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Clayton wanted something ambiguous Rapid suggested U2 because there was a U2 spy plane, a U2 submarine, a U2 battery made by Eveready, as well as the obvious 'you, too' and 'you two.' Clayton, acting as band manager, sought advice from all the music industry sources he knew, including Steve Rapid, a singer for the local band the Radiators, who suggested that they change their name. After playing mainly cover tunes for a few shows in small local venues, Dik Evans left the band to form the Virgin Prunes, and the band changed its name to the Hype. U2 began their musical odyssey as Feedback. David 'The Edge' Evans, a guitarist who could play, Adam Clayton, a bassist who 'just looked great and used all the right words, like gig,' Mullen on drums, and second guitarist Dick 'Dik' Evans, The Edge's older brother, made up the rest of the band. But, he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band as soon as he arrived.' That fellow was Paul Hewson, who later adopted the name Bono Vox (Latin for 'good voice,' which Hewson appropriated from a billboard advertisement for a hearing aid retailer). Mullen told Jay Cocks of Time that the original band consisted of one fellow who 'meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. Of the several students that came to his house to audition for the rock band, Mullen noted that, although some could play, technical merit wasn't the decisive factor. U2 started off humbly enough as a Dublin, Ireland, school boy band formed in response to an ad placed on the Mount Temple High School notice board by Larry Mullen, Jr.

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Bono Vox, who by this time had become simply Bono, told Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times, 'We felt we were being made a cartoon of 'the good guys of rock and so forth' so we decided to make some cartoons of our own and send them out as disinformation.' U2 forged ahead to reach rock icon status with multiplatinum albums including Rattle and Hum, War, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. In 1984, U2 lead singer Bono told Jim Miller in Newsweek, 'The message, if there is a message in our music, is the hope that it communicates.' Nearly ten years later, after being called everything from 'pompous and self-righteous social crusaders' to 'sincere and involved political activists,' U2 decided it was time to step out of the identities the world had superimposed on them.

Addresses: Record company-Interscope Records, 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90404, website. Members include Bono (originally Bono Vox born Paul Hewson on May 10, 1960), vocals Adam Clayton (born on March 13, 1960), bass The Edge (born David Evans on August 8, 1961), guitar Dick 'Dik' Evans (left group, 1976), guitar Larry Mullen, Jr. If you would like to share U2 lyrics with other users of this site, please see the bottom of this page on how to submit U2 lyrics.

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