In an excerpt from his new memoir, Island Records founder Chris Blackwell details what convinced him to sign U2: “I believed in them as people even if the music had passed by me.”
I was at Compass Point, my recording studio in the Bahamas, in the spring of 1980 when Rob Partridge, the head of Island press, first told me about U2. He called me up and said, “I think there is a band you will really like. They are Irish, and they’ve got something.” He wasn’t the excitable type, so I took him seriously.
U2’s name instantly hooked me even if the music didn’t. I go by names, they mean a lot, and I was quite capable of not signing an act because their name wasn’t right. If I thought there was nothing you could do with a name, I never had any interest. U2 you could definitely do something with—it would look great printed big on a poster, and it was something you said every day.There was a little wobble about their name amongst the Island staff—they were being called the U2s.
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