This Day In U2 History

May 10

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U2 History on this Day

  • Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland (1960)
  • U2Songs.Com team member Aaron J. Sams was born (1973)
  • Bono claims to have written “Out of Control” today on his eighteenth birthday, although the line about Monday morning suggests he may have started it a few days earlier. (1978)
  • Bono’s daughter Jordan Hewson was born (1989)
  • On a chart dated May 10, “Staring at the Sun” peaks in the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the USA at #26. (1997)

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