The Pope put on Bono’s trademark wrap-around sunglasses during their meeting.ĭuring the early 1990s, Adam Clayton dated British supermodel Naomi Campbell. In 1999 when Bono met with Pope John Paul II to discuss Third World debt. U2 appeared on the 200th episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, “Trash of the Titans”, in which Homer Simpson disrupted the band on stage during a PopMart concert. King, Tina Turner, Ronnie Wood, Jah Wobble, Jay-Z, and Rihanna.Īdam Clayton made international headlines in August 1989 when he was arrested in Dublin for carrying a small amount of marijuana.īono and the Edge wrote the song “She’s a Mystery to Me” for Roy Orbison, which was featured on his 1989 album Mystery Girl. The Edge has also recorded with such artists as Johnny Cash, B. In 1987, U2 became only the fourth rock band to be featured on the cover of Time magazine, (following The Beatles, The Band and The Who). The Joshua Tree became the fastest-selling album in British chart history, and topped the Billboard 200 in the United States for nine consecutive weeks. In 2005 Bono and his wife, Ali, launch the EDUN clothing line. co-wrote and produced a song for the Republic of Ireland national football team in time for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, called “Put ‘Em Under Pressure”, which topped the Irish charts. U2 were once known as Feedback and later as The Hype. U2’s performance in front of 72,000 fans in the stadium in an event that had a worldwide television audience of two billion people was a pivotal point in the band’s career.
The group’s first release, was an Ireland-only EP entitled Three, was released in September 1979.ĭuring U2’s first dates outside Ireland, they played a gig at the Islington’s Hope and anchor to a crowd of only 9 people. The prize consisted of £500 and studio time to record a demo which would be heard by CBS Ireland. On Saint Patrick’s Day in 1978, U2 won a talent show in Limerick. They have won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other band.
The Edge created the theme song for Season 1 and 2 of the animated television series The Batman. U2 have released 13 studio albums and are one of the world’s best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 170 million records worldwide.Īs a young teen in Dublin, the artist formerly known as Paul Hewson was a member of the street gang called ‘Lypton Village.’ His buddies started calling him Bono Vox after the neighborhood hearing-aid store Bonavox (latin for ‘good voice’). Here’s hoping that the next three years will serve as a celebration of Bono’s legacy and that the band will be able to make the most of its remaining time together before its frontman’s tragic end.Larry Mullen, Jr., then a 14-year-old student at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, posted a note on the school’s notice board in search of musicians for a new band-six people responded. It’s clear that the members of U2, as well as music fans all over the world, are absolutely gutted by the news of Bono getting conked to death by a coconut in 2021. Perhaps the most moving tribute of all came from Bono’s fellow band members, who shared their grief over his eventual death through the official U2 Twitter account: “But I’ve still got three years to keep making and performing the music I love before a coconut ultimately bashes my brain in, and I intend to make every last minute count.”įollowing the press conference, fans and fellow musicians took to Twitter to pay tribute to Bono, expressing sorrow and disbelief over the iconic singer’s forthcoming death via tropical fruit-induced blunt-force trauma. “Playing in this band these past 42 years has been the greatest joy of my life, and while all good things must come to an end, getting clobbered to death by a coconut exactly three years to this day is not exactly the end I was hoping for,” said an emotional Bono, adding that he always imagined he would die in a rocket ship explosion of sorts.