Larry Mullen Jr
Simon Russell/Getty Images for Left BehindU2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr He was diagnosed With dyscalculia, making it difficult to count music bars.
“I've always known that there's something not particularly right about the way I deal with numbers. I'm numerically challenged,” the 63-year-old Mullen recently told Sunday Times Radio. “I recently realized that I have dyscalculia, which is a sub-version of dyslexia. So I can't count, and I can't add.”
Dyscalculia is a learning disability that affects an individual's ability to understand arithmetic operations, tell time, or read music, according to the Cleveland Clinic. For Mullen, the diagnosis explains why his face appears sore during concerts. (Mullen co-founded U2 with Bono, Edge and Adam Clayton Back to school In their home country Ireland.)
“When people watch me play sometimes, they say, ‘You look sore.’ “I’m in pain because I’m trying to count the bars,” Mullen added. “I had to find ways to do it — counting bars is like climbing Mount Everest.”
Mullen struggled with numbers for years until he was recently diagnosed with dyscalculia. He will also cover the journey in the future left behind documentary.
“You know, it's a political movement in a kind of weird way,” he said. Delivery time From the document last month. “I was introduced to the film through… Chris Farrell. He and I had done some work together before, and he was working with us Anna (Tommy) On this before he and I get involved.
“He showed me a very early cut of the film, and he knew I had a son who was dyslexic, and he just asked me, 'Would I be interested in helping him?'” Mullen added, “and that's how it started. It's been about a year and a half now.”
Larry Mullen Jr
Chris McKay/Getty ImagesMullen and his long-time partner, Anne Acheson, Three children share: Aaron, 29 years old, Ava, 25 years old, and Ezra, 23 years old.
“I brought the documentary to my son, who has dyslexia, and he watched the movie with me,” Mullen added to Deadline, without mentioning the son who has learning difficulties. “I was seeing how he was reacting to it, and I just came up with an idea of his strength and how he was feeling. I took the idea literally, went into the studio and recorded what I thought he was feeling right now.”
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He continued: Oh, he laughs at me and says: Oh, you think you understand how I feel. And I say, “Well, I'm imagining what it's like.” I was inspired, and that's where the idea and music came from.
In addition to production left behindMullen wrote the songs for the soundtrack alongside Gayle.
