Vocalist says he was three years old when he first heard the music of this group – and since then he was aware that life is good
Just as it influenced and continues to influence several other artists, the U2 He also had a starting point marked by a band that served as great inspiration. According to the vocalist Bonothis watershed was still in childhood – and that’s when he heard Beatles for the first time.
On the U2 official website itself, the singer reported how this epiphany happened. At the time, he was just a little boy living in the north of Dublin, Ireland.
“I was three years old and I was in the backyard of Cedarwood Road, number 10. I associate the song (from the Beatles) to the smell of the newly cut grass while I was lying on my back on the damp lawn after my father cut the grass.”
The vocalist continues:
“Music on the radio looked like a life force. As if for the first time I was aware that I was alive and that being alive was a very, very good idea.”
Bono, U2 and the influence of the Beatles
Bono considers that the influence of the Beatles extrapolated childhood and was decisive in various stages of U2, from formation to aesthetic, composition and recording choices.
The configuration itself with four U2 members would have been a straightforward unfolding what enchanted him in the Liverpool quartet, as well as the creative possibilities in the studio, something the Beatles explored a lot in their mature phase.
About this, Bono declared the Andrea Mitchellfrom the television network Msnbcwho continues to be inspired by Liverpool’s boys.
“I still see (the Beatles) as models of what can be achieved when four people enter a room and start experimenting.”
And concludes, about the pioneering of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and company:
“If you come from a Dublin or Liverpool neighborhood to the United States and discover the roots of Soul Music, Blues and other things, it may or may not influence you, but surely opens your eyes and ears. And they were the first to do that.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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