U2 - With or Without You

U2 are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. The band consists of Bono (vocals and guitar), The Edge (guitar, keyboards, and vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar) and Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums and percussion).




The band formed in Dublin on September 25, 1976. Larry Mullen, Jr., 14, posted a notice in his high school bulletin board (the Temple Mount of School) seeking musicians for a new band. Seven teenagers attended the first practice in the kitchen of Mullen. It is, as Mullen, "" The Larry Mullen Band "for about ten minutes, then walked Bono and flew at every opportunity I had to be in the position." The group released Mullen on drums, Paul Hewson (Bono) on lead singer, Dave Evans (The Edge) and his brother Dik Evans on guitar, Adam Clayton, a friend of the brothers Evans on bass, and initially Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin, two other friends of Mullen. Soon after, the group settled on the name of "Feedback", because it is one of the few technical terms they knew. Martin did not return after the first practice, and McCormick left the group in a couple of weeks. Most of the group's material initially consisted of cover versions, which said the band was not his strength. The original material of the band did write demonstrated a sound influenced by their post-punk peers.

In March 1977, the band changed its name to "The Hype". Dik Evans, who was older and by this time in college, is becoming the odd man. The rest of the band leans toward the idea of a four-piece sets and was "eliminated" in March 1978. During a farewell concert in the Presbyterian Church in the Hall of Howth, which included The game includes Hype, Dik ceremoniously walked offstage. The remaining four members of the band ended the concert playing original material as "U2." Steve Averill, a punk rock musician and friend of the family of Clayton, had proposed six possible names from which the band chose "U2" for its ambiguity and open-ended interpretations, and that was the name that disliked the least.

On Saint Patrick's Day in 1978, U2 won a talent show in Limerick, Ireland. The award consisted of 500 pounds and funding to record a demo, which was an important milestone and affirmation of the fledgling band. The band recorded its first demo in Keystone Studios, in Harcourt Street, Dublin in April 1978. In May, Paul McGuinness, who had been introduced to the band Hot Press journalist Bill Graham, according to the manager of U2. U2 of the first version, an Ireland-only EP entitled Three, was released in September 1979 and was the Irish band from the first table success. In December 1979, U2 performed in London for his first shows outside of Ireland, although it has not been able to get much attention from the public or critics. In February 1980, their second single "Another Day" was launched on CBS, but again only for the Irish.