
	U2 The boys of U2 met at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin where Larry Mullen, then 14, posted a notice on the school bulletin board in 1976 to recruit people for a band. Paul Hewson, 16, showed up for a jam session in Mullen's kitchen, along with fellow Mount Temple students David Evans and Adam Clayton. Around this time, a friend gave Paul Hewson the nickname Bono after a Dublin hearing-aid store called Bonavox, which happened to be pidgin Latin for "good voice." Evans played guitar and also gained a nickname, the Edge, while Clayton played bass and Mullen was the drummer. The new group called itself Feedback then changed its name to the Hype before it finally settled on U2.
"We formed a band before we could play our instruments," Bono said, “We were a pretty crap wedding band actually." However their big break came when Dublin businessman Paul McGuinness recognised the band's spark when he went to see it at the urging of a local music journalist. He became their manager -“They were four guys on a stage making an enormous noise and producing something very exciting." In 1978, U2 won a talent contest in Limerick, with a prize of 500 Irish pounds and a studio recording session. They produced a three-song single ‘U23.’ In 1980, the group signed with Island Records and released its first album, ‘Boy.’ The rest as they say is history