the day after the Dingwalls gig, I had an old Mini van at the time. I did some shots at this flat, then I carted them down to the riverside in Chiswick and did another little session. And I was living at this house in Sunbury On Thames so I took them over there and gave them tea and bacon sarnies. Fed them up a bit. Nobody asked me to do the pictures, I just thought: fuck it, I want to do them – Bono’s got charisma and I like him.”
That night U2 are headlining a show at Windsor Castle. They have an opening act, but it is unknown who, as the band is labeled as simply “Support” in the ad. Admission is a low 50p to see the band.
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