To fans Paul has been labeled as the fifth member of U2, he has guided the boys career from a local bar band to a global machine. When Paul was asked is this the end ? ” No, and I think I would have heard. Not at all. They are always working on the next record.”
Ok, so how did this rumor start ? Bono gave an interview to Rolling Stone where he hinted that they may part company. “Its quite likely you might hear from us next year but it’s equally possible that you won’t. The band may have finally run its course.
Ether Paul or Bono have it right. In the end it will come down to the creative power of the band to choose to return. Lets face it 360 Tour was longer then anyone expected and the idea of taking a break may be just what they need to come back stronger and ready to take on another large tour. One thing is for sure. Right now its all about Actung Baby !
from my pal, Phyllis Jones. It seems as though a lifetime has passed by since that fateful day in 1991, but in others it hasn’t. I can still remember the weather. The overcast sky hung low. There was dampness in the air. All the trees had given up their leaves in preparation for winter. As for me, life was good albeit I was still working retail and I had issues with my career. Luckily, nothing disastrous in my life had happened. It would be a year and a half before my stepfather would pass away and Mom was quite a ways away from being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. So, I can say I was in a good spot. More importantly, hope was in the air as a new U2 release was tucked under my arm as I left the record store.
– the album where they traded in earnest uplift for funk, noise, sex, irony and self-doubt. So how does this lavish look back square with the band’s old lyric “You glorify the past when the future dries up”?
,” he says, before acknowledging the unlikelihood of that scenario: “I doubt that.”
punched themselves out of a tight corner – after 1988’s 
and album helped convince some music fans they were hopelessly solemn and pompous – suggested a way forward. “Ironically, being forced to look back at this period reminds me of how we might re-emerge for the next phase,” says Bono. “And that doesn’t mean that you have to wear some mad welder’s goggles or dress up in women’s clothing. Reinvention is much deeper than that.”
director Davis Guggenheim. The movie, which opened the Toronto International Film Festival, makes it clear that trying to find a new sound led to what the Edge calls “a potentially career-ending series of difficulties.” In tracing the creation of “One,” the film also reveals that lyrics such as “We’re one, but we’re not the same” are as much about the band’s fraught brotherhood as anything else. “I thought [Achtung Baby] was a really supercool moment in a not always supercool life,” Bono says with a laugh, “and [Guggenheim] goes and makes an uncool film about us!”
and Einstürzende Neubauten, while also noting the fusion of rock and dance coming out of Manchester, with groups like the Stone Roses. “I always remember the intense embarrassment when I happened to be in a club and a generous-spirited DJ would put on one of our tunes from the War album,” the Edge says. “It was so evident we had never been thinking about how it would go down in clubs. So we just wanted to stretch ourselves in the area of rhythm and backbeat and groove.”
, just as Germany was reunifying – and as co-producer Brian Eno wrote, aesthetic guidelines soon emerged: “Buzzwords on this record were trashy, throwaway, dark, sexy and industrial.” “We found it was more interesting to start from an extreme place,” says the Edge.
,” followed by a blast of Larry Mullen Jr.’s drums distorted almost beyond recognition. “Some of the extreme sounds weren’t achieved with sophisticated, outboard equipment, dialed in carefully,” says the Edge. Instead, they simply overloaded their vintage recording console. “It was literally, ‘What happens if you try to go to 11?’” says the guitarist.
and some books and an acoustic guitar.”