Achtung Baby
U2, released in 1991 (Ireland), rock.
- Artist: U2
- Year: 1991
- Genre: Rock
- Country: Ireland
Overview
Begun at Hansa Studios in a newly reunified Berlin, Achtung Baby reinvented U2 with industrial textures, distorted guitars and dance rhythms. One emerged from tense sessions that nearly broke up the band. The Zoo TV tour that followed turned irony and media overload into stadium spectacle.
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