Seeking inspiration for the band's new era, they descended upon the newly unified Berlin and the iconic Hansa Studios, birthplace of Bowie's 'Low', Iggy Pop's 'The Idiot', and Tangerine Dream's 'Force Majeure'. During this time, the band's frontman discovered his affinity for German music, in particular Kraftwerk. In seeking to pay tribute to the sounds and artists of America who had largely been their guiding light during 'The Joshua Tree's' conception and subsequent success, they'd turned themselves into a laughing stock, as their audience merely saw arrogance and self-aggrandisement where only naivety and self-doubt actually lurked.įorced into a corner, they sought to go away for a while and, as Bono said on stage during a New Year's Eve concert in 1989: "dream it all up again". Their first decade as an outfit worth paying attention to had seen them become more intense, more solemn and more earnest, an attitude that forced them into a dead end with !989's disastrous 'Rattle And Hum'.
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When their 1987 record 'The Joshua Tree' took them out of arenas and into stadiums, the former post-punks from Dublin found themselves with the world at their feet and not a single clue on how to deal with it. And U2, the biggest band in the world during an era when bands only came in sizes "big" and "bigger", were on the verge of implosion.
The birth of the 1990s brought about changes that were scarcely imaginable a mere decade before: Thatcherism, the revitalising force behind the resurgent Conservative party was coming to an end The Berlin Wall, a defining image that exemplified a fractured Europe, had been torn down.
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