

Bassist Adam Clayton heeft in een interview met Le Figaro al iets losgelaten over wanneer we het album kunnen verwachten. Dit kwam naar voren in een radio-interview. I still don’t really like the name.” He added, “I do think U2 pushes out the boat on embarrassment quite a lot, and maybe that’s the place to be as an artist-you know, right at the edge of your level of embarrassment. Fans van U2 opgelet De band werkt aan een nieuw album en is van plan op wereldtour te gaan in 2023. It was futuristic…It turned out to imply this kind of acquiescence-no, I don’t like that name. “In our head, it was like the spy plane, U-boat. “I didn’t realize that The Beatles was a bad pun, either,” he said. Ultimately, their first manager Paul McGuinness convinced the singer to keep it, calling it “great” and insisting that it would “look good on a t-shirt, a letter and a number.” But, apparently, the name still hasn’t grown on him. Genuine, most of the other ones make me cringe a little bit,” he said, admitting that he’s “probably proudest” of the song “Vertigo.”Īnd it’s not just the tracklist that he regrets, Bono said he was also seriously against the band’s name when they first came up with it. “The one that I can listen to the most is ‘Miss Sarajevo’ with Luciano Pavarotti.


“I’m just so embarrassed.” But he added that there’s still some salvageable hits within their extensive discography. “I’ve been in the car when one of our songs has come on the radio and I’ve been the color of, as we say in Dublin, scarlet,” he said. While U2 has been one of the biggest bands in the world for decades, its lead singer confessed during an interview on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast that he finds most of their music mortifying. Bono recently revealed that Apple forcing U2’s album Songs of Innocence on every iPhone user in the world might have actually been more painful for him than it was for listeners.
