Post by Steve on Aug 11, 2023 21:20:23 GMT
Birth Name: Paul Hewson
Associated Acts: U2, Passengers
Voice Type: Belty Philanthropist
Recorded Vocal Range: C2-G♯5
{Questionable notes}
A5 ("Zoo Station" [2])
G5 ("Trip Through Your Wires" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
A5 ("Zoo Station" [2])
G5 ("Trip Through Your Wires" [1])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
Higher Notes:
G♯5 ("All I Want is You" live in Dublin 12/30/1989, "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" Jools Holland version, "Wire")
G5 ("Mysterious Ways" live in Rotterdam 1992, "Night and Day")
F♯5 ("Love Rescue Me", "Mercy", "One" live in Tacoma 04/21/1992, "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight", "Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World" live in London 1993, "Where the Streets Have No Name" live in Dublin 12/26/1989)
F5 ("All I Want is You" live in Dublin 12/30/1989, "Bad" live in Dublin 12/27/1989 & 12/31/1989, "Bullet the Blue Sky", "Heartland", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" Jools Holland version, "Is That All?", "Mysterious Ways" live, "One Tree Hill", "Spanish Eyes", "Where the Streets Have No Name" live in Dublin 12/26/1989, "With or Without You" live in Chicago 04/29/1987)
E5 ("All Because of You" alternative version, "Bad", "Beautiful Day", "Can't Help Falling In Love", "Elevation", "Hallelujah Here She Comes", "In a Lifetime", "In a Little While", "Magnificent", "A Man and a Woman", "Mercy", "North and South of the River" live at the Omagh Tribute 1998, "One", "Purple Heart", "Salome", "Save the Children", "Smile", "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of" live in Boston 2001, "Sweetest Thing", "Tomorrow", "Tryin to Throw Your Arms Around the World", "Vertigo" & "Vertigo/Highway to Hell" live in Melbourne 2006, "Window in the Skies", "Wire" outtake, "Xanax and Wine")
E♭5 ("Can't Help Falling In Love", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" Jools Holland version, "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Lemon", "Ordinary Love", "Red Light", "Silver and Gold" Sun City version, "This is Where You Can Reach Me Now", "Twilight" single version)
D5 ("11 O'Clock Tick Tock", "Beautiful Day", "Dancin' Shoes", "Discotheque", "Do You Feel Loved", "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", "Hallelujah", "Heartland", "Holy Joe", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" live in Miami 1997, "In a Little While", "Let the Good Times Roll", "Love You Like Mad", "North and South of the River" live Omagh Tribute 1998, "Numb", "One", "Purple Heart", "Running to Stand Still", "Scarlet", "So Cruel", "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" alternative version, "Spanish Eyes", "Stand Up Comedy", "Stateless", "Sweet Fire of Love", "Sweetest Thing", "The Unforgettable Fire", "Vertigo", "Walk On", "When the Stars Go Blue", "Where Did It All Go Wrong?", "Wild Honey", "With or Without You", "Xanax and Wine")
C♯5 ("All I Want is You/Never Tear Us Apart" live 1997/8, "An Cat Dubh", "Bad", "California (There is No End to Love)", "Dirty Day", "Drowning Man", "The Electric Co.", "Electrical Storm", "Even Better Than the Real Thing" live in Vancouver 4/23/1992, "Gone", "Hawkmoon 269", "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", "If God Will Send His Angels", "In The Name of the Father", "Is That All?", "Love Rescue Me", "Miss Sarajevo", "Mofo", "No Line on the Horizon", "North and South of the River", "Ordinary Love", "Please", "Red Light", "Satellite of Love", "Silver and Gold" Sun City version, "Sleep Like a Baby Tonight", "Smile", "So Cruel", "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", "Stand Up Comedy", "Stories for Boys", "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of", "Tomorrow", "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)", "Wake Up Dead Man", "The Wanderer", "Wire", "With a Shout (Jerusalem)")
C5 ("40" live 1989, "All I Want is You" live in Osaka 12/01/1989, "Angel of Harlem", "Another Day", "City of Blinding Lights", "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car", "Deep in the Heart", "Do You Feel Loved", "Even Better than the Real Thing", "The First Time", "The Fly" live in Boston 2001, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", "Happy Birthday", "Heartland", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight", "In a Lifetime", "Last Night on Earth", "Little Black Dress", "Maggie's Farm/Cold Turkey" live in East Rutherford 1986, "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)", "Never Let Me Go", "Numb", "One Tree Hill", "People Get Ready" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1987, "Red Hill Mining Town", "She's A Mystery to Me" live, "Staring at the Sun", "Sweet Fire of Love", "Testimony", "This is Where You Can Reach Me Now", "The Unforgettable Fire" master vocal, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses")
