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This is a timeline of the history of rock band U2: ==pre 1980== *13 March 1960: Adam Clayton is born in Chinnor, Oxfordshire.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adam Clayton (I) )〕 *10 May 1960: Paul David Hewson (Bono) is born in Dublin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bono )〕 *8 August 1961: David Howell Evans (The Edge) is born in East London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Edge )〕 *31 October 1961: Larry Mullen, Jr. is born in Artane, Dublin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Larry Mullen Jr. )〕 *September 1974: Bono’s mother Iris Hewson dies of a brain aneurysm in Dublin four days after collapsing at her father’s funeral.〔Stokes (1996), p. 140.〕 *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.〔McGee (2008), p. 9〕 *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.〔Chatterton (2001), page 130〕 Martin did not return after the first practice, and McCormick left the group within a few weeks. *September 1976: The group settle on the name "Feedback", because it was one of the few technical terms they knew.〔McCormick (2006), page 30〕 *late 1976: The band play their first performance at a talent contest in the school canteen.〔Parra (1996), p. 6.〕 *February/March: The band records a performance of their song "The Fool" in February for the RTÉ programme, ''Our Times''. It airs in March and is the band's first television appearance.〔McGee (2008), p. 14〕 *16 March 1978: The band win a talent show in Limerick, Ireland, the prize of which is £500 and studio time to record a demo for CBS Ireland.〔 *20 March 1978: The band plays their last concert as The Hype. Dik leaves the stage and the remaining four continue to play but as "U2".〔McCormick (2006), pages 46–48〕 *28 April 1978: Bill Graham writes his first interview with U2 in Hot Press. *April 1978: The band records their first demo tape at Keystone Studios, Dublin.〔Wall, Mick, (2005). Bono. Andre Deutsch Publishers. ISBN 978-0-233-00159-3 (Promotional edition published by Paperview UK is association with the Irish Independent), pages 45〕 *25 May 1978: Paul McGuinness agrees to become U2's manager.〔Stokes (1996), p. 140; McCormick (2006), pages 53–56〕 *9 September 1978: U2 support The Stranglers at the Top Hat Ballroom. Their biggest gig so far, they are paid £50.〔 *November 1978: Mullen's mother, Maureen Mullen, is killed in a car accident.〔 *December 1978: U2 play support to The Greedy Bastards, a band made up of Sex Pistols, Thin Lizzy and Boomtown Rats members, at the Stardust nightclub in Dublin.〔Stokes (1996), p. 140.〕 *February 1979: Using borrowed money, Bono travels to London to plug U2 at the offices of record companies and music magazines.〔 *May 1979: U2 play the first of six afternoon concerts at the Dandelion Market in Dublin. Organised for young people otherwise prohibited from the venues U2 play, the concerts greatly expand their Dublin audience.〔de la Parra (1994), page 8; Stokes (1996), p. 140.〕 *September 1979: U2's first release, an Ireland-only EP entitled ''Three'', becomes the band's first Irish chart success.〔de la Parra (1994), page 8〕 *5 October 1979: U2 play their first television performance on RTE at a televised concert in the Cork Opera House.〔 *26 October 1979: U2 are featured on the cover of ''Hot Press'' magazine.〔 *1 November 1979: U2 receive their first cover story outside of Ireland in British magazine ''Record Mirror''.〔 *1 December 1979: With ₤3,000 borrowed from family and friends, U2 begin a two-week tour of London clubs, their first shows outside Ireland.〔; Stokes (1996), p. 140.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of U2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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