Is U2 breaking up? Why is Larry Mullen Jr not playing Las Vegas?

Irish rock band, U2 is not breaking it. The band is made up of Larry Mullen Jr., Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Ivan McCormick, and Dick Evans.

However, the co-founder, Larry Mullen Jr. is taking one whole year off his career due to injuries at the knees, elbows, and neck. Therefore, he is not playing at the limited concert in September 2023 to open MSG Sphere at The Venetian in the Las Vegas Valley dubbed U2:UV Achtung Baby Live at the Sphere.

“My body is not what it used to be physically. Like next year, I won’t be performing live next year. I don’t know what the band’s plan is. There’s talk of all kinds of things,” Mullen said in 2022.

Mullen Jr. founded U2 on 25 September 1976 in his kitchen in Artane, along with Paul ‘Bono’ Hewson, David ‘The Edge’ Evans, and his brother, Dik, Adam Clayton, as well as Mullen’s friends Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin.