Thirty Years of U2

U2 Rocks the World Thirty years since emerging from Dublin, the Irish rockers return with No Line on the Horizon, their first release in almost five years
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Of his first meeting with Bono, drummer Mullen said, "he was meant to play the guitar, but he couldn't play very well, so he started to sing. He couldn't do that either. But he was such a charismatic character that he was in the band as soon as he arrived."

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