Subject: alt.music.u2 FAQ, Part 3/4
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Date: 21 Mar 1996 14:38:44 GMT
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X-Last-Updated: 1995/10/23

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   3. ZooTV - Achtung Baby and Zooropa
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  3.1 What characters does Bono use in shows?
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[M]   Bono has played three different characters on stage.  They are The
Fly,  the Mirrorball Man, and Mr. MacPhisto.  The Fly is supposed to
represent the typical "rock star" with his black, shiny leather clothes and
his bug-eyed glasses.  His excess and posing for the cameras is to make
fun ofthe way rock has become impersonal and fake.  The next character
is the Mirrorball Man, who is a Television Evangelist.  He wears shiny,
sparkling clothes that look like, what else, a disco ball. 
The last character, who was seen in the Sydney concert, is Mr.
MacPhisto, an aging thespian/rock star.  Both the Mirrorball Man and
Mr. MacPhisto are representations of, if not the devil, then very evil
characters.  The Mirrorball Man was only seen in the US and MacPhisto
was created for the rest of the world.  This was done because it was felt
that European and worldwide audiences would not be able to relate to the
evangelist character.

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   3.1.1 Who's in the picture on MacPhisto's dressing table in the Sydney
video?
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[CB] Mario Lanza. (this is a confirmed answer).

[MJS]  I second that. Mario Lanza was an American opera-style singer in
the 1950. He had no formal training but sang in a light operatic style in
several MGM musicals.  He was touted as "the American Caruso." In
fact, Mario was a truck driver from Philadelphia and could handle neither
the stress of fame nor MGM's insistence that he sing like Caruso but
weigh only slightly more than his leading ladies.  He died of a heartattack
in his '30's.  Bono said in an interview with Spin magazine that Mario
Lanza's singing impressed him as a child.

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  3.2 What is Automatic Baby? Will there be an album?
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[SL] In January 1993, when the USA were celebrating the inauguration of
 Bill Clinton's office, there were several 'Rock&Roll Inaugural Balls'. On
the 20th, REM's Michael Stipe and Michael Mills joined U2's Larry and
Adam in a performance of "One". This is recorded and some bootlegs
actually include this rather unique reunion. The union of these artists was
immediately labeled 'Automatic Baby' (as in 'Automatic for the People'
and 'Achtung Baby', their latest albums), and the outcome was so good
that the idea of an Automatic Baby album  project was mentioned for
some time, but has now faded.

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  3.3 Who is Wim Wenders?
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[AC] A movie producer and writer. He seems to be well respected by a
lot of people - but most notably, not by Hollywood and all of that b.s.
This means he might be good. The soundtracks to his last 2 movies,
"Until the End of the World" and "Far Away, So Close" have had lots of
major international musicians on them. Obviously, this includes U2!

[SR] Wim Wenders is a German movie director. He started working with
U2 for his movie called "Until The End Of The World" whose
soundtrack includes the U2-song of the same name. I think Wim and the
boys became friends and their meet is probably due to the fact that the
band stayed in Berlin during the recording of Achtung Baby. However
the next WW movie, called "Faraway, So Close" also includes the U2
song of the same name. 

[SL] Wim also directed the video for "Stay", and the images of Bono
climbing up some statue are an allusion to the movie "Faraway, So Close"
which is a follow-up to "Wings of Desire"

[MPZ] Wim Wenders will be directing "The Million Dollar Hotel",
which Bono wrote the screenplay for.

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  3.4 Who is Charles Bukowski?
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[JC] The movie 'Barfly' with Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway is
based on the  life of Charles  Bukowski.  I've only watched a half hour of
it.  It depicts  the lives of two alcholics, Rourke  playing the Bukowski
role.  Despite his alcoholism, Bukowski was somewhat of an 'urban poet'
 and some of his work was  published.  For more answers, see the movie.

[RA] Charles Bukowski was an internationally famous contemporary
poet and prose stylist. He  was born in Andernach, Germany, and came
to the US at the age of 13. He has published 45  volumes, both novels
and poetry. Unfortunately, Mr. Bukowski passed away a couple months
ago  at the age of 74. He wrote with a very raw and honest style. A good
sampling of Bukowski's  work can be found in _Septuagenarian Stew:
Stories and Poems_ or _Love is a Dog From Hell_,  both published by
Black Sparrow Press.

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  3.5  Who is William Gibson, and what is Neuromancer?
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[IM] In case you don't know this yourself, Bono based a lot of stuff 
from Zooropa on this  person's work. William Gibson wrote a book
called  Neuromancer which is about cyberspace and  virtual
environments.  (This might explain the Virtuality helmet that appears on
the inlay card  of  the Zooropa CD.)

