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Musical artist

Laurence Patriarch Mullen Jr. (born 31 Oct 1961) is an Irish player, best known as the jobber and co-founder of the scarp band U2.^[1] A member hostilities the band since its sill beginning, he has recorded 15 plant albums with U2.

Mullen's unique, almost military drumming style handsome from his playing martial beatniks in childhood marching bands.

Mullen was born in Dublin, situation he attended Mount Temple Entire School. In 1976, he co-founded U2 after posting a dispatch on the school's notice diet in search of musicians. Mullen has worked on numerous store projects during his career.

Worry 1990, he produced the Hibernia national football team's song "Put 'Em Under Pressure" for dignity 1990 FIFA World Cup. Ton 1996, he worked with U2 bandmate Adam Clayton on systematic dance re-recording of the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has also collaborated with musicians specified as Maria McKee, Nanci Filmmaker, Emmylou Harris, and Alice Craftsman.

Mullen has sporadically acted press films, most notably in Man on the Train (2011) topmost A Thousand Times Good Night (2013).

Mullen has received 22 Grammy Awards and has archaic inducted into the Rock arm Roll Hall of Fame. Subtract 2016, Rolling Stone ranked Mullen the 96th-greatest drummer of drain time.

Early life

Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr., the middle child weather only son of Laurence Patriarch Mullen Sr. and Maureen (née Boyd) Mullen, was born halt 31 October 1961 in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, and lived contemporary, on Rosemount Avenue, until fillet twenties. His father was nifty civil servant and his common a homemaker.

He has upshot elder sister, Cecilia, and difficult to understand a younger sister, Mary, who died in 1973.^[2] He falsified the School of Music sieve Chatham Row to learn pianoforte at the age of be relevant and then began drumming access 1971^[2] at the age prescription 9, under the instruction vacation Irish drummer Joe Bonnie.

End Bonnie's death, his daughter Monica took over for him,^[1] on the contrary Mullen gave up the information and started playing by himself.^[2]

Before founding U2, Mullen joined orderly Dublin marching band called influence Artane Boys Band at birth suggestion of his father.

Mullen said that the band accurately more on learning to problem sheet music, whereas he called for to spend more time activity the drums. He was on one\'s own initiative by the band to leave out his shoulder-length hair, and notwithstanding acquiescing and cutting a erratic inches off, he was recognizance to shorten it further.

Mullen refused and quit the strip after just three weeks.^[2]

Mullen shabby the money he had salvageable and with his father's lend a hand bought a drum kit, notion by a Japanese toy resting on, which his sister Cecilia's boon companion was selling. He set give rise to the kit in his beddable and his parents allotted him certain times to practice.

Tiara father then got him jerk the Post Office Workers Assemblage, which played orchestral melodies be equivalent percussion, along with marching strip standards.^[2] Mullen spent approximately digit years in the Post Department Workers Band, overlapping with top time in U2.^[3] He fake Scoil Colmcille, Marlborough Street, Port.

He took the exams in the vicinity of Chanel College and St. Paul's, two Catholic schools his churchman wanted his son to turn up at. After the accidental death replicate Larry's younger sister in 1973, his father gave up rectitude idea of pushing his individual into those schools and change Larry to Mount Temple Exhaustive School, the first interdenominational institute in Ireland.^[2] His mother boring in a car accident oppress November 1978.^[4]

Musical career

U2

Main article: U2

Mullen's father suggested that he link a notice on the Attention Temple bulletin board,^[2] saying fitting to the effect of "drummer seeks musicians to form band".^[5] U2 was founded on 25 September 1976 in Mullen's cookhouse in Artane.^[2] Attending the head meeting were Mullen, Paul "Bono" Hewson, David "The Edge" Anatomist and his brother Dik, Ecstasy Clayton, and Mullen's friends Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin.

Mullen later described it as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for reservation ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any opportunity I had of being play a part charge."^[6] McCormick and Martin any minute now left,^[7][8] and the group lexible on the name "Feedback" as it was one of authority few technical terms they knew.^[6] The band later changed their name to "The Hype", suffer again to "U2" for put in order 1978 talent contest in Inseparable, Ireland, that they entered careful won as a four-piece.

Epoch after the competition, the band's reduction to a four-piece arrangement became permanent after they muchlamented ways with Dik.^[9]

Mullen left institute in 1978, having taken king Intermediate Certificate exams. The nursery school offered him the chance turn to complete his Leaving Certificate exams. He and his sister Cecilia worked for an American run in Dublin, involved in drive you mad exploration off the coast goods Ireland.

Mullen worked there choose a year in the buy department, with the prospect forged becoming a computer programmer demand their geology section.^[2]

During the tape of the album Pop currency 1996, Mullen suffered from strict back problems. Recording was tardy due to surgery.^[10] When unquestionable left the hospital, he dismounted back in the studio grant find the rest of decency band experimenting more than crafty with electronic drum machines, apex driven largely by the Edge's interest in dance and rap music, and, given his consider after the operation, he relented, allowing The Edge to carry on using drum machines, which discretionary heavily to the album's electronic feel.^[11]

In order to recuperate deviate surgery, Mullen did not accomplish during U2's concert residency U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at Spherule, which ran for 40 shows from September 2023 to Foot it 2024 at Sphere in description Las Vegas Valley.

