Cover |
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| Commercial
Release |
March, 1992 |
| Record
Label |
Island Records |
| Top
Chart Position |
US: 10, Canada: 3, UK: 7 |
| Album |
Achtung
Baby (1991) |
| TRACKLISTING |
- One
(4:36)
- Lady With The Spinning Head
(UV1) (3:54)
- Satellite Of Love (4:00)
- Night and Day (Steel String Remix) (7:00)
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| LINER NOTES |
One: Words by Bono. Music by
U2. Produced by Daniel Lanois with Brian Eno. Engineered by
Flood. Additional engineering by Robbie Adams. Assisted by
Shannon Strong. Additional keyboards by Brian Eno. Additional
guitar by Daniel Lanois.
Lady With the Spinning Head: Words by
Bono. Music by U2. Produced by Paul Barrett. Recorded by Ian
Bryan. Mixed by Paul Barrett. Assisted by Louise McCormick and
Fiach Cooling. Kyeboards and kay sound solo by Paul Barrett.
Recorded at STS Studios, Dublin.
Satellite of Love: Written by Lou Reed.
Produced by the Edge and Paul Barrett. Engineered and mixed by
Paul Barrett. Assisted by Louise McCormick. Additional backing
vocals: Gavin Friday. Recorder: Paul Barrett. Keyboards: Paul
Barrett and the Edge. Recorded at STS Studios, Dublin.
Night and Day (Steel String Remix):
Written by Cole Porter. Produced by the Edge and Paul Barrett.
Remixed by Youth. Remix production by Youth. Remix engineer:
Mary Kettle. Assisted by Sean Leonard and Ciaran Byrne. Remixed
at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.
Front Cover Image: David Wojnarowicz. Back
photography by Anton Corbijn. Design by Works Associates, Dublin.
The image on the cover is a photograph by the
American artist David Wojnarowicz, depicting how Indians hunted
buffalo by causing them to run off cliffs. Wojnarowicz
identifies himself and ourselves with the buffalo, pushed into
the unknown by forces we cannot control or even understand.
Wojnarowicz is an activist artist and writer whose work has
created controversy recently through its uncompromising
depiction of the artist's homosexuality, his infection by the
H.I.V. virus and the political crisis surrounding AIDS.
U2's royalties from this single will go to
AIDS research.
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| OTHER NOTES |
| One has become one of U2's most
recognizable songs to the public. A hit around the world, the
song became one of the songs regularily played on radio in the
days following the 9/11 attacks in the US. One is the song that
U2 found when they were having difficulty in Berlin moving
forward on the recording of the new album. There was talk of
whether the band wanted to continue, and after writing and
recording this song there was no doubt left that they would.
One has been played at each concert since the
Zoo TV tour which followed the release of Achtung Baby. Bono and
the Edge performed One live with Brian Eno at the Warchild
concert in 1995. That recording appears on the Miss
Sarajevo single as well as Pavarotti's For the Children of
Bosnia CD. In 1992 for MTV's Presidential Inaugeration, Larry
and Adam performed One with Mike Mills and Michael Stipe from
REM. They called this short lived group, Automatic Baby,
and the live performance was released on the Amazing Grace
compilation, as well as several harder to find compilations. A
live version of One recorded by the entire band in 1997 at the
Tibetan Freedom Concert was released on the concert album of
that event. Finally the 1997 performance in Mexico was captured
and released on the Hasta
La Vista Baby fan club only release.
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