U2 band music deeply “80s, bringing to the fore a new life and changing their style from album to album. The four boys have adopted a non-conformist style, addressing topics songs whose text attack more or less taboo at that time, rooted in the Bible and to advocate for an end to violence in Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as those worldwide. In the foreground out of Bono”s charismatic figure, who emerged as leader since their first meeting and also the creator of lyrics which mentioned a little higher.
U2 band music deeply ’80s, bringing to the fore a new life and changing their style from album to album. The four boys have adopted a non-conformist style, addressing topics songs whose text attack more or less taboo at that time, rooted in the Bible and to advocate for an end to violence in Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as those worldwide. In the foreground out of Bono’s charismatic figure, who emerged as leader since their first meeting and also the creator of lyrics which mentioned a little higher.
U2 was formed in 1978 after Larry Mullen put a notice on the school notice board Dublin’s Temple Mount in seeking musicians for a band. Adam Clayton discovered rock ‘n’ roll in 13 years when he bought his first acoustic guitar and then he convinced her parents to buy a bass guitar. ”I just liked the sound. Deep, powerful and satisfying. “From the beginning U2 came out thanks to their passion for music. ”We were a band before we even started to sing”, so Bono described the atmosphere in the first interviews. The Edge remembers reading music magazines NME and Sounds every week and just found the “wild child Paul Hewson.”
The four teenagers who were originally called Feedback, repeated in Larry’s kitchen in Dublin with Bono at voice, guitar, The Edge and Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen providing bass and drum rhythms. Inspired by punk, but at the same time isolated from the power of the Irish Sea separates them, Feedback and The Hype turned into U2 then and soon created a local reputation based on the passion with which they carry out benefits live. ”I think an important moment is when I saw the show at The Jam on Top Of The Pops” Edge recalls. ”I realized that was not a problem if you did not know how to sing … because then the music was more about power than about skills and post fantastic musician.”After a short period that had been managed by Adam, they have met with Paul McGuinness, but EP release of “U23″ in 1979 was not as expected. They had to wait until next year to sign a contract with Island Records for a long period. ”I was impressed with, talent and ambition of these four musicians and yet fail to sign a contract with a label,” McGuinness recalls. ”Absolutely everyone refused to U2 until, finally we found the place at Island Records.”
U2’s first single, “Tick-Tock 11 O’Clock” was launched in May 1980. ”Boy”, their debut album followed five months later – being promoted by another single, “I Will Follow”, then the album “October” and a year later in May 1983, have finally managed a first number 1 in Britain, thanks to material entitled “War”, all three albums were produced by Steve Lillywhite.album “War” included the hits “New Year’s Day” (with a video filmed at temperatures well below zero in Sweden) and “Two Hearts Beat As One”. Live album “Under A Blood Red Sky” launched in November the same year he managed to enter the U.S. Top 30. It was also the end of a chapter in the life of the band and the beginning of a quarter century of collaborations with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. ”The Unforgettable Fire” recorded in the ballroom of Slane Castle in Ireland, launched one of the most successful hits U2, “Pride (In The Name of Love)” .. and brought with him many more experiments.”When we launched” The Unforgettable Fire “in the United States a lot of controversy arose,” Bono recalls. ”People think we are the future of rock ‘n’ roll and said” what the hell you want to make the album that made hippie Eno? “. ”We owe them a lot of Eno and Lanois have given that resembled what is U2, which is really important for us.” Three years before the band played in the opening festival of Thin Lizzy at Slane. 17 years later, renowned as the best live rock band, U2 are returning for two sold out concerts that will later be released on DVD “Go Home”.
In the 80 tour of nine months the occasion of the launch album “The Unforgettable Fire” included 54 concerts in the United States and led to a memorable show band at Live Aid in 1985. ”By the middle of the song Bad, Bono has gone trying to convince some girls to dance with him,” recalls Larry. ”We felt like forever missed. I was quite embarrassed anyway and when he and Bono disappeared into the crowd, panic had set already among us. “At that time not realized, but that emergence would attract a new audience on their side. Then another two years passed until the band released the album “The Joshua Tree” in 1987, a material whose original title was “The Two Americas”. If very long tournaments in the United States had done that U2 to be hypnotized by America, it would return them the compliment – singles “With Or Without You” and sprinkled with rhythms gosspel song, “I Found What I’m Still Haven’t Looking For “has reached the first position of the top American.
“The Joshua Tree” has sold over 20 million copies and Grammy in 1987 the band won “Best Album Of The Year” and “Best Benefit Live Rock “, the first in a long string of Grammy-band obtained during his career. In 2007 a remastered version of the album was released to mark 20 years since the initial launch, and in their book “U2byU2″ band spoke in detail about how the pieces were created from this material. When Time magazine put U2 on the cover with the title “The hottest ticket for rock music” was only the fourth time the band reached the cover of prestigious magazines – predecessors were The Beatles, The Band and The Who.A year later, in 1988 U2 were the first position of the top singles in the UK and released in cinemas, concert film “Rattle & Hum ‘which this band’s U.S. tour in 1987, occasioned by the album” The Joshua Tree “. Double album “Rattle and Hum” included the single reached number one, “Desire” and collaboration with BB King, “When Love Comes To Town ‘. The group ended the tour Lovetown Tour 1989 with a series of shows in late December held at The Point Depot in Dublin, where Bono said that … ”It was the end of a chapter from U2 … which meant must go …. and dream again.”
