U2 celebrate 50th anniversary at the school where they formed
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Watch: U2 return to school where everything started for their 50th anniversary Exactly 50 years after they formed, U2 returned to Dublin to play a gig at the school where they met. ”We‘ve escaped from the lab,” declared Bono, as they quartet took to a stage in the playground.
观看：U2 重返学校，庆祝成立 50 周年 成立 50 年后，U2 回到都柏林，在他们相遇的学校进行演出。 “我们已经逃离了实验室，”当他们四人组登上操场上的舞台时，波诺说道。
“How’s the experiment working for you?” The pupils of Mount Temple Comprehensive may not have been born when U2 were the world’s biggest band, but they gave them a hero's welcome, waving signs that said, “I love U2“, “It’s a beautiful day - no school”, and, “Bono, my mum says hi!” The group treated them to a career-spanning set that included hits like I Will Follow, Vertigo and With Or Without You, as well as their latest single, Silencio.
“这个实验对你来说效果如何？” 圣殿山综合学校的学生可能还没有出生在 U2 成为世界上最大乐队的时候，但他们却以英雄般的方式欢迎了他们，挥舞着标语，上面写着“我爱 U2”、“这是美好的一天 - 没有学校”以及“波诺，我妈妈打招呼！” 该乐队为他们提供了一套涵盖职业生涯的专辑，其中包括《I Will Follow》、《Vertigo》和《With Or Without You》等热门歌曲，以及他们的最新单曲《Silencio》。
As they played, teachers pulled down pupils who’d climbed on their classmates' shoulders, before getting swept up in the moment and dancing along themselves. As he looked out from the same stage where U2 made their debut in 1976, Bono became emotional.
当他们玩耍的时候，老师们把爬到同学肩膀上的学生拉下来，然后他们就沉浸在这一刻并跟着一起跳舞。 当波诺站在 U2 1976 年首次亮相的同一个舞台上眺望时，他激动不已。
“Thanks for, er… Yeah...
“谢谢，呃……是的……
I didn’t… Wow,” said the frontman, temporarily lost for words.
我没有……哇，”主唱一时说不出话来。
U2 were all pupils at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in the mid-1970s The band played their first gig at a school talent competition, covering Peter Frampton's Show Me The Way and Bye Bye Baby by the Bay City Rollers The band played seven songs at the end of the school day: I Will Follow, Vertigo, Beautiful Day, Out of Control, Silencio, One and With or Without You Pupils clamoured to meet the band, who have sold more than 175 million records worldwide The U2 story began in those same halls and corridors five decades ago, when 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr pinned a handwritten note to the school noticeboard.
U2都是20世纪70年代中期圣殿山综合学校的学生 乐队在学校才艺比赛中首次演出，翻唱了 Bay City Rollers 的 Peter Frampton 的 Show Me The Way 和 Bye Bye Baby 乐队在放学时演奏了七首歌曲：《I Will Follow》、《Vertigo》、《Beautiful Day》、《Out of Control》、《Silencio》、《One》和《With or Without You》 学生们争先恐后地想见到这支乐队，他们的唱片在全球销量超过 1.75 亿张 U2 的故事始于 5 年前的那些大厅和走廊，当时 14 岁的拉里·马伦 (Larry Mullen Jr) 在学校布告栏上贴了一张手写便条。
Auditions were held a couple of days later, on 25 September, 1976, in Larry's parents' kitchen.
几天后，即 1976 年 9 月 25 日，试镜在拉里父母的厨房里举行。
Among the hopeful "misfits", as their school-friend Frank Kearns called them, were Bono, The Edge and Adam Clayton – who arrived wearing a full-length Afghan coat. Initially called Feedback, and then The Hype, they conquered the world as U2, transforming themselves from a scrappy punk outfit into stadium-conquering rock titans, whose big ideas and big anthems attracted millions of admirers, and almost as many detractors.
正如他们的校友弗兰克·卡恩斯所说，这些充满希望的“格格不入”的人包括波诺、边缘和亚当·克莱顿——他们穿着一件长款阿富汗外套抵达。 他们最初被称为“Feedback”，后来被称为“The Hype”，他们以 U2 的名字征服了世界，从一支斗志旺盛的朋克乐队转变为征服体育场的摇滚巨头，他们的伟大想法和伟大赞歌吸引了数百万崇拜者，也吸引了几乎同样多的批评者。
Speaking to BBC News, Mullen confessed the infamous wanted advert had been his father's idea all along.
马伦在接受 BBC 新闻采访时承认，臭名昭著的通缉广告一直是他父亲的主意。
"I'd been playing on my own, in my house, and my dad was pretty frustrated," he says.