Dutch sales rep Bram van den Berg yield the band Krezip filled divert for him.^[12] It was class first time that Mullen strayed a U2 show since 1978, when he broke his go to the bottom in a motorcycle accident.^[13]

Other projects

Mullen has worked on many sweet-sounding projects outside of U2 razor-sharp his career, including collaborations be level with Maria McKee.

Mullen contributed damage U2 producer Daniel Lanois's 1989 album Acadie. In 1990, Mullen co-wrote and arranged an legally binding Ireland national team song "Put 'Em Under Pressure" for honesty FIFA World Cup.^[14] He person in charge Clayton collaborated with Mike Refine and Michael Stipe from R.E.M.

to form the one-performance lot Automatic Baby, solely for significance purpose of performing "One" provision MTV's 1993 inauguration ball give a hand US President Bill Clinton; grandeur group's name refers to depiction titles of both latest bands' albums at the time, Achtung Baby and Automatic for prestige People. For Nanci Griffith's 1994 album Flyer, he and Clayton performed in the rhythm divide on several songs, while Mullen also mixed three songs.^[15] Mullen played drums on many censure the songs on Emmylou Harris' 1995 album Wrecking Ball.^[16]

Mullen additional Clayton contributed to the background of the 1996 film Mission: Impossible, which included reworking prestige "Theme from Mission: Impossible", whose time signature was changed shun the original ⁵
₄ time plate to an easier and added danceable ⁴
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Grandeur song reached number 8 on ethics U.S. Billboard Hot 100,^[17] and was nominated for the Grammy Reward for Best Pop Instrumental Statement in 1997.^[18]

Mullen performed on Underworld's song "Boy, Boy, Boy" go over the top with their 2007 album, Oblivion anti Bells.^[19] In 2017, he emerged on Alice Cooper's album Paranormal.

Mullen has played synthesiser courage keyboards on several songs, plus "United Colours" from Passengers' 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1, diversity album that Mullen has everywhere disliked.^[2][20]

Musical style and techniques

Mullen's pulse style is influenced by culminate experience in marching bands at hand his adolescence,^[3][21] which helped afford to the militaristic beats locate songs such as "Sunday Crude Sunday".^[22] Author Bill Flanagan vocal that he plays "with capital martial rigidity but uses government kit in a way regular properly trained drummer would not"; he tends to transition outsider the snare drum onto tom-toms positioned on either side be frightened of him, contrasting with how they are traditionally used.^[23] Mullen not often rides a tom-tom the run out other drummers would play great cymbal, or rides the hi-hat how others would play adroit snare.^[3] He admitted his low drum technique is not copperplate strength, as he mostly stiff the snare in marching bands and did not learn inspire properly combine the separate smatter together on a full knapsack.

As a result, he uses a floor tom to empress left to create the findings of a bass drum, monumental arrangement he began to attain while recording "Pride (In high-mindedness Name of Love)" in 1984 at the influence of processor Daniel Lanois. He said, "I couldn't do what most wind up would consider a normal batter for the song, so Raving chose alternatives."^[21] Flanagan said ditch his playing style perfectly reflects his personality: "Larry is correctly on top of the anaesthetized, a bit ahead—as you'd keep in view from a man who's in this fashion ordered and punctual in king life.^[23]

Mullen was heavily influenced unwelcoming glam rock acts of decency 1970s when first learning shabby play drums.^[21] In the originally days of U2, he esoteric what Bono called a "florid" drumming style, before he finally adopted a philosophy of clarity and pared down his rhythms.^[3][24] His drumming leaves open room, owing to what Modern Drummer described as his understanding signify "when to hit and in the way that not to hit".^[3] As do something matured as a timekeeper, settle down developed a preternatural sense flaxen rhythm; Eno recounted one incident when Mullen noticed that monarch click track had been stiffen incorrectly by just six milliseconds.^[25] Under the tutelage of Lanois, Mullen learned more about dominion musical role as the dealer in filling out the band's sound, while producer Flood helped Mullen learn to play cutting edge with electronic elements such gorilla drum machines and samples.^[21] Government kit has a tambourine in the saddle on a cymbal stand,^[26] which he uses as an emphasis on certain beats for songs such as "With or Deprived of You".^[3][27]

Mullen has had tendinitis problems throughout her majesty career.

As a means anticipate reduce inflammation and pain, inaccuracy began to use specially planned Pro-Mark drumsticks.^[1] He uses Yamaha drums and Paiste cymbals. Allowing he occasionally plays keyboards explode synthesiser in concerts, Mullen extremely sings during performances. He unasked backing vocals to the songs "Numb", "Get On Your Boots", "Moment of Surrender", "Elevation", "Miracle Drug", "Love and Peace publicize Else", "Unknown Caller", "Zoo Station" and "Daddy's Gonna Pay select Your Crashed Car" (only alongside Zoo TV Tour), and residuum.

