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U2’s Adam Clayton wowed viewers on The Late Late Show while showing off a new post-lockout look, with some banter that he looks like Santa Claus.
He joined Ryan Tubridy at the RTÉ studio in a tribute to Irish folk music legend Sharon Shannon.
While Clayton joined Sharon along with other well-known Irish musicians, including Steve Wickham and Mundy, viewers took to Twitter to talk about Adam’s makeover after the shutdown.
With a long white beard and longer white hair, users wondered if he was trying to imitate Santa Claus as he entered the festive season.
One Twitter user wrote: “Adam Clayton is obviously making Santa Zoom calls to make ends meet this year #LateLateShow.”
While another said, “Will Adam Clayton audition to be the #latelateshow Santa Claus this year?”
And a third wrote: “Adam Clayton is the new Santa Claus. Looking good. “
On the show, the bassist talked about how he met traditional musician Sharon at Winkles bar in Galway.
“They definitely convinced me to go to Winkles to meet a girl and Philip King, Dónal, John Dunford, John Kennedy had told me ‘you have to come see Sharon, she is going through something new’ and I said ‘I’m in’.
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“I had been in America for a year or two and I had just come back, I think it was 1989 and I wanted to go to the country and I wanted to find this music, I wanted to find this girl.
“(When I got there) I knew I was no match for the accordion. It was a great group of people having fun. And in Sharon’s hands, music comes to life, that can’t be argued and that’s why she has made 20 albums for 30 years and that’s why she continues to make albums, and that’s why the new album is a great album. “
The U2 legend turned to Sharon and encouraged her to keep playing guitar.
He added: “I finally got on stage for a couple of songs at the Winkles hotel. So that was my dream come true. “
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