“我一直在家里独自玩耍，我爸爸非常沮丧，”他说。
"I wasn't very good at many things, and playing the drums was included in that.
“我在很多事情上都不太擅长，其中包括打鼓。
So I think he, out of frustration, said I should try and play with other people."
所以我认为他出于沮丧而说我应该尝试和其他人一起玩。”
"And unfortunately," adds Bono, "he got the three of us."
“不幸的是，”波诺补充道，“他抓住了我们三个人。”
The group honed their skills over dozens of gigs in the Dublin venue McGonagles Bono, then known as Paul Hewson, had actually been tempted to skip the audition.
该乐队在都柏林 McGonagles 场地进行了数十场演出，磨练了自己的技能 波诺（当时被称为保罗·休森）实际上曾想跳过试镜。
He was two years older, and concerned about looking out of place.
他比他大两岁，担心自己看起来不合时宜。
"I wouldn't be hanging out with second years, and particularly really good-looking ones," he says.
“我不会和二年级学生一起出去玩，尤其是那些长得非常漂亮的学生，”他说。
Eventually, his friend Reggie Manuel persuaded him to attend, even giving him a lift on his rickety old motorbike.
最终，他的朋友雷吉·曼努埃尔说服他参加，甚至还搭了他那辆摇摇晃晃的旧摩托车。
"I can tell myself it was a Harley Davidson," the singer jokes, "but really it was a Yamaha DX100."
“我可以告诉自己这是一辆哈雷戴维森，”这位歌手开玩笑说，“但实际上它是一辆雅马哈 DX100。”
The first band practice didn't exactly show promise. There was more talking than playing.
第一次乐队排练并没有完全展现出希望。 谈话多于玩耍。
Clayton, a bassist who couldn't play bass, was selected on account of having "the best hair".
克莱顿是一位不会弹贝斯的贝斯手，却因拥有“最好的头发”而被选中。
And Bono, who wanted to be the guitarist, didn't bring a guitar.
而想当吉他手的波诺却没有带吉他。
"I was never any good with gear," he reflects. "Carrying it, unpacking it, that kind of thing."
“我从来都不擅长使用装备，”他反思道。 “携带它，打开它，诸如此类的事情。”
The quartet have remained friends since 1976, partly due to a decision to split all their earnings equally Even so, there were signs the band would attract an adoring legion of fans.
自 1976 年以来，四人一直是朋友，部分原因是他们决定平分所有收入 即便如此，有迹象表明乐队仍会吸引大批粉丝。
Half-way through the rehearsal, a group of screaming girls tried to climb the garden wall.
排练进行到一半时，一群尖叫的女孩试图爬上花园的围墙。
For Clayton, that was the moment that sealed the deal.
对于克莱顿来说，那是达成交易的时刻。
"Larry already had a fan club, and we thought, 'Well, if he's got a fan club, that looks pretty good to us.
“拉里已经有了一个粉丝俱乐部，我们想，‘好吧，如果他有一个粉丝俱乐部，那对我们来说看起来相当不错。
Maybe if we hang out with this guy, it might stretch a little further'." Mullen, forever the band's stoic moral compass, was not impressed by the invasion. "As I recall, Larry Mullen took a hose to the fans," laughs Bono.
也许如果我们和这个家伙一起出去玩，事情可能会更进一步。” 马伦永远是乐队坚忍的道德指南针，他对这次入侵并不感兴趣。 “我记得，拉里·马伦拿了一根水管冲向球迷，”波诺笑着说。
"I don't know what possessed me," the drummer grimaces, while trying to insist the hosing "was an act of kindness and love because it was a hot day". "They enjoyed it," he protests.
“我不知道是什么让我着迷，”鼓手做了个鬼脸，同时试图坚称软管“是一种善意和爱的行为，因为那天很热”。 “他们很享受，”他抗议道。
"It was playful."
“很好玩。”
Bono jumps in to save his friend's embarrassment…. Well, kind of.
波诺跳了出来，避免了他朋友的尴尬…… 嗯，有点。
"It's been the story of our lives ever since.
“从那时起，这就是我们生活的故事。
He doesn't even want to have fans, but we quite like them." The 1992 Zoo TV Tour pushed the boundaries of what was possible in a stadium show, ushering in an era of video screens and multimedia backdrops From that kitchen in Rosemount Avenue, U2 became the world's biggest rock band.
他甚至不想有粉丝，但我们很喜欢他们。” 1992 年动物园电视巡演突破了体育场表演的界限，开创了视频屏幕和多媒体背景的时代 从罗斯蒙特大道的那个厨房开始，U2 成为了世界上最大的摇滚乐队。
Anthems like With Or Without You, One and Beautiful Day have always sounded majestic yet personal; powered by The Edge's cascading guitar tone and Bono's lyrics which, for all their proselytising, remain grounded in a belief in humanity.
