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After a decade of earnestness in the ’80s , Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen called BS on themselves, rebooting their sound and image for the '90s age of irony.
Instead, U2 became as big as ever, and kept scoring hits.
When the whole sardonic thing stopped working for them, at the turn of the millennium , they went back to anthemic U2 .
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