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Adam Clayton
real name Adam Charles Clayton
United Kingdom · b. 1960-03-13
Adam Clayton is credited on 1,588 releases across 425 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,588
Credits
425
Albums
6
Decades active
1,717
In collections
Biography
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Born: March 13, 1960, Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England.
British-Irish musician best known as the bassist of the Irish rock band U2.
During the early 1990s, he dated British supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,588 releases · 425 albums · active 1979–2025
- Performance · 1,632
- Other credits · 81
- Engineering · 10
- Production · 6
Studios: Windmill Lane Studios · Slane Castle · Hanover Quay Studios · The Town House
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
The Joshua Tree
1987
War
1983
The Unforgettable Fire
1984
Damn
2017
Achtung Baby
1991
Rattle And Hum
1988
Live "Under A Blood Red Sky"
1983
Boy
1980
All That You Can't Leave Behind
2000
October
1981
Zooropa
1993
How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
2004
Pop
1997
Dancing On The Ceiling
1986
Hopes And Fears
2004
Do They Know It's Christmas?
1984
American III: Solitary Man
2000
U218 Singles
2006
Behaviour
1990
Discography (The Complete Singles Collection)
1991
I Quit
2025
No Line On The Horizon
2009
The Best Of 1980-1990
1998
Songs Of Innocence
2014
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