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DJ: Was God Part II specifically written to get back at Goldman?
Bono:Golddigger?
DJ: Golddigger!
Bono: Albert Golddigger. You're talking about God Part II, the song on Rattle and Hum. DJ: that's the one
Bono: the soundtrack . . . of the movie . . . of the book
Adam: of the film of the video of Rattle and Hum
Bono: okay, it's on the way.
Edge: the book of the making of . . .
Larry: and the stamp
(lots of laughter)
DJ: the Rattle and Hum underwear
Bono: I want a Rattle and Hum stamp!
(laughter)
DJ: was it specifically written, or was it thrown in as an afterthought?
Bono: oh, it was very specific. Um
Larry: pacific
Bono: what does pacific mean? I um think that you know that John Lennon is somebody that I really respected, not necessarily looked up to. . .or looked down, or even looked sideways at, he's just a great songwriter that inspired me and I really despise Albert Golddigger's attempt to pick a fight with a dead man. And I attempted to point out that the contradictions of John Lennon's life and times . . You know, the fact that he was crippled inside, as he said himself, does not negate his brilliance as a musician. We're all full of contradictions; he was just brave enough to own up to them in his songs and we certainly didn't need to read a book to find out about them. But the more dangerous thing about Albert Goldman's books on Lenny Bruce, on Elvis Presley, and on John Lennon - is he is really attempting to write off the culture from which they came. He is a New York intellectual who is attempting to write off Elvis Presley as the idiant, the idiot-savant actually, and John Lennon as a just a very screwed up guy; we knew these things.
DJ: and he knew it!
Bono: You know, he attempted to write off a culture that is rock and roll, and rock and roll is an expression for people like meself who aren't university educated and the like and I really objected to it. And God Part II is my statement on that.