B4 ("All Along The Watchtower" live, "American Soul", "All Because of You", "All I Want is You" live in Dublin 12/26/1989, "An Cat Dubh", "Big Girls Are Best", "Boomerang II", "Breathe", "Children of the Revolution", "Crumbs From Your Table", "Desert of Our Love", "Dirty Day" remixes, "Discotheque", "Dreaming With Tears in My Eyes", "Electrical Storm", "Falling At Your Feet" Shine version, "The Fly", "Get on Your Boots", "Gloria", "God Part II", "Hallelujah Here She Comes", "Hawkmoon 269" live in Sydney 1989, "Helter Skelter" live 1987, "Holy Joe", "I Believe in Father Christmas", "I Fall Down", "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" live in New York 1987, "I Threw a Brick Through a Window", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight", "If God Will Send His Angels", "Indian Summer Sky", "Iris (Hold Me Close)", "Kids" live in Sydney 2006, "Kite", "Like a Song...", "Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way", "Maggie's Farm/Cold Turkey" live in East Rutherford 1986, "Magnificent", "Miami" live, "Miracle Drug", "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)", "Miss Sarajevo", "Mofo" live, "Native Son", "New Gold Dream" live in Glasgow 1/4/1985, "Never Let Me Go", "New Year's Day", "New York", "Night and Day", "No Line on the Horizon", "Pride (In the Name of Love)", "Purple Heart", "Red Light", "Rejoice", "Running to Stand Still" live, "Satellite of Love", "Silver and Gold", "A Sort of Homecoming", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Two Hearts Beat as One", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)", "Unchained Melody", "Vertigo", "Volcano", "Walk On", "When I Look at the World", "When Love Comes to Town", "Wild Honey", "Window in the Skies", "Wire", "With a Shout (Jerusalem)", "Your Blue Room", "You're the Best Thing About Me")
B♭4 ("All Along the Watchtower" live in San Francisco 1987, "Another Time, Another Place", "Babyface", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "Cartoon World" live in Dublin 02/26/1980, "Cedars of Lebanon", "The Cry/The Electric Co." live in Boston 1981, "Desire", "Drowning Man", "Elvis Presley and America", "Falling At Your Feet", "Fire", "The Fly" live, "Gloria", "Gone", "Hawkmoon 269", "Help" live 1987, "Helter Skelter" live 1987, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" live, "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", "I Will Follow" live, "Is That All?", "Last Night on Earth", "Like a Song...", "Lemon", "Love is Blindness", "Miami", "Mysterious Ways", "New Year's Day", "One Tree Hill", "Raised by Wolves", "A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel", "Satellite of Love", "Saturday Night", "Seconds", "A Sort of Homecoming" Daniel Lanois remix, "Stand By Me" live 1992, "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Trip Through Your Wires", "The Troubles" alternative version, "Twilight", "When the Stars Go Blue" live in Dublin 2002, "Where the Streets Have No Name" live in Dublin 12/26/1989, "With a Shout (Jerusalem)", "With or Without You" live, "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" demo)
A4 ("All Because of You", "All I Want is You" live 1997/8, "Angel of Harlem", "Bad", "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew", "Beautiful Day", "The Blackout", "Blow Your House Down", "Book of Your Heart", "California (There is No End to Love)", "Cedarwood Road", "A Celebration", "Crumbs From Your Table", "A Day Without Me", "Deep in the Heart", "Desert of Our Love", "Electrical Storm", "Elvis Ate America", "Even Better than the Real Thing", "Fast Cars", "Fez-Being Born", "Flower Child", "Get on Your Boots", "Get Out of Your Own Way", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Heartland", "I Threw a Brick Through a Window", "I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight", "In a Lifetime", "In a Little While", "Indian Summer Sky", "Iris (Hold Me Close)", "Kite", "Lights of Home", "Love and Peace or Else", "Love is All We Have Left", "Lucifer's Hands", "Magnificent", "Mercy", "Miracle Drug", "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)","Moment of Surrender", "Mothers of the Disappeared", "New York", "No Line on the Horizon", "Original of the Species", "Paint It Black", "People Get Ready" live on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1987, "Promenade", "Rise Up", "Save the Children", "Scarlet", "She's A Mystery to Me" live, "The Showman (Little More Better)", "So Cruel", "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own", "A Sort of Homecoming", "Spanish Eyes", "Stand Up Comedy", "Staring at the Sun", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of", "Sweet Fire of Love", "The Three Sunrises", "Tomorrow", "Trash, Trampoline and the Party Girl", "Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop)", "The Troubles", "The Unforgettable Fire", "Vertigo", "Volcano", "Walk On", "Walk to the Water", "Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)", "When I Look at the World", "Where The Streets Have No Name", "White as Snow", "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses", "Window in the Skies", "Wire", "With or Without You", "Yahweh", "You're the Best Thing About Me", "Zoo Station")
G♯4 ("40", "All Along the Watchtower" live, "All I Want is You", "Another Day", "Are You Gonna Wait Forever", "Big Girls Are Best", "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", "City of Blinding Lights", "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car" live 1993, "A Day Without Me", "The Electric Co.", "Every Breaking Wave", "Gloria", "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", "Hallelujah Here She Comes", "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" & "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" live, "I Am the Walrus", "I Fall Down", "I'm Not Your Baby", "Invisible', "Is That All?", "Kite", "Last Night on Earth", "Lemon", "Like a Song...", "The Little Things That Give You Away", "Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way", "Magnificent" live on Good Morning America 2009, "Miss Sarajevo" live, "Mofo", "Mysterious Ways", "New Day", "No Line on the Horizon", "One" live, "Ordinary Love", "Out of Control", "The Playboy Mansion", "Raised by Wolves", "The Refugee", "Running to Stand Still" live, "Save the Children", "Saturday Night", "Shadows and Tall Trees", "Smile", "Song for Someone", "Staring at the Sun" live, "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of", "Sunday Bloody Sunday", "Surrender", "Testimony", "Theme From Let's Go Native", "Touch", "The Troubles" alternative version, "Two Hearts Beat as One", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)", "Unchained Melody", "Until the End of the World" live, "Wake Up Dead Man", "Zooropa")
G4 ("11 O'Clock Tick Tock", "Acrobat", "American Soul", "Angel of Harlem", "Blow Your House Down", "Breathe", "Cedarwood Road", "Deep in the Heart", "Do You Feel Loved", "A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates", "Elevation", "Exit", "The Fly" live, "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", "The Hands That Built America", "In God's Country", "Joy", "Landlady", "Love and Peace or Else", "Love You Like Mad", "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)", "Night and Day", "New York", "October", "One", "Original of the Species", "Promenade", "Red Flag Day", "Salome", "Shadows and Tall Trees", "The Showman (Little More Better)", "Staring at the Sun", "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", "Summer of Love", "Summer Rain", "This is Where You Can Reach Me Now", "Trip Through Your Wires", "The Troubles", "Volcano", "Walk to the Water", "Wave of Sorrow (Birdland)", "What's Happened to You?", "White as Snow", "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses", "Wild Honey", "Window in the Skies", "Yahweh")
Lower Notes:
D3 ("13 (There is a Light)", "Always", "American Soul", "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew", "Beautiful Day", "The Blackout", "Deep in the Heart", "Do You Feel Loved", "Give Me Back My Job", "Heartland", "I Believe in Father Christmas", "Landlady", "Lights of Home", "Love is All We Have Left", "Miami", "Miracle Drug", "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)", "MLK", "Night and Day", "Peace on Earth", "Red Hill Mining Town", "Rise Up", "Slide Away", "A Sort of Homecoming", "Summer Rain", "Walk On", "White as Snow", "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses", "Wild Honey", "With or Without You")
C♯3 ("All Along The Watchtower" live, "All I Want is You", "Babyface", "Bad" live in Birmingham 1984, "Dirty Day", "Do You Feel Loved" live in Las Vegas 1997, "Drowning Man", "Every Breaking Wave", "If God Will Send His Angels", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress", "Last Night on Earth", "MLK" live, "One Step Closer", "Please", "Satellite of Love", "Some Days Are Better Than Others", "A Sort of Homecoming" live, "Unchained Melody", "Van Diemen's Land" acoustic version, "Wake Up Dead Man", "Where the Streets Have No Name" live 1997/8, "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" live, "With or Without You" live)
C3 ("Acrobat", "Do You Feel Loved", "Don't Come Knocking", "The First Time", "Grace", "North and South of the River" live Omagh Tribute 1998, "October", "Peace on Earth", "Promenade", "Spanish Eyes", "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", "This is Where You Can Reach Me Now", "The Troubles", "Yahweh")
B2 ("13 (There is a Light)", "Air Suspension", "All Along the Watchtower" live in Dublin 12/27/1989, "All Because of You", "Beautiful Day", "Can't Help Falling In Love", "Cedarwood Road", "Discotheque" & "Discotheque" new mix, "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Every Breaking Wave", "Heartland", "Kite", "Lady With the Spinning Head (UV1)", "Love is All We Have Left", "Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way", "Mercy", "Neon Lights", "The Playboy Mansion", "Running to Stand Still", "She's a Mystery to Me" live, "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)", "The Wanderer" live at A Tribute to Johnny Cash 2005, "With or Without You")
B♭2 ("Babyface", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "Discotheque" live in Las Vegas 1997, "A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates", "Elvis Presley and America", "Falling At Your Feet", "Hawkmoon 269", "Into the Groove/Mysterious Ways" live in Miami 1997, "Love is Blindness" live 1993, "Perfect Day", "Please" live in Leeds 1997, "Running to Stand Still" live, "Slow Dancing", "Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad", "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" live, "Vertigo", "Zooropa")
A2 ("Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience", "Children of the Revolution", "Discotheque", "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Exit", "Fast Cars", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Indian Summer Sky", "Iris (Hold Me Close)", "Miami", "Mothers of the Disappeared", "Never Let Me Go", "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" alternative version, "Staring at the Sun", "Stranger in a Strange Land", "Summer Wine" live in Dublin 2002, "That's Life", "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World", "Until the End of the World", "Walk to the Water", "With or Without You")
G♯2 ("Angels Too Tied to the Ground", "Auld Lang Syne/Where the Streets Have No Name" live in Dublin 12/31/1989, "Big Girls Are Best", "Can't Help Falling in Love", "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car", "Dancing Queen" live 1992, "Elvis Presley and America", "I'm Not Your Baby", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" Jools Holland version, "Mofo", "Mothers of the Disappeared" acapella version, "One" live in Modena 1995, "Pop Muzik", "Running to Stand Still/Dirty Old Town" live in Dublin December 1989, "She's A Mystery to Me" live Gothenburg 2009, "Slug", "The Troubles" alternative version, "Wake Up Dead Man", "With or Without You" live)
G2 ("American Soul", "Babyface", "Book of Your Heart", "Crumbs From Your Table", "Fast Cars", "Grace", "Happiness is a Warm Gun", "Heartland", "New York", "North and South of the River" live at the Omagh Tribute 1998, "Summer Wine" live in Dublin 2002)
F♯2 ("Babyface" live 1993, "Dancing Queen" live 1992, "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", "Falling At Your Feet", "Hanging on the Telephone" live in London 08/12/1993, "I'm Not Your Baby", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress", "Love is All We Have Left", "Mofo", "Moon River" live in Leeds 1993, "Pop Muzik", "Slow Dancing", "The Troubles" alternative version, "Walk On", "Your Blue Room")
F2 ("Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)")
E2 ("If You Wear That Velvet Dress", "New York", "Silver and Gold")
E♭2 ("Big Girls Are Best", "Cedars of Lebanon", "Falling At Your Feet")
D2 ("Beautiful Ghost/Introduction to Songs of Experience")
C♯2 ("If You Wear That Velvet Dress")
C2 ("Hallelujah")
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*Underlines mark notes in backing vocals or otherwise muffled/obscured in the mix.
