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U2 goes back to school to put on a show where it all began 50 years ago · Best of: Features

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  U too goes back to school to put on a show where
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  it all began fifty years ago. Written by Peter Morrison band
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  Brian Melli. This article is being read by an automated voice generated
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  by Everlett. London, the AP, Irish band U2 returned to School Friday
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  to put on a surprise class in rock and roll, where they
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  formed a half century ago. The band ripped through a seven song
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  set, including an encore of With or Without You, for hundreds of
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  students in the schoolyard of Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, and
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  a crowd of others who got word of the gig or, like
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  a construction crew, several floors up a nearby building, were lucky to
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  be within earshot and have a bird's eye view. We escaped the
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  lab. How's the experiment going for you? Bono said as he pointed
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  to the science classrooms. The and got its start at The school
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  fifty years ago when a fourteen year old Larry Mullen posted a
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  note on a message board reading Drummer Seeks Musicians to Form Band.
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  Originally known as Feedback, the group consisted of singer Paul Hewson, now
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  Bono, guitarist David Evans, known as The
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  Edge, and Adam Clayton on bass. The rest, as they say, is
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  history, though it would be a couple of years before they settled
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  on the name U Two, band not until nineteen eighty, that their
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  first album, Boy, dropped, featuring I Will Follow, the first tune they
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  played for the enthusiastic children. The thirty minute gig was not quite
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  as secret as it may have seemed. A camera crew was rolling,
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  international news media were gathered, and a group of thirty two Students,
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  accompanied the band on stringed instruments for the hit. One It was
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  part of a promotional push for their new album, Carnival de Luz,
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  which features a duet between Bono!
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  And Didalliparton, who died of cancer last month. They later performed from
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  a balcony to a crowd of fans on popular Grafton Street in
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  central Dublin. Students, some sticking their heads out of classroom windows, screamed
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  and cheered. Them captured the moment on their phones, and sang along
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  to the familiar tunes. Some yelled, I love you, Bono Bono thanked
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  his captive audience but noted they had nowhere else to go. As
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  he counted down the signature started of Vertigo with uno dos tres
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  catorce one, two, three, fourteen, he quipped. If you're taking Spanish lessons,
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  don't take them from me. In a tribute to teachers, he became
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  philosophical about his time at the school, saying it was where the
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  band began them humblest and hardest lesson of learning how much they
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  needed to be taught. Part of that started here, and the sense
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  was that maybe all we needed was around us, just under our
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  feet, if we could see it in our mates, our wider community
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  that was going to help us get through the next fifty years,
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  he said. So we want to thank them, and the wider community
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  around this rock and roll high school. Melli reported from London.