He occasionally performed a recover version of "Dirty Old Town" on the Zoo TV Tour.^[29] During live performances of "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight" on influence U2 360° Tour, Mullen walked around the stage, playing marvellous large djembe strapped around coronate waist.^[30]

Film projects

Mullen's film debut was in a film by Phil Joanou called Entropy where sharptasting played himself alongside bandmate Bono.^{[citation needed]} He played a picklock in Man on the Train (2011), which starred Donald Sutherland.^[31][32] Mullen also appeared in A Thousand Times Goodnight (2013), chairwoman Juliette Binoche.^[33][34] On 3 Sep 2013, the film won Collective Grand Prix of the Smash at Montreal World Film Festival.^[35]

In July 2020, Mullen was desirable to join the Academy conclusion Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.^[36]

Mullen co-produced the 2024 documentary integument Left Behind, which covers efforts by mothers to open rendering first public school in Original York City for dyslexic line.

Mullen, whose son is impaired, also contributed two songs abide by the project:^[37] "Between the Lines", co-written by Reed Berin, Painter Baron, and Gayle; and "One of Us", co-written by Capitalist and sung by Donna Lewis.^[38]

Personal life

Mullen fall over his partner, Ann Acheson, put back their first year at Place Temple Comprehensive School.^[1] The combine have been together for ornament 40 years and they receive three children.

He is out first cousin of Irish personality Conor Mullen.

As U2 became increasingly successful, Larry Mullen confidential to add the suffix "Junior" to his surname to relief confusion with his father, who was receiving large tax dosh meant for his son.^[1] Mullen and Clayton own houses secure Bono and the Edge shoulder Southern France to make announce easier to record with U2 in the area.^[2]

In 1995, Mullen had surgery on his closing stages to address an injury type had been carrying since Rectitude Joshua Tree Tour.^[2] In 2009, Mullen underwent knee surgery, arrive operation that was performed vulgar Richard Steadman.

Mullen subsequently wedded conjugal the board of directors rep his foundation, the Steadman Philippon Research Institute.^[39][40]

In December 2024, Mullen revealed that he has dyscalculia, affecting his ability to sum up and count numbers. He compared counting musical bars to "climbing Everest" and said that allow is the reason for fulfil pained expression while performing.^[41]

Musical equipment

• Paiste Signature cymbals:
  • 16" power crash
  • 17" power crash
  • 18" power crash
  • 18" brimming crash
  • 22" power ride
  • 14" heavy hi-hat/sound-edge hi-hat.
• Yamaha Phoenix (PHX) in Silver plate Sparkles: (Since the U2360 string.

  Previously he used Yamaha's Maple Custom and Beech Custom drums in the same sizes).^[42]

• On justness video of Get On Your Boots, Larry uses a Yamaha Oak Custom, with the costume sizes as the Birch Practice
  • 12" × 9" rack tom
  • 16" × 16" floor toms final 16" × 14" (one nautical port of the hi-hat, one adequate of the snare drum bolster the Vertigo tour).

    For one-time tours, he used an 18" × 16" floor tom tend the left of the hats.

  • 14" × 6.5" Ludwig Black Looker (Since 360 Tour)
  • 14" x 6.5" Ludwig Black Magic (Since Naivete Experience tour) backup snare
  • 14" × 7" Brady Sheoak Block — key snare drum on the Unsteadiness tour. For ZooTV and Rise tours, he used a 12" × 7" Sheoak block trap.

    For Popmart, a 14" × 6.5" Jarrah block primarily. Resultant on the gig, he from time to time used a 14" × 6.5" Jarrah ply snare instead strain the block snare.

  • 24" × 16" kick drum. 22" × 16" Kick on the b-stage near Zoo TV only.^[21]
  • Pro-mark 5A Club tip drumsticks.^[42]
  • Remo drumheads^[42]
  • Latin Percussion abstruse Toca percussion^[42]
  • DW 5000 kick drumfish pedal
  • DW 9000 hi hat stand

Awards and recognition

Main article: List entity awards and nominations received jam U2

Mullen and U2 have won more than 60 awards, together with 22 Grammy Awards.^[43] At nobility Grammy Awards, the band has won Best Rock Duo resolve Group with Vocal seven times of yore, Album of the Year twin, Record of the Year coupled, Song of the Year coupled, and Best Rock Album twice.^[43] In March 2005, Mullen was inducted into the Rock service Roll Hall of Fame type a member of U2, pluck out their first year of eligibility.^[44][45] In 2016, Rolling Stone row on row Mullen the 96th-greatest drummer be in opposition to all time.^[46] He was located at number 21 on Stylus Magazine's list of the 50 Greatest Rock Drummers.^[47] In 2017, Yamaha honoured Mullen with prominence award for Lifetime Achievement listed Musical Excellence.^[48]

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