Isikhumbuzo seminyaka engama-40
Kule veki kuphawula iminyaka engama-40 ye-U2. Abalandeli kwihlabathi liphela babhiyozela iminyaka engama-40 yokusekwa kweli qela leentsomi laseIreland eliphawule imbali yamatye kule minyaka ingamashumi amane.
Konke kwaqala ngo-1976, xa uLarry Mullen Jr. wathumela uphawu kwibhodi yeebhulethini zamabanga aphakamileyo ezazifunda "Igubu lifuna iimvumi ukuba zenze iqela". Isikolo iMount Temple Comprehensive School eDublin yayiliziko apho bonke babefunda khona phakathi kwiminyaka yoo-1970. Inqaku laphumelela kuloo nto ngoMgqibelo umhla we-25 kweyoMsintsi ngo-1976 ulutsha lwaseIreland, uBono Vox (imvumi), iThe Edge (ikatala, ikhibhodi nelizwi) no-Adam Clayton (bass) badibana okokuqala ekhitshini lendlu yegubu uLarry Mullen ukuzilolonga.
Ngasekupheleni kwe-1976 iinyanga, abafikisayo abane benxibe ijean kunye neebhatyi zesikhumba baqala ukuziqhelanisa nefom iqela ababelibhaptiza okokuqala ngegama elithi Impendulo. «Eli qela lingaqhelekanga labaselula lidibene ekhitshini lendlu yam eArtane (kwisithili saseMantla eDublin). Kwaye apho kwaqala khona konke », njengoko uMullen etyhila kwiwebhusayithi yeqela. UMullen uyongeza koku: "Kwasekuqaleni kwakucacile ukuba uBono wayeza kuba yimvumi, kungengenxa yelizwi lakhe, kodwa ngenxa yokuba wayengenaso isiginci, kungekho amp, kungekho ndlela yothutho".
Ngezo ntsuku, iqela lolutsha lalinazo phantse izixhobo, lalingenazo nezandisi-lizwi, kodwa ubuncinci babenamagitare amabini, ibass, ikhithi yegubu kunye nesiqingatha sesandisi-lizwi ababedibanise kulo bonke. U-Edge ukhumbula ukuba ukudlala imizuzu emibini kuye kwafuneka "Ukulungisa imizuzu engama-45 kwangaphambili, ke ukuzilolonga bekucotha kwaye yonke into ibijolise ekuzameni ukudlala ingoma yonke, nokuba ibiyintoni na, kodwa asikaze siphumelele". I-Edge ikwaqinisekisa: “Sifunde ukudlala kunye, besingenalo nofifi lokuyilwa, nangona bekukho iimpawu zobuchule kwezi zixhobo. Ngokwenene besingakhathali nokuba besingazi ukuba sidlala kakuhle, ngalo mzuzu sasiqhutywa ngamandla okwenza into entsha kunye nenjongo yokuzama ukuthetha into egqithileyo kwabanye ».
I-albhamu yokuqala njenge-U2 yabizwa ngegama 'Inkwenkwe' (1980), kodwa Kwakungenxa yeMfazwe kuphela (ngo-1983) (i-albhamu yabo yesithathu) apho bafikelela kwinombolo yokuqala e-UK.
-U2 (@ U2) 25 Septemba ye-2016