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The gig was halted and the band convened underneath the stage.

It was The Edge who spoke on the phone to Zeitels, who is Professor of Laryngeal Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Centre for Laryngeal Surgery and Voice Rehabilitation and whose clients include everyone from Adele to Julie Andrews. Zeitels was adamant that the gig could not go ahead.

Bono speaks of feeling embarrassed and emasculated, likening himself to Samson with his hair cut off: “The strong man … with no strength.” Bono says he has performed with a sore throat before but this was different. “It moved so quickly from singing well to not being able to sing at all — that was the shock,” he says. Bono says he could tell that the people around him were contemplating that it was all over for U2. But he says he knew he hadn’t broken anything, he knew