This weekend, long-time rock critic for the Boston Globe, Steve Morse, wrote an *awesome* piece for the Boston Sunday Globe magazine. Here’s some of the U2-related tidbits from the article:

“And when I retired from the Globe last year, Bono showed up at my going-away party at J.J. Foley’s on Kingston Street downtown, just hours after U2 played the TD Banknorth Garden.” (Note: Bono did mention Morse during the 12/5 show and his retirement).

“I had covered U2 from the time they played the Paradise. Not every review was favorable (the night of my retirement bash, Bono told the crowd that I wasn’t afraid to “kick them in the arse” once in a while), but I always called a show like I saw it. The band’s Fleet-Center show in 2001 didn’t sustain its usual peaks, and Bono wasn’t attacking the songs. So I wrote that. Sometimes an artist might not talk to you for a few years after a bad review, but my paycheck didn’t come from the record industry. It came from the Boston Globe, and I always cherished that independence.”