| Bono: Vocals & Guitar. The Edge:
Guitar, Keyboards & Vocals. Adam Clayton: Bass Guitar.
Larry Mullen: Drums, Percussion & Programming. Paul
McGuinness: Manager.
Studio Crew: Sam O'Sullivan: Drum technician
and crew co-ordinator. Fraser McAlister: Guitar technician. Des
Broadbery: Programming keyboard and guitar technician. Stuart
Morgan: Bass guitar technician. Colm "Rab" McAlister:
Studio tech. Joe O'Herlihy: Monitoring. David Herbert: Studio
Manager. Gavin Friday: Consulting Poptician. Anne Louise
Kelly: Album Production Manager. Candida Bottaci: Album
Production Assistant. Suzanne Doyle: Studio Band Management
Associate.
Recorded in Hanover - Dublin, Windmill Lane
Recording Studios - Dublin, South Beach Studios - Miami, The
Works - Dublin.
Catering by Restaurant Tosca: Norman Hewson.
Aongus Hanley, Jeff "The Chef" O'Toole< Elenor
Walsh, Dominic Lombard. The Clarence Hotel: Michael Martin.
Principle Management Dublin: Anne-Louise Kelly, Sheila Roche,
Barbara Galavan, Trevor Bowen, Suzanne Doyle, Candida Bottaci,
Susie Smith, Cecilia Coffey, Cillian Guidera, Susan Hunter,
Sandra Long, Sally-Anne McKeown, Aislinn Meehan, Brigid Mooney,
Suzanne O'Dea, Anne O'Leary, Eileen Osborne, Holly Peters, Joy
Warner, Gerry Walters, George Augusta. Principle Management NY:
Keryn Kaplan, Bess Burke, Kathy Araskog.
Produced by Flood. Additional production by
Howie B, Steve Osborne. Recorded by Mark "Spike"
Stent, Howie B, Alan Moulder. Mixed by Mark "Spike"
Stent, Howie B, Steve Osborne. Engineering Assistant: Rob Kirwan.
Post production and supervision: Cheryl Engles
/ Partial Productions Inc.
Designed at ABA Dublin by Shaughn McGrath and
Steve Averill. Treatments by Shaughn McGrath. Cover
Photography: Anton Corbijn. Interior photography by: Anton
Corbijn, Stephane Sednaoui and Anja Grabert. Snapshots: Nellee
Hooper. "Popmart Art" by Willie Williams and Mark
Fisher.
Dedicated to Bill Graham 1951-1996.
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| After Zooropa there passed a very
long time without a 'U2' album. It was almost four years
between U2 albums, but that break was filled with the Passengers
project. The album was critically panned, and regarded by
many as not one of their finest efforts. The electronica
sounds were perhaps a little too ahead of their time.
Even the band itself was unhappy with the
final result. This stemmed from the fact that the Popmart
tour was planned before the album was completed. Due to
the scheduling of these dates, when the spring of 1997 arrived,
the band had no choice but to release an album they felt wasn't
quite finished. Last minute recording, remixing etc. also
cut into rehersal time for the new tour, and resulted in many
shakey performances at the start of the tour.
The album, however, has some of U2's finest
song and lyric writing, which could be better appreciated as the
continual touring on these songs strengthened their performances.
Single versions of many of the songs would be rerecorded as the
tour progressed for release. The overall audience and
critical reaction probably was a major factor in returning to a
radio friendly sound on All That You Can't Leave Behind, an
album that Larry once mentioned should have been the one called
Pop.
In Canada, the release of the album came early.
On February 28, 1997 a chain of record stores in Western Canada,
A&B Sound, put the album out for sale five days early.
This lead to other chains also putting the album on sale early.
Polygram / Universal took action against the chain which
released the album early witholding new releases for a time.
It was a pleasant surprise to find the album in my hands a few
days early.
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