Having been eased out of high school earlier in the year, Adam Clayton found himself free to spend the following months acting as manager for the fledgling U2, for whom he also served as bassist. Music had been a passion for Adam since discovering rock'n'roll in the mid-seventies, and he was whole-heartedly and optimistically committed to his band and his vision, an "undeniable belief" as The Edge later remembered. Although Paul McGuinness had assumed official managerial duties back in May, here was Adam hawking U2's second demo tape to anyone who would listen. Adam's defiant acts and attitudes in his schoolboy days are legendary, and serve preparatory notice of his extreme sense of bluff -- if you can talk the talk, you can arrange to walk the walk at the first available oppo ..[Full version]