{"id":239580,"date":"2025-10-25T16:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T16:42:07","slug":"u2-issued-an-update-on-drummer-larry-mullen-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239580\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 issued an update on drummer Larry Mullen Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind a drummer is hard. Year after year, you\u2019re perched on your tailbone with all four limbs independently operating. These aren\u2019t normal actions for the human body. If you\u2019re not careful, you can end up with career-ending injuries like chronic carpal tunnel (Neil Peart<\/a>) or issues with the neck and back (Phil Collins<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Larry Mullen Jr<\/a>. of U2<\/a> has being dealing with back issues since at least the mid-90s. One of the reasons 1997\u2019s Pop album had so many electronic rhythms was because Larry had health issues. There have been other problems since, but since he\u2019s the least talkative member of the band, we don\u2019t hear much.<\/p>\n

Back and neck issues were why Larry wasn\u2019t with U2 when they played that 40-night stand at The Sphere<\/a> in Las Vegas was because he physically couldn\u2019t. He was still getting treatment. It\u2019s also probably why we haven\u2019t seen a new U2 album in forever.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s happening? In a statement this week, U2 says that he\u2019s doing better. Speaking at a charity event in Oklahoma, Bono summed up things like this about his bandmates: \u201cThey are in mighty form \u2014 and Larry has been just playing at his absolute best\u2026.his drumming is just incredible.\u201d (See below for video.)<\/p>\n

Larry has been in the studio over the last year working on new tracks, some with producer Brian Eno. He\u2019s also appeared with the band in public several times, but not in any real drumming capacity. (At one appearance back in May, was onstage when the band performing an acoustic version of \u201cAngel of Harlem,\u201d but he just tapped things out on the body of a guitar. That was the first time he\u2019d played with the band in five years.)<\/p>\n

So, reason for optimism, then. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behind a drummer is hard. Year after year, you\u2019re perched on your tailbone with all four limbs independently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5512,49,48,361,75,45411,88697,14138],"class_list":["post-239580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-back","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-larry-mullen-jr","tag-neck","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}