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Apr 5, 2011 · Hampshire-based musician Ivan McCormick recalls his teenage years when he nearly became a member of U2. In 1976 he joined a band set up by a school-mate, 14-year-old Larry Mullen.
Sep 4, 2016 · Ivan McCormick was just 13 years old when he heard from a fellow school friend that Larry Mullen, a pupil a year ahead of him at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin, had placed an...
Sep 25, 2021 · Shook Up! saw the first released music from the McCormick brothers, but Ivan would also play on a few tracks on Neil’s album released under the name The Ghost Who Walks. Their story of the McCormick’s lives in the music business in the 1980s is covered in Neil’s book, Killing Bono.
Mullen played drums and was joined by: Paul Hewson ("Bono") on lead vocals; David Evans ("the Edge") and his older brother Dik Evans on guitar; Adam Clayton, a friend of the Evans brothers, on bass guitar; and Ivan McCormick. Mullen later described it as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I ...
The first meeting of the group that would become U2 took place at 60 Rosemount Avenue, in the kitchen of Larry Mullen’s childhood home. It was a Saturday afternoon in Dublin, on September 25, 1976, the date confirmed by an entry in Ivan McCormick’s diary.
Killing Bono is a 2011 comedy film directed by Nick Hamm, based on Neil McCormick's memoir Killing Bono: I Was Bono's Doppelgänger (2003). The film stars Ben Barnes as Neil McCormick, Robert Sheehan as Ivan McCormick and Martin McCann as Irish singer Bono. It marked the final film role of Pete Postlethwaite, who died three months before its ...
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Apr 8, 2011 · Sarah Crompton talks to Neil and Ivan McCormick about Frankie Corpse & the Undertakers, the 1970s band that almost gave the young U2 a run for their money.
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