The Track That Changed My Life: The Script's Glen Power on U2's 'Where The Streets Have No Name'

Music
22 Jul 22

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Glen Power:

I know it’s a cliché, but when I saw the video of U2 on the rooftop in LA, I decided that’s what I wanted to do. I went to my career guidance teacher and said “I want to be a musician” and he said, “Well, that’s a hobby not a job.” I was like, “No, no, no, U2 on a rooftop in Los Angeles – that’s what I’m going to be doing in ten years’ time or something like it.”

I went back to the school with a copy of our first album. He’d retired by that time, but I got it to him with a note saying, “Dear Sir, thanks for all your advice years ago. I’m so glad I never took it, love Glen from The Script.”

When we first went to LA as a band, Mark who knows the city well, drove me all around it, and pointed out the rooftop in question. That video was a defining moment in terms of U2 being from here and becoming the biggest band in the world. I was told “No” by that teacher, but how many people had told them “No”? They taught me that the only limitations are in your head.