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