 In 2016, "Rolling Stone" ranked Mullen the 96th-greatest drummer of all time.Lawrence Joseph Mullen Jr., the middle child and only son of Lawrence Joseph Mullen Sr. and Maureen (née Boyd) Mullen, was born on 31 October 1961 in Artane, Dublin, Ireland, and lived there, on Rosemount Avenue, until his twenties.His father was a civil servant and his mother a homemaker.