In 1976, then 14-year-old Larry Mullen scrawled “Drummer seeks musician to form band” on a note and pinned it to the bulletin board at Dublin’s Mount Temple Comprehensive School…
They’ve been together for 47 years – but this year U2 will be performing without founding member and drummer Larry Mullen (61)!
The Irish rock band has on the verge of Super Bowls announced a series of live shows in Las Vegas. There are to be mega shows over up to six weekends in a new, spherical multimedia hall in the US gambling metropolis.
And that has never happened before: The drummer Larry Mullen, who is suffering from health problems, is represented at the concerts by the Dutch drummer Bram van den Berg. Mullen will have surgery this year and will not be able to play as a result. from one time out is the talk. In a report by the “ Washington Post“It was said in November that the drummer had problems with his neck and elbows, which needed surgery.
Musically and in terms of stage technology, the shows should be based on the successful album “Achtung Baby” and the associated tour “Zoo TV”. Singer Bono (62) in a radio interview with the Irish broadcaster RTÉ: “More gigantic than anything Las Vegas has ever seen.”
The event arena MSG Sphere will be the largest spherical structure in the world with a height of 102.41 meters and a width of 157.28 meters. It is planned that the hall will have a 160,000 square meter display area that will completely surround the audience.
Guitarist “The Edge”: “We all thought about it and decided that we would be crazy not to accept the invitation.”
With “Achtung Baby” U2 heralded a creative turnaround in the early 1990s and initially irritated many fans of the old hits, but gained new followers. The album sold more than 13 million copies. The most well-known songs include “One”, “Mysterious Ways” and “The Fly”.
According to the Washington Post, the band has only failed to perform with all four members on stage twice: in 1993, when Adam Clayton (62) missed a performance in Australia due to health reasons, and in 1978 after Mullen broke his foot in a motorcycle accident . (jbr)
And boom!!! U2 guitarist “The Edge” takes off live!
