30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION VINYL OUT NOW
DIGITAL BOX SET OUT THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3RD
Island Records, Interscope, and UMe announce the 30th Anniversary Edition release of U2’s seminal album Achtung Baby, with a special Standard and Deluxe vinyl release available now, and a 50-track digital box set available this Friday, December 3, 2021.
Thirty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree” while Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote that “stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990’s”. 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.
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 released on November 18, 1991. Lead by The Fly, four other singles followed: Mysterious Ways, One, Even Better Than The Real Thing, and Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses. Watch HERE
In celebration of Achtung Baby’s anniversary, the band collaborated with Berlin-based French artist Thierry Noir (the first artist to paint on the Berlin Wall) for a special one-off installation at the legendary Hansa Studios in Kreuzberg that took place November 19-26, 2021. Thirty years ago, the band commissioned Noir to paint a series of now iconic Trabant cars, which featured on the album artwork, as well 1991’s Zoo TV Tour. U2 x THIERRY NOIR sees Noir return with a newly painted Trabant for 2021, as well as an exclusive mural painted on a section of the Berlin wall. For more information, click HERE:
The bonnet of the Trabant will be auctioned at Phillips, London, on December 9, as part of their New Now sale, with proceeds going to the Berlin Institute for Sound and Music. For more information, click HERE:
Achtung Baby (30th Anniversary Edition) is available on Standard black vinyl and Deluxe color vinyl now, with Achtung Baby (2018 Remaster) and Achtung Baby (Unter Remixes) also available digitally now. A 50-track digital boxset – to include Uber Remixes, Unter Remixes, B-Sides with 22 tracks never-before available digitally – will be released this Friday, December 3, 2021.
U2 X-Radio, the band’s SiriusXM channel, will this month present an Achtung Baby special to include interviews with band members and album collaboration Daniel Lanois, Flood, and Anton Corbijn. More information HERE:
Pre-order Achtung Baby (30th Anniversary Edition) HERE:
