Since ancient times, the sound of drums has prevailed at human rites of passage: war drums, funeral drums, marching drums, drums of life, and drums of death. It was the call of a “different drummer” that guided Henry David Thoreau. Martin Luther King asked to he remembered as a “drum major for peace.” If Martin Luther King is the drum major, U2 ’s Larry Mullen, Jr., is the drummer. On “Pride (In The Name Of Love)” from the Irish rock group’s latest album, T h e Unforgettable Fire, Mullen pounds out a memorial to the fallen man of peace that stands with the weight and enduring strength of granite, and the simplicity of life and death. Voted Number One in the Up & Coming category of MD’s 1985 Readers Poll, Larry Mullen, Jr., is a different drummer. A universal blend of past and future, East and West, primitive and classical, […]