Dan Eliot ([email protected])
Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:33:34 -0700
>Figure it'll take at least six
>months for U2 to count the
>fifty million simoleons the
>group raked when it signed a
>record deal calling for the
>release of three "best of"
>albums. By then, U2 should be
>ready to get back into the
>business of making music --
>and more money.
>
>When that happens, U2 will likely look to the producer
>tandem that brought the Irish quartet many of its greatest
>hits during the Eighties and early Nineties. Though
>nothing's written in stone, last Saturday in Dublin the band
>took a preliminary meeting with Brian Eno and Daniel
>Lanois, the two architects behind 1991's Achtung Baby,
>1988's The Joshua Tree and 1984's The Unforgettable
>Fire, three of the band's biggest commercial successes.
>
>The pair also teamed up for U2's experimental Zooropa
>(1993) and Eno last worked on the equally enigmatic
>Passengers: Original Soundtracks 1 (1995), which
>featured the producer and all members of U2. Last year's
>commercial disappointment Pop was produced by Flood.
>
>According to a source close to Lanois, the producers and
>U2 will meet again some time next month to discuss
>possible recording locations and recording times for the
>project. Right now Lanois is on vacation and Eno is busy
>producing James' forthcoming album, which should be
>completed by the end of November. A source close to
>Eno says production on a new U2 album won't begin until
>at least March.
>
>"We imagine they'll work on it through next year," says
>the source close to Eno, who added it could take them
>through the summer to complete the album.
>
>BLAIR R. FISCHER (September 18, 1998)
Dan
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