Timeline of U2
This is a timeline of the history of rock band U2:
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
pre 1980
13 March 1960: Adam Clayton is born in Chinnor, Oxfordshire.
10 May 1960: Paul David Hewson (Bono) is born in Dublin.
8 August 1961: David Howell Evans (The Edge) is born in East London.
31 October 1961: Larry Mullen, Jr. is born in Artane, Dublin.
September 1974: Bono's mother Iris Hewson dies of a brain aneurysm in Dublin four days after collapsing at her father's funeral.
Autumn: Paul Hewson and his neighbourhood friends form the "Lypton Village" in which they made their own language, dressed differently, and put on art installation. The group gives Paul the nickname Bono after a Dublin hearing aid store.
25 September 1976: The band forms in Dublin after Mullen posts a notice on the Mount Temple Comprehensive School notice board in search of musicians for a new band. Mullen was on drums, Bono on lead vocals, The Edge and his older brother Dik on guitar, Adam Clayton, a friend of the Evans brothers on bass guitar, and initially Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin, two other friends of Mullen. Martin did not return after the first practice, and McCormick left the group within a few weeks.
