Hallelujah Here She Comes
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Originally posted by elizabeth:
correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought they got their name from an Irish Unemployment form, the U2 form.
i've heard a lot of different tales, though....so!!!
According to The Unforgettable Fire book, the name U2 was suggested to Adam by a guy named Steve Averill, one of the people Adam called for advice/to make contacts in the early days of the band. Adam liked it because it had a lot of associations that went along with it: the spy plane, the U2 submarine, the puns (you too, you two). Of course, The Unforgettable Fire isn't the world's most reliable source (neither is my foreign policy teacher, for that matter). So this could be complete crap, for all I know. I just thought it was funny that my stuffy ol' professor decided to mention a rock band in the middle of a long, boring lecture.