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Paul McGuinness (born 17 June 1951) is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin, Ireland, which managed U2 from the start of their successful career until 2013. He is the former manager of U2, and current manager of PJ Harvey and The Rapture. He also previously managed Paddy Casey. ==Personal life== McGuinness was born in Rinteln near Hanover, Germany, in a British Army hospital. His father, Philip McGuinness, a Liverpudlian, was serving there with the RAF. His mother Sheila McGuinness née Lyne, was a schoolteacher from Lauragh, County Kerry, Ireland. There were three children in the family: Paul, Niall and Katy. McGuinness was sent to an elite boarding school in Ireland in 1961, Clongowes Wood College, run by the Jesuits. He then went on to Trinity College in Dublin where he directed plays and edited the magazine T.C.D. Miscellany, but left without completing his degree. Before becoming involved with U2, he worked as a film technician on productions such as John Boorman's Zardoz.〔http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1568654/u2-manager-paul-mcguinness-on-mark-fisher-he-turned-everyones-wild-ideas〕 For a time, he also managed folk-rock group Spud. He was nicknamed by The Prunes as "The Goose", according to Bono in the book ''U2 by U2''. Bono said: "The Prunes came up with a name for Paul. He was The Goose." McGuinness married Kathy Gilfillan in 1977. They met whilst he was studying in Trinity. Kathy Gilfillan is director of The Lilliput Press Limited McGuinness's brother, Niall died of a heart attack in 1993. His sister Katy is a writer and lives with her family in Monkstown, Co. Dublin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul McGuinness」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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