| Bono: Vocals and Guitar. The
Edge: Guitar, Piano, Synthesizers and Vocals. Adam Clayton:
Bass Guitars. Larry Mullen Jnr: Drums, Percussion, and Backing
Vocals. Paul McGuinness: Manager. Studio Crew: Joe O'Herlihy:
Monitoring. Des Broadbery: Programming, Keyboard and Guitar
Technician. Fraser McAlister: Guitar Technician (Bono). Sam O'Sullivan:
Drum Technician. Stuart Morgan: Bass Guitar Technician. Dallas
Schoo: Guitar Technician (The Edge). Colm "Rab"
McAllister: Studio Tecnician. Suzanne Doyle: Studio
Production Manager. Anne-Louise Kelly: Album Production
Manager.
Recorded in The Factory, Windmill Lane Studios
and Westland Studios, Dublin. Additional Recording
Facilities: Terry Cromer & Julian Douglas, Audio
Engineering, Dublin. Produced by: Flood, Brian Eno and The
Edge. Mixed by: Flood and Robbie Adams. Engineered
by: Flood and Robbie Adams. Music: U2. Words: Bono (Except
"Dirty Day" Bono and the Edge, "Numb" The
Edge.) Recorded in Dublin, March - May 1993. Album Cover
Design by Works Associates (Dublin) Art direction by Steve
Averill. Design and Computer treatments by Brian Williams.
Baby Illustration by Shaughn McGrath. Origina baby
illustration by Charlie Whisker.
Principle Management Dublin: Anne-Louise Kelly
(Director), Barbara Galavan, Eileen Long, David Herbert, Brigid
Mooney, Candida Bottaci, Sandra Long, Aislinn Meehan, Anne O'Leary,
Cecillia Coffey, Cillian Guilders, Liz Devlin, Gerry Watters.
Principle Management New York: Keryn Kaplan (Director), Shiela
Roche, Bess Dulany.
Thanks To: Osmond J. Kilkenny III, Brian
Murphy and all at O.J. Kilkenny & Co., Dennis and Lindsey
Sheehan, Dermot Lawless and all the Dermots, Mark Holmes, Marc
Coleman, Keith Wootton, Eric Humphreys, Yvonne McMahon, Killian
McGowan, Brian Masterson, Catherine Rutter, Johnny Cash, Regine
Moylett, Paul Wasserman, Bill Flanagan, Bob Koch, Nigel Sweeney,
Rock It Cargo, Sebastian, Aislinn, Hollie, Arran, Blue, Elaine,
Ali, Jordan, Eve and the Temple Hillbillies, A.J. Rankin, Ina
Meibach, George Regis, David Landsman, Frank Barsalona, Barbara
Skydel, Ian Flooks, Katherine Maynard, Barry Slattery, Joe
Casely-Hayford, Chris Blackwell, Wim Winders, Fintan Fitzgerald,
Mark Neale, Gerry MacArthur, Richard Kendrick, Des, Ulrick,
Patricia, Katherine and all at Omega Air, Missy and JJ.
The Freedom of Zooropa is awarded to Willie Mannion and Rob
Kirwan. Special thanks to Ellen Darst and Gavin Friday.
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| Zooropa was U2's 9th album. The
album was started in March 1993 as an EP. U2 were on a
break in between legs of the worldwide Zoo TV tour, and they
wanted to release a short collection of new songs, having mined Achtung
Baby of singles. Recording went well, and before they
knew it they had a collection of 10 songs which made up the
album. Even more suprising was the start they had on
several other songs which would not appear until 1997's Pop
Album. You can see evidence of these in the cover of
Zooropa, where the words, "Wake Up De", "ET Dress",
and "Iss Me Kill M" speak of three songs worked on
during these sessions that would appear later, "Wake Up
Dead Man", "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" and
"Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me".
The covers for the album were designed by
Works Associates. Recording in the middle of the tour, the
sleeve of the album was left in the hands of the desgin team,
and was going for a feeling of saturation and hyper reality.
They were given an early track listing so that they could play
with computerized treatments of the lettering for the cover.
Alternate ttitles worked on for cover designs included
"Dog" and "God U2 Dog".
The album, a suprise for a band in the midst
of a world tour, went on to be quite sucessful. It spawned
three commercial singles, and remains an album that is spoken
highly of by many U2 fans.
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