Later that year, the band's full-length debut, Boy, was released. Shortly afterward, they began to play in England, but they failed to gain much attention away from home.nnU2 scored one more chart-topping single, "Another Day," in early 1980 before Island Records offered the group a contract. The EP was available only in Ireland, where it topped the national charts. In the fall of 1979, U2 released their debut EP, U2 Three. Even with a powerful manager in their corner, the band had trouble making much headway, and failed an audition with CBS Records at the end of the year. By the end of the year, the Stranglers' manager, Paul McGuinness, had seen U2 play and offered to manage them. Shortly afterward, Dick Evans left the band to form the Virgin Prunes, and the group changed names once again, this time adopting the moniker of U2.nnU2's first big break arrived in 1978, during the members' final year of high school, when they won a talent contest sponsored by Guinness. They then changed their name to the Hype in 1977. Bono (born Paul Hewson, vocals), the Edge (born David Evans, Augguitar, keyboards, vocals), Adam Clayton (born Mabass), and Dick Evans responded to the ad, and the teenagers came together as a Beatles and Stones cover band called the Feedback. (born Octodrums), posted a notice on a high school bulletin board asking for fellow musicians to form a band. By performing such a successful reinvention, the band confirmed its status as one of the most popular groups in rock history, in addition to earning additional critical respect.nnWith its textured guitars, the band's sound was undeniably indebted to post-punk, so it's slightly ironic that U2 formed in 1976, before punk had even reached their hometown of Dublin, Ireland.
Unlike many of their contemporaries, they were able to sustain such popularity in the '90s by reinventing themselves as a postmodern, self-consciously ironic, dance-inflected pop/rock act, owing equally to the experimentalism of late-'70s Bowie and '90s electronic dance and techno. By 1987, U2's following had grown large enough to propel them to the level of international superstardom with the release of The Joshua Tree. It's no accident that footage of Bono parading with a white flag with "Sunday Bloody Sunday" blaring in the background became the defining moment of U2's early career - there rarely was a band that believed so deeply in rock's potential for revolution as U2, and there rarely was a band whose members didn't care if they appeared foolish in the process.nn During the course of the early '80s, the group quickly built up a dedicated following through constant touring and a string of acclaimed records. And their lead singer, Bono, was a frontman with a knack of grand gestures that played better in stadiums than small clubs. and Adam Clayton played the songs as driving hard rock, giving the band a forceful, powerful edge that was designed for arenas. Though the Edge's style wasn't conventional, the rhythm section of Larry Mullen, Jr. The Edge provided the group with a signature sound by creating sweeping sonic landscapes with his heavily processed, echoed guitars. Through a combination of zealous righteousness and post-punk experimentalism, U2 became one of the most popular rock u0026 roll bands in the world - equally known for their sweeping sound as for their grandiose statements about politics and religion.
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