Bono Turns Off The Radio When A U2 Song Comes On Because His Voice Makes Him ‘Cringe’
etcanada.comWhile speaking with the Times‘ “Awards Chatter” podcast, U2 frontman Bono reveals he hates the band’s name, his own singing voice and most of the songs the group has released.
Despite the band’s global renown, the 61-year-old singer says he switches off the radio when he hears a U2 song because he doesn’t like the sound of his own voice. “I only became a singer recently, maybe it hasn’t happened yet for some people’s ears and I understand that,” he says. READ MORE: Bono Explains Inspiration For New U2 Track ‘Your Song Saved My Life’, Teases Recording Session In ‘The Next Few Weeks’ During the podcast chat with the Edge for the movie “Sing 2”, which features Bono in his voice-acting debut and the new U2 track “Your Song Saved My Life”, the singer says he isn’t a fan of the band’s name, more than four decades after they formed.
While U2’s other members — Adam Clayton, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. — have come to like it, Bono says, “I still don’t. I really don’t.
But I was late into some kind of dyslexia.” “I didn’t realize 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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