| Bono: Vocals & Guitar. The Edge:
Guitar, Keyboards & Vocals. Adam Clayton: Bass Guitar. Larry
Mullen: Drums & Percussion. Paul McGuinness: Manager. Studio
Crew: Joe O'Herlihy: Monitoring. Des Broadbery: Keyboard &
Guitar Technician. Fraser McAlister: Bass & Guitar
Technician. Sam O'Sullivan: Drum Technician. Anne-Louise Kelly:
Album Production Manager.
Recorded in: Hansa Ton Studios Berlin, Dog
Town Dublin, S.T.S. Dublin, Windmill Lane Studios Dublin.
Recording Facilities and Co-Ordination Berlin : Joe O'Herlihy
and Dennis Sheehan. Recording Facilities and Co-Ordination
Dublin : Terry Cromer, Audio Engineering Dublin.
Principle Management Dublin - Anne-Louise
Kelly, Barbara Galavan, Jackie Bennet, Eileen Long, David
Herbert, Maria Duffy, Brigid Mooney, Anne O'Leary, Cillian
Guidera, Liz Devlin, Cecilia Coffey. Principle Management NY -
Ellen Darst, Keryn Kaplan, Sheila Roche, Bess Burke, Lisa
Fiscoff.
Mastering by Arnie Acosta / A & M
Mastering Studios, LA. Digital Editing by Stewart Whitmore / A
& M Mastering Studios, LA. Quality Control Cheryl Engels / A
& M Studios, LA. Thanks to: Yamaha Drums, Paiste, Pro-Mark
and James Howe Industries for Strings. Daniel Lanois and Brian
Eno appear courtesy of Opal/Warner Brothers.
Photography by Anton Corbijn. Design by Steve
Averill and Shaughn McGrath - Works Associates (Dublin). Label
Illustration by Charlie Whisker. Photographed by Richie Smith.
European Language Translations Ltd. Dublin/Eileen Pearson.
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| Achtung Baby was released after a
long period away out of the public eye for U2. Rumours had
it that they were recording something completely different,
something which was dance music, or that they had broken up and
there was no album coming. What the public got was
something which was described as "the sound of four men
chopping down the Joshua Tree". Very different from
anything that had come before sonically, but still recognizable
as U2.
During the recording of the album, seven CDs
worth of material was stolen from the studio, which quickly
became available as bootlegs before the release of the album.
The best of the seven discs worth of material was released as a
three CD set called Salome. The other discs were mainly
filled with instrumental tracks, and the sound of Larry working
on beats.
There was some concern over the cover of the
album. On the back is a picture of Adam Clayton with full
frontal nudity. Due to the concern in some regions, the
design team at Works Associates designed an 'X' for placement
over Adam's "member" and had it sent to production
facilities. In some cases in the USA a green shamrock was
used instead of which the design team was unaware.
Although sounding like nothing that had come
before, the album went on to be one of U2's most successful, and
launched a very successful two year tour, and five successful
singles.
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