U2 is an Irish rock band. Founded in Dublin 1976 with Bono as its frontman alongside The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr., the band started to break through globally with their 1983 album War. They then embarked on a string of classic albums produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, beginning with 1984’s The Unforgettable Fire (featuring the smash anthem Pride (In The Name Of Love) and The Joshua Tree in 1987. One of the best-selling albums of all time, it produced the No. 1 singles With or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For; won them their first Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Rock Performance By a Duo Or Group With Vocal; and was placed on Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list.

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The group has continuously broken box-office records for their global stadium tours supporting Grammy-winning albums—including Achtung Baby, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and How To Dismantle An Atom Bomb, for which they took home a second Album of the Year Grammy—and hit singles such as Beautiful Day and Vertigo. They have collaborated with the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Mary J. Blige, Lou Reed, and Luciano Pavarotti.

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U2 has appeared in the concert documentaries Rattle and Hum, Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with David Letterman, and U2: Innocence + Experience Live in Paris. They were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.