OUT OF
CONTROL
U2
SONGWRITERS: CLAYTON ADAM; EVANS DAVID; MULLEN
LAURENCE & HEWSON PAUL DAVID
COUNTRY: IRELAND
ALBUM: BOY
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1980
U2 are an
Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono(lead vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge(lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), Adam Clayton(bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr.(drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has evolved throughout
their career, yet has maintained an anthemic quality built on Bono's expressive
vocals and the Edge's chiming, effects-based guitar sounds. Their
lyrics, often embellished with spiritual imagery, focus on personal and
sociopolitical themes. Popular for their live performances, the group have
staged several ambitious and elaborate tours over their career.
The band was
formed when the members were teenaged pupils of Mount Temple Comprehensive School and had limited musical proficiency.
Within four years, they signed with Island Records and released their debut album, Boy(1980). Subsequent work such as their first UK
number-one album, War(1983), and the singles "Sunday
Bloody Sunday"
and "Pride (In the Name of Love)" helped establish U2's reputation as a
politically and socially conscious group. By the mid-1980s, they had become
renowned globally for their live act, highlighted by their performance at Live Aid in 1985. The group's fifth album, The Joshua Tree(1987), made them international superstars and
was their greatest critical and commercial success. Topping
music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the
US to date: "With or Without You"
and "I Still Haven't
Found What I'm Looking For".
Boy is the
debut studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 20 October 1980 by Island Records and was produced by Steve Lillywhite. Boy contains songs from the band's 40-song
repertoire at the time, including two tracks that were re-recorded from their
original versions on the group's debut release, the EP Three.
Boy was
recorded from July to September 1980 at Dublin's Windmill
Lane Studios,
which became U2's chosen recording location during the 1980s. It was their
first time working with Lillywhite, who suggested recording drummer Larry Mullen Jr. playing in a stairwell, and
recording smashed bottles and forks played against a spinning bicycle wheel. The
band found Lillywhite to be very encouraging and creative, and he subsequently
became a frequent producer of their recorded work. Thematically, the album's
lyrics reflect on adolescence, innocence, and the passage into adulthood, themes
represented on its cover artwork through the photo of a young boy's face.
Boy received
generally positive reviews and included one of U2's first singles to receive
airplay on US radio, "I Will Follow". The release was followed by the band's
first tour of continental Europe and the US, the Boy Tour. The album peaked on the UK chart at number 52
in August 1981 and in the US at number 63. In 2003, Boy was ranked 417th on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". In 2008, a remastered edition of Boy was released.
Monday morning
Eighteen years of dawning
I said how long?
You say how long?
It was one dull
morning
I woke the world with bawling
I was so sad (so sad)
They were so glad
I was of the feeling
it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control
Boys and girls
Go to school
And girls
They make children
Not like this one
I was of the feeling
it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control
I was of the feeling
it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control
I fought fate
There's blood at the garden gate
The man said childhood
It's in his childhood
One day I'll die
The choice will not be mine
Will it be too late?
You can't fight fate
I was of the feeling
it was out of control
I had the opinion it was out of control.
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