*Blue marks clear/soft falsetto notes.
*Italics mark spoken notes.
One of the most recognizable frontmen in rock, Bono is the singer for of course Ireland's biggest rock band, U2. Not only does he possess one of the most distinct belty voices in the genre, but also has a very unique and charismatic falsetto. Initially he demonstrated a very youthful and energetic sound in the band's early albums up until "The Unforgettable Fire" and as the 80s progressed, showed off more powerful belts which gave way to some every emotional performances that many revere him for today. As the band headed into the 90s, Bono began shying away from this and gave more use to his Prince-like "fat lady" falsetto (a term dubbed by himself), notably heard in "Numb" and "Lemon" and the like, while not losing any of the poignancy or charisma of his earlier works. In addition, he also developed a very strong crooner-esque lower range which he definitely uses to great effect on tracks such as "Your Blue Room" and "If Your Wear That Velvet Dress". Nowadays due to age, he tends settle more in the midrange however is still able to let out some powerful performances when he wants (as can be heard in "Raised By Wolves" and "Vertigo").
{Album ranges}U2:
Boy (1980): E♭3-B4-C♯5
October (1981): A2-C♯5-F5
War (1983): C♯3-B4-E♭5
The Unforgettable Fire (1984): G♯2-E5-G♯5
The Joshua Tree (1987): A2-C5-F5
Rattle and Hum (1988): G2-F5-F♯5
Achtung Baby (1991): A2-C5-E5
Zooropa (1993): G2-B♭4-E♭5
Pop (1997): C♯2-B4-D5
All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000): E2-B4-E5
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004): G2-B4-E5
No Line of the Horizon (2009): E♭2-B4-E5
Songs of Innocence (2014): A2-B♭4-F♯5
Songs of Experience (2017): F♯2-A4-B4
Passengers:
Original Soundtracks 1 (1995): F♯2-G♯4-C♯5
Boy (1980): E♭3-B4-C♯5
October (1981): A2-C♯5-F5
War (1983): C♯3-B4-E♭5
The Unforgettable Fire (1984): G♯2-E5-G♯5
The Joshua Tree (1987): A2-C5-F5
Rattle and Hum (1988): G2-F5-F♯5
Achtung Baby (1991): A2-C5-E5
Zooropa (1993): G2-B♭4-E♭5
Pop (1997): C♯2-B4-D5
All That You Can't Leave Behind (2000): E2-B4-E5
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004): G2-B4-E5
No Line of the Horizon (2009): E♭2-B4-E5
Songs of Innocence (2014): A2-B♭4-F♯5
Songs of Experience (2017): F♯2-A4-B4
Passengers:
Original Soundtracks 1 (1995): F♯2-G♯4-C♯5
Thread originally by Sandblasted . See this thread for more information.
