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Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is an English-Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2. [1] Born in Oxfordshire, England, he lived in County Dublin , Ireland after his family moved to Malahide in 1965, when he was five years old.
4 September: Adam Clayton marries Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho, a Brazilian supermodel, in a ceremony in Dublin. [159] 17 October: A song titled "Ordinary Love" is revealed to be written specifically for the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. [160] Subscribers of the band's official website are able to hear it first. [161]
In March 1978, the group changed their name to "U2", [12] selecting it from a list of six options suggested by Steve Averill, a punk rock musician with the Radiators from Space and a family friend of Clayton. The band chose U2 for its open-ended interpretations, visual strength on posters, and because it was the name that they disliked the ...
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We never imagined that Bruce Willis and U2 bassist Adam Clayton would ever have anything in common. But it turns out they do: this stunning co-op on Manhattan's exclusive Central Park West. The ...
U2 was founded on 25 September 1976 in Mullen's kitchen in Artane. [2] Attending the first meeting were Mullen, Paul "Bono" Hewson, David "The Edge" Evans and his brother Dik, Adam Clayton, and Mullen's friends Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin. Mullen later described it as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and ...
Bono announced from the stage "Wim Wenders in the house!" He then dedicated the song to Wim and his wife Donata, both in attendance. It was an acoustic version with just Bono and Edge performing. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)" was not played during the 2005-2006 Vertigo Tour, but U2 revived it on the 2009-2011 U2 360° Tour.
"Sweetest Thing" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It was originally released as a B-side on the "Where the Streets Have No Name" single in 1987.The song was later re-recorded and re-released as a single in October 1998 for the band's compilation album The Best of 1980–1990.