![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But there was one word that would allow them to explore all of these areas at once and not have to think twice. was on board surfaced and the focus shifted to dance. Working with Nellie Hooper, the rumour-mill said they'd gone trip-hop. U2 had begun recording with the idea that they were going to make a real rock 'n' roll record. That spirit was in the air - and it sparked a potential title for the new record. It was about being in a successful band and enjoying it. Bono described it as a defiant gesture, a fuck-you to the begrudgers. The band were in the middle of recording a song called "Gone" at the time. But that was what we wanted, right from the start: to be one of the biggest bands in the world." We were supposed to feel guilty about the fact that we'd been successful. "During the '80s, it was almost as if we had to say sorry for being in a big band," Bono said to me, somewhere in the middle of recording U2's official follow-up to Zooropa. From Frank Sinatra through Elvis, the Beatles and Bob Dylan to.Oasis. The picture doesn't come any bigger or wider than that. When you're in U2, you gotta see the big picture. But when you're in one of the biggest bands in the world, genres are like boxes - too constricting. Genres are for people who are happy to accept that what they're doing will appeal to fans of a particular genre. What do you do? "I'm a member of a pop group." What sort of music do you play?įorget dance. It crystallises something for the U2 singer. Who the fuck do these guys think they are, talking down to the practitioners of such a noble calling? The implicit assumption seems to be that there's something unworthy, something unclean - something to be ashamed of! - in being in a rock 'n' roll band. His contempt for the very thought of it is palpable. There's a pause and then it comes out like.pop group. It isn't what he says, it's the way that he says it. "You're involved in a pop group," he says, one eyebrow arched like an accusation. and the Edge, about its lengthy genesis and what the band hoped to accomplish in creating it.īackstage at some celebrity charity bash, a plum-accented classical conductor is talking at Bono. Here, Niall Stokes talks to Bono and Adam Clayton, as well as co-producers Flood, Howie B. It's the first album since 1983 that they've made without the assistance of Brian Eno, it's been a long time in the making - roughly a full year, all told - and it's selling like the proverbial warm buns. But U2's ninth studio album, Pop, is all of these things and more. The initial rumours were that it was going to be "a rock 'n' roll record." Then subsequent whispers hinted at everything from trip-hop to techno to ambient. ![]()
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