像《With Or Without You》、《One》和《Beautiful Day》这样的歌曲听起来总是雄伟而个性化。由 The Edge 层叠的吉他音色和 Bono 的歌词提供动力，尽管他们的劝说，仍然植根于对人性的信仰。
They made a stylistic swerve in the 1990s, embracing electronics, dance music and irony on the albums Achtung Baby, Zooropa and Pop.
他们在 20 世纪 90 年代进行了风格转变，在专辑《Achtung Baby》、《Zooropa》和《Pop》中融入电子、舞曲和讽刺元素。
Along the way, they reinvented stadium concerts with the Zoo TV tour, whose stage was crammed full of multimedia screens and satellite feeds, while Bono made nightly prank calls to the White House.
一路上，他们通过动物园电视巡演重塑了体育场音乐会，舞台上挤满了多媒体屏幕和卫星直播，而波诺每晚都会给白宫打电话恶作剧。
The Edge, real name Dave Evans, puts their longevity down to a lack of formal training. "It's been a guiding light, in some ways, the limitations of the band," he explains.
The Edge 的真名是戴夫·埃文斯 (Dave Evans)，他将自己的长寿归因于缺乏正规训练。 “在某种程度上，它是乐队的局限性的指路明灯，”他解释道。
"We're in this place where, musically, we never know what's about to happen. It can fall apart or it can become something extraordinary.
“我们正处于这个地方，从音乐上来说，我们永远不知道会发生什么。 它可能会崩溃，也可能会变得非凡。
Back on stage at Mount Temple, Bono paid tribute to his alma matter for allowing the band to flourish. The support of teachers allowed them to realise that “maybe all we needed was around us, just under our feet,” he said.
回到圣殿山的舞台上，波诺向母校致敬，感谢母校让乐队得以蓬勃发展。 老师的支持让他们意识到“也许我们需要的一切就在我们身边，就在我们脚下，”他说。
And he dedicated the performance to school councillor Jack Heaslip, who later became a “travelling pastor” on the band’s tours, before his death from motor neurone disease in 2015.
他还将这场演出献给学校议员杰克·希斯利普 (Jack Heaslip)，后者后来成为乐队巡演中的“旅行牧师”，直到 2015 年因运动神经元疾病去世。
U2 then closed their set with an orchestral arrangement of One, assisted by students from Ireland's Music Generation education programme, which they helped fund and establish 15 years ago.
随后，U2 以管弦乐改编的《One》结束了他们的演出，爱尔兰音乐一代教育计划的学生在他们的协助下完成了演出，该计划是他们在 15 年前资助和建立的。
A few hours earlier, the band announced their 16th studio album, Carnaval de Luz, which will be released in November.
几个小时前，乐队宣布了他们的第 16 张录音室专辑《Carnaval de Luz》，将于 11 月发行。
It's a companion piece to February's angry, impassioned EP, Days of Ash, which tackled headlines about ICE killings in America, the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
这是二月份愤怒而热情的 EP 《Days of Ash》的姊妹篇，该专辑探讨了有关美国 ICE 杀戮、乌克兰战争和以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突的头条新闻。
That was followed by the more sedate Easter Lily EP in April; with Carnaval de Luz rounding off the story.
接下来是四月份更平静的 Easter Lily EP；光之狂欢节为故事画上了圆满的句号。
The Edge described it as "a messy, provocative, sacred collection of songs", while Bono promised "loud guitars, deep bass [and] ecstatic rhythms."
《The Edge》将其描述为“混乱、挑衅、神圣的歌曲集”，而波诺则承诺“响亮的吉他、深沉的低音[和]欣喜若狂的节奏”。
Closing out the album's 12 tracks is Torn, a song co-written by Dolly Parton, which was the country icon's final recorded performance before her death last month.
这张专辑的 12 首曲目是《Torn》，这首歌是由多莉·帕顿 (Dolly Parton) 共同创作的，这是这位乡村偶像上个月去世前录制的最后一首歌曲。
In a press release, the track was described as "a tender country song detailing broken family ties, that holds wider resonances". BBC News will run an interview about that song, and the rest of the album, in the coming weeks.
在一份新闻稿中，这首歌被描述为“一首温柔的乡村歌曲，详细描述了破碎的家庭关系，引起了更广泛的共鸣”。 BBC 新闻将在未来几周内对这首歌以及专辑的其余部分进行采访。
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U2 吉他手 The Edge 成为爱尔兰公民 U2：“我们希望发出未来的声音” 波诺说，U2 的名字和歌曲让我感到畏缩
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