U2 To Release 20th Anniversary Edition Of 'Achtung Baby'
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Friday, 05 August 2011 |
Written by Jon Stickler
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Twenty years ago, Bono described 'Achtung Baby 'as “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree”. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the nineties and of U2’s career.
Hitting its 20th Anniversary later this year on October 31st, 'Achtung Baby' is to undergo the re-release treatment to celebrate the twenty years since its release in 1991.
Recorded over six months at Hansa Studio in Berlin and Windmill Lane in Dublin, 'Achtung Baby' is U2’s seventh studio album. Produced by long time U2 collaborators, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno with Steve Lillywhite, 'Achtung Baby' was engineered by Flood and lead by 'The Fly'. The album spawned four other singles, 'Mysterious Ways', 'One', 'Even Better Than The Real Thing' and 'Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses'.
The 'Achtung Baby' archives have unearthed some previously unreleased songs from the recording sessions. With a raft of unreleased material; video, remixes, b-sides and documentary footage discovered, a full album of demo and early versions of the final 1991 tracklisting has also been revealed. Five physical editions including vinyl, CD, DVD and digital options will be made available. You can check out the details of all formats at www.achtungbaby.u2.com/
 Earlier this year U2 returned to Hansa Studio in Berlin to discuss 'Achtung Baby' in From The Sky Down, directed by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth). The film has been selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th and will be included in the anniversary edition of the album.NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
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