They did, starting at Hansa Studios in Berlin with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and putting his head in Head album “Achtung Baby” music band that turned into a new direction. U2 and production team had heated discussions about the new direction but after these disagreements resulted one of the most successful albums of all time. As Daniel Lanois said, “If you manage to gather them all four in the same room with instruments in hand, the results will not delay to appear. That you very much my job – I who have to convince to go all in the same room and sing “. With songs like “The Fly”, “Mysterious Ways” and “One”, U2 began the ’90s with a new sound, a new reputation on the dance floor and some of the most successful hits them.
was followed Zoo Tour that began in Florida on February 29, 1992 and toured the world twice in almost two years before ending in Japan on December 10, 1993.”Achtung Baby” album proved to be a spectacular and designer Willie Williams wanted to reinvent the concept of rock tour with a video wall of 40 meters that transmitted live news 24 hours of 24 images from the shopping channel and postmodern slogans to emphasize the irony. (”EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG). Among the guests of the tournament there were Lou Reed, Salman Rushdie (in hiding after publishing the book“The Satanic Verseturile”) and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus of Abba who sang the hit “Dancing Queen” with the band . Still can not imagine everything showed? Well, it showed. Unfolding after the U.S. presidential elections in 1992, Bono interrupted the pieces to make phone calls to Staël still run by Bush White House. Then failed to speak with the president – no one imagine that in a few years presidents and politicians will have to answer his telephone calls without hesitation – but also by the ZOO TV, Bono called in Sarajevo, a ground area of conflict armed at the time, heard the voice of a city under siege, thanks to legendary journalist Bill Carter.
In mid tuner European Zoo, the band recorded an entire album, experimentalul “Zooropa” (1993) that included Johnny Cash’s peerless inerpretarea of song “The Wanderer. Sydney concert was later remastered and included DVD ‘Zoo TV Live From Sydney’.link with Sarajevo inspired one of the songs on “Passengers: Original Soundtracks Volume I”, the most experimental album on which he collaborated band – of course with Brian Eno as a executive producer.The song “Miss Sarajevo” and has contributed and Luciano Pavarotti. Complementing this period impestuoasa album “Pop” in 1997, powerful lyrics mixed with dance beats. ”The themes are love, desire and confidence crisis,” said Edge. ”Ordinary things”. The tour that followed, POPMART – which transformed the band U2 first played in Sarajevo after the Bosnian war – was another visual spectacle imagined by Willie Williams, who introduced “Mofo” and “Discotheque” a new generation of fans.
four years have passed since then until the next album, but well worth the wait: “All That You Can not Leave Behind” included songs which won the Grammy for “Best Song of the Year” both in 2001, and in 2002 – “Beautiful Day” and “Walk On”. The only time in music history when something happened. Launched in 2000, “All That You Can not Leave Behind”, won seven Grammys and has sold more than ten million exmplare. ”I think it was a good idea to do an album that sounds U2 again,” says Paul McGuinness. It reached number 1 in 32 countries.album was followed by Elevation tour that included 113 concerts, this time focusing on all production parts. ”It was really a minimalist,” says Edge. ”But compared to POP, anything else would mean a return to simplicity.” The concept was one that appealed to Larry: “Use your heart as a decor that brings in crowds, and how that heart is filled with people was fantastic. It was as if I had a club concert in an arena “.
”How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” (2004) was “a material that focuses on guitars,” said Adam. ”" Vertigo, Love and Peace, City of Blinding Lights, All Because of You, is all rock. Many of them remember our early years, so it seems that every year we have gathered a bit, we have developed, I grew up and here we are now. “Joined with old and new producers – Steve Lillywhite, Chris Thomas, Flood, Jacknife Lee, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Nellee Hooper and Carl Glanville – the eleventh studio album by U2 was launched in November 2004 and debuting in 25 countries. single “Vertigo” won three Grammys, including one for “Best Rock Song.”
Vertigo tour that followed was the most profitable of year and confirmed his album along with those of U2 in a position of “the greatest rock’n'roll band in the world”. In 2005 U2 played to 3.2 million people. In March Bruce Springsteen introduced Rock’n'Roll Hall of Fame band, describing them as “holders of idntre most beautiful sonic architecture in the world of rock’n'roll.” Then came Live 8 which opened with those of U2 performing ” Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band “with Paul McCartney. ceremony Grammy in 2006, U2 won five awards, including one for Album of the Year for” How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb “. These five awards have raised the number of Grammy-sites owned The band at 22, more than any other band. When you have spent a month recording at Abbey Road Studios in London in 2006, U2 collaborated with Green Day on the cover of the song “The Saints Are Coming” those of The Skids. Benefits from this record were donated to Music Rising Foundation founded by The Edge, trying to help rebuild the musical culture in New Orleans, replacing instruments lost in Hurricane Katrina.
band has released three collections Best Of ‘The Best of 1980 – 1990 ‘,’ The Best of 1990-2000 ‘, and’ U218 Singles’ in 2006 which included the new song “Windows In The Skies”.Five years after the release of “How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb”, in March 2009 band has released “No Line On The Horizon”. The twelfth studio album was written and recorded in Fez (Morocco), Dublin (Ireland), New York and Olympic Studios in London. Her album with the band back on Brian Eno and Danny Lanois and Steve Lillywhite productaorul.
first single from the new album is called “Get On Your Boots”.
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