Subscribers Special. 'U2 Go POP'. Snapshots and soundbites from the winter of 1997, more online Propaganda.

In our first extract from the newly published 'U2, The Best of Propaganda', Neil McCormick trails U2 and Oasis in San Francisco.

When 'the world's greatest band and the world's next best band' - Noel Gallagher's words - met up in San ...