Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton ( born March 13, 1960 in Chinnor / Oxfordshire ) is the bassist of the Irish rock band U2.
Biography
Clayton is the oldest child of Brian, a pilot of the Royal Air Force, and Jo Clayton. When he was five years old, the family moved to the Yellow Walls Road in Malahide near Dublin, where his sister Sarah Jane ( Sindy ) and his brother Sebastian was born.
Clayton attended the private boarding school St Columba 's College. He later moved to Mount Temple High School where he met Bono, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr.. He started as U2 bassist and band manager Paul McGuinness before. Clayton made headlines in August 1989 when he was arrested and charged in Dublin for possession of a small amount of cannabis. He prevented a conviction by a large charitable donation.
Adam Clayton in 1994 was engaged for 6 months with Naomi Campbell. On 10 April 2006, he was on the U2 website, the engagement to his long-time girlfriend Canadian Susie Smith, Associate Principal in the U2 management, known. However, the following year they announced their separation. Mid-January 2011 told the Irish Independent that Clayton and his French girlfriend had already become parents of a boy in early 2010. Shortly after this message was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the band U2.
On September 4, 2013 Adam Clayton married his longtime Brazilian girlfriend Mariana Teixeira De Carvalho in Dublin.
Music
In 1983 there was one of the few vocal performances by Clayton on "Endless Deep", a B side to U2's single " Sunday Bloody Sunday".
Adam and Bono worked in 1984 at the Africa charity single " Do They Know It 's Christmas? " with. Clayton has also worked on albums by Maria McKee and played bass for " Still Water" and " Jolie Louise " on Daniel Lanois album Acadie.
1994 Clayton has worked on the songs " These Days in at Open Book ," " Do not Forget About Me," " On Grafton Street" and " This Heart " Album Flyer by Nanci Griffith with Larry Mullen Jr..
In the published 1995 album Original Soundtracks No.. One can hear Adam talk the last verse of the song " Your Blue Room ".
In 1996, he took with his U2 bandmates Larry Mullen Jr., the remake for the soundtrack to the movie Mission: Impossible on.
Clayton is the winner of Best Bassist Award at the Orville H. Gibson Guitar Awards in 2001 and 2002. Besides his work as bassist for U2, he also played with music greats such as BB King and others.
Award
- Golden Globe for Mandela - The Long Walk to Freedom, awarded on January 12, 2014
Equipment
- Fender Precision Bass
- Fender Jazz Bass
- Gibson Thunderbird Bass
- Gibson Les Paul Triumph Bass
- Gibson Les Paul Studio 70's Bass, unknown model
- Gibson RD Artist Bass
- Lakland Joe Osborn Signature Bass
- Lakland Darryl Jones Signature Bass ( with Chi -Sonic pickups )
- Auerswald Custom Bass
- Epiphone Rivoli bass
- Status John Entwistle Buzzard Bass
- Reverso Warwick Bass
- Sadowsky Vintage Bass