U2 are embarrassing and have a shit name, says Bono
completemusicupdate.comU2 are embarrassing and have a shit name. Not my words, people. Not this time, anyway. These are the words of U2 frontman Bono Vox.
In fact, he says he finds his band’s music so grating that he turns the radio off if any of it comes on.The band’s name, of course, is shared with an American spy plane.
Although the band apparently just picked it off a list of possible names provided to them by a friend, rather than them giving it a huge amount of thought.“I still don’t [like the name]”, Bono tells The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast. “I really don’t.
But I was late into some kind of dyslexia. I didn’t realise that The Beatles was a bad pun either. In our head it was like the spy plane, U-boat, it was futuristic – as it turned out to imply this kind of acquiescence, no I don’t like that name.
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