U2 Top 5 Facts

U2 have been together since 1978.

Bono Vox 's real name is Paul Hewson.

Their new single "Beautiful Day" was used Germany's Official Olympics theme for the Sydney 2000 games.

Bono is currently campaigning to abolish unpayable debts by third world countries.

U2 own a pub in the heart of Dublin.

Over 100 million albums and twenty two years since their formation at Dublin's Mount Temple High School in 1978 - at the instigation of Larry Mullen who pinned an ad to the bulletin board - there's little denying that U2 have cemented their reputation among the greatest rock acts in history. Two decades on they remain intact. No-one has ever left U2, no new member has ever joined. Together they have shared an extraordinary career thus far.