Do you remember the first pop song you ever heard? Bono says that he does – and it changed his life forever.
The U2 frontman remembers hearing The Beatles’ “I Want To Hold Your Hand” when he was just three years old – calling it his “earliest memory of music”.
“I was three years old and in the back garden of 10 Cedarwood Road…I associate the song with the smell of freshly cut grass as I was lying on my back on the damp green patch after my Da had cut the lawn…Beside me was a lawn mower with green-stained rotors that had to be repaired. My brother Norman could fix it…he could fix anything,” wrote Bono.
Bono once listed the song as one of “60 songs that saved my life”, explaining “The song on the radio felt like life force…like I was for the first time conscious that I was alive and that being alive was a really, really great idea!”
Watch the Beatles perform “I Want To Hold Your Hand” below.
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