Bono admits he dislikes U2’s name and gets ’embarrassed’ listening to old songs

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Bono hasn’t sugarcoated how he really feels about U2’s name and early music, admitting that he sometimes feels ‘embarrassed’ listening to their tracks.For decades, U2 has been a household name, releasing iconic songs from Beautiful Day to With Or Without You.However, lead vocalist Bono – whose real name is Paul Hewson – confessed that despite the years that have gone by, he hasn’t grown fond of the group’s title.While speaking in a podcast interview with Bono, U2 guitarist The Edge explained that the band was originally called The Hype, but ended up changing it to U2 following a suggestion by their friend and graphic artist Steve Averill.‘Of the suggestions, it wasn’t that it jumped out to us as the name we were really looking for, but it was the one that we hated the least.

And what we loved about it was that it was not obvious from the name what this band would sound like or be about. It felt fresh in that sense,’ he said.Speaking on the Awards Chatter podcast, The Edge added: ‘It was the one we chose and we didn’t really love it at first,’ before Bono piped up to say: ‘I still don’t.

I really don’t.’Making his point clear, the singer continued: ‘But I was late into some kind of dyslexia, I didn’t realise that the Beatles was a bad pun either.‘If we’d thought the implications of the letter and the number, in our head, it was like, the spy plane, it was a U-boat, it was futuristic.

But then as it turned out to imply this kind of acquiescence, no, I don’t like that name. I still don’t really like the name.’Looking back on some of U2’s early recordings, Bono said that in his opinion, his voice sounded ‘very strained’, joking that he ‘only became a singer recently’.‘I’ve been in a car when one of our songs has come on the.