内容摘要：Both his professional and personal life descended into disarray - in just 12 months an entire collection was stolen from his studio and his marriage broke down.

Both his professional and personal life descended into disarray - in just 12 months an entire collection was stolen from his studio and his marriage broke down.

"We've all had it go since but in 1982, aged 21, that man there decided that he had enough of the music business with its inflamed egos and pumped up personality."I asked him, 'Will you make an exception for me?'"

Presumably, the answer was yes.Backstage, they talk about their beginnings in Dublin's punk scene and how it gave four untrained, untested musicians permission to pursue their dreams."We don't come from a tradition of great songwriters," says Mullen Jr. "We didn't have any of those blues chops, so we were starting from scratch, all of us."

"A lot of early influences for us were bands like The Ramones, who were doing these three-minute pop songs, and Patti Smith, who was a bit more poetic, and had a bit more of a social conscience," says bassist Adam Clayton."We knew that the bar was high, but we were just getting in at the bottom level."

"Punk rock was like year zero for us," picks up Bono.

"We didn't really want to know, or be beholden to, the past. So we started with a blank page, really, which was just as well because we couldn't play anyone else's songs. We just started writing our own."Firefighters spent several hours tackling a large grass fire that broke out in forestry in south Wales.

Crews, with up to eight teams involved, were called to Pontycymer, Bridgend county, at 15:00 BST on Saturday afternoon.Police closed Bridgend Road in both directions, with diversions in place, and announced it would remain shut into Saturday night.

On Sunday morning, firefighters returned to extinguish lingering small fires and reinspect the area.High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole.