In the Name of Love for Bono: 60 Fascinating Facts About the U2 Singer
found each other when the first three responded to a notice Mullen posted at Mount Temple Comprehensive School looking for musicians to make a band. They were called Feedback for a few months, and then The Hype. Dik joinedin 1978, after which the foursome rechristened themselves U2—which is a type of American spy plane.at Mount Temple, in 1976. She was in the same class as The Edge, a year behind him.10.
23. Bob Hewson, who died in 2001, traveled to the United States for the first time in the mid-'80s, and was introduced to a packed concert arena in Texas, courtesy of his son."Yeah, I think he was proud in some ways," Bono told Assayas.24. Asked what U2 had argued about the most over the years, Bono couldn't name one thing."I might think, if I'm honest, there have been periods of time when I have found each member of the band incredibly frustrating...
31. In 2007, Bono was made a KBE, an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II, for music and his humanitarian work.32. France doubled down in 2013, making Bono a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters. over his administration's relief efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa, and the singer was a speaker at the 54th Annual National Prayer Breakfast in 2006.34.
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