Adam Clayton

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Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton at a concert with U2

Adam Charles Clayton (born March 13, 1960 in Chinnor / Oxfordshire ) is the bass player for the Irish rock band U2 .

biography

Clayton is the eldest child of Brian, a Royal Air Force pilot , and Jo Clayton. When he was five, the family moved to Yellow Walls Road in Malahide , near Dublin , where his sister Sarah Jane (Sindy) and brother Sebastian were born.

Clayton attended the private boarding school “St. Columba's College ". Later he moved to the "Mount Temple High School" where he Bono , The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr. met. He started as a U2 bassist and band manager before Paul McGuinness . Clayton hit the headlines in August 1989 when he was arrested and charged in Dublin for possession of a small amount of cannabis . He prevented a conviction through a large charitable donation.

Adam Clayton was engaged to Naomi Campbell for 6 months in 1994 . On April 10, 2006, he announced his engagement to his longtime Canadian friend Susie Smith, who works in U2 Principal Management, on the U2 website. In the following year, however, they announced their separation. In mid-January 2011, the Irish Independent reported that Clayton and his French girlfriend had already become the parents of a boy in early 2010. Shortly afterwards, this message was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the band U2.

On September 4, 2013, Adam Clayton married his longtime Brazilian friend Mariana Teixeira De Carvalho in Dublin.

music

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Theme from Mission Impossible (with Larry Mullen )
  DE 6th 07/15/1996 (20 weeks)
  AT 4th 07/28/1996 (14 weeks)
  CH 9 07/07/1996 (20 weeks)
  UK 7th 06/15/1996 (12 weeks)
  US 7th 05/11/1996 (20 weeks)

1983 saw one of Clayton's few vocal appearances on Endless Deep , a B-side of U2's single Sunday Bloody Sunday .

Adam and Bono were on the Africa benefit single Do They Know It's Christmas? involved. Clayton also worked on Maria McKee's albums and played bass with Still Water and Jolie Louise on Daniel Lanois ' album Acadie . In 1994, Clayton and Larry Mullen's participation included the songs These Days in an Open Book , Don't Forget About Me , On Grafton Street and This Heart from the American singer Nanci Griffith's album Flyer .

On the 1995 album Original Soundtracks No. 1 , Clayton speaks the last verse of the song Your Blue Room . In 1996, he and his U2 bandmate Larry Mullen Jr. recorded the soundtrack for the film Mission: Impossible . The single Theme from "Mission Impossible" became an international top 10 hit.

Clayton is the winner of the Best Bassist Award at the Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards in 2001 and 2002. In addition to his work as a bassist at U2, he has also played with greats like BB King and others.

Award

Equipment

Adam Clayton with Warwick Star Bass, 2010

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Attention baby, Adam is the proud father of a little boy
  2. ^ Bono and wife Ali entertain boss of World Bank
  3. ↑ U2's Adam Clayton finds what he is looking for
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH UK
  5. ↑ Dirk Groll: Warwick Adam Clayton Reverso Signature. In: Guitar & Bass , 9/2010, pp. 146–148.
  6. ^ Stefan Braunschmidt: The workhorse. In: Guitar & Bass , 1/2016, pp. 124/125.
  7. ↑ musicnstuff.de: Basses à la U2. July 25, 2015, accessed July 27, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Clayton, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clayton, Adam Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British bass player for the Irish rock band U2
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Chinnor ( Oxfordshire )