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   3.6 What's all this fuss about the 'Lemon' video?
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[K] A friend of mine who's just graduated film school got really psyched
after seeing "Lemon."  There's this very important early film that
recorded horses, people etc. walking and running (the  film maker was
trying to prove something about the physics of galloping etc.) Anyways,
in this  film underneath the sequence is the captions "horse running",
"man walking" etc. The caption in  "Lemon" are very similar to the font
type used in the original film. There were other similariites,  but since I've
only seen both works once (the historic piece in some histoy of
communication/film  class), I can't remember what else led my friend to
beleve U2 must have seen this earlier film (it  was like one of the first
uses of the moving camera or something...)  Anybody else familar with
this?  
[JK] Now that ya mention it, yeah!  Umm, the horses one was the first
experiment using motion  photography, I believe it was like 6 frames a
second for a few seconds?  Anyways, yeah...also  they had markers in
the background to help measure/show the movement, maybe this could
be  related to the grid in Lemon?

[pat38@aol.com]
Yes, that is correct, the photographer is Edward Muybridge who did
hundreds of motion studies  during the late 1800's. This started as a bet
between two rich guys and Muybridge was hired to  settle the bet with
his invention of a series of many still cameras set up with wire triggers
rigged to  expose film as a horse ran past. The resulting set of time-lapse
prints formed the first 'photo flip  book'. He proved that a horse indeed
has all four legs in the air at a point during a run. If you look  up these
photos at your local library you will see where the styling for parts of
the Lemon video  came from.  In fact, since U2 has decided to depart
from stark visuals their work has become an  art student's smorgsaboard,
a dizzying assemblage of related and disparate elements which could 
keep an art historian busy for years.

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  3.7 What does Vosprung durch Technik mean in Zooropa?
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[MJS]  It is a German phrase meaning roughly "lead by/through
technology." A more elegant translation is "A step ahead through
technology." It was an advertising slogan used by a German car
company, Volkswagen or Audi, just like many of the other phrases in the
song. 

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   4. Discography
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 [SL]  I have decided to include a minute discography here, since the idea
of mentioning all the singles, maxi-singles and related stuff would make
this file far too big. For those who are really interested in the B-sides to
All I WantYou when it was released in Guatemala, Greg's discography is
what you're looking for. He can be reached at
 Greg Murphy (gregm@koko.csustan.edu)

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  4.1  What studio albums have been released?
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 1. Boy        
 I Will Follow \ Twilight \ An Cat Dubh \ Into The Heart \Out Of Control
{LP}\ Stories For Boys \ The Ocean \ A Day Without Me \Another
Time, Another Place \ The Electric Co. \ Shadows And Tall Trees
[Steve Lillywhite \ November 1980]

 2. October     
 Gloria \ I Fall Down \ I Threw A Brick Through A Window \ Rejoice \
Fire{LP}\ Tomorrow \ October \ With A Shout \ Stranger In A Strange
Land \Scarlet \ Is That All?
[Steve Lillywhite \ November 1981] {10/81}

 3. War       
 Sunday Bloody Sunday \ Seconds \ New Year's Day \ Like A Song...\
Drowning Man {LP}\ The Refugee \ Two Hearts Beat As One \ Red
Light \Surrender \ "40" [Steve Lillywhite  February 1983] 

 4. Under A Blood Red Sky [mini-album]
  Gloria \ 11 O'Clock Tick Tock \ I Will Follow \ Party Girl {LP}\
Sunday Bloody Sunday \ The Electric Co. \ New Year's Day \ "40" 
[Jimmy Iovine \ November 1983]  [U2's only commercial live album]

 5. The Unforgettable Fire
 A Sort Of Homecoming \ Pride (In The Name Of Love) \ Wire \The
Unforgettable Fire \ Promenade {LP&Tape} 4th Of July \ Bad \ Indian
Summer Sky \ Elvis Presley And America \ MLK
 [Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois \ September 1984]

 6. Wide Awake In America [mini-album]
 Bad (live) \ A Sort Of Homecoming (live) {LP}\The Three Sunrises \
Love Comes Tumbling
[U2 except A Sort Of Homecoming produced by Tony Visconti \ May
1985]

 7. The Joshua Tree
  Where The Streets Have No Name \I Still Haven't Found What I'm
Looking For \ With Or Without You \Bullet The Blue Sky \ Running To
Stand Still {LP&Tape}\Red Hill Mining Town \ In God's Country \ Trip
Through Your Wires \One Tree Hill \ Exit \ Mothers Of The Disappeared
[Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno \ March 1987]

 8. Rattle And Hum
 *Helter Skelter \ Van Diemen's Land \ Desire \ Hawkmoon 269 {LP}\
*All Along The Watchtower \ *I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking
For \ **Freedom For My People \ *Silver And Gold \ *Pride (In The
Name Of Love){LP&Tape}\ Angel Of Harlem \ Love Rescue Me \ When
Love Comes To Town \ Heartland \LP\ God Part II \ ***The Star
Spangled Banner \      *Bullet The Blue Sky \ All I Want Is You
[Jimmy Iovine \ October 11, 1988]
[*live][The 1st 30 sec. (approx.) of guitar on Watchtower is NOT live.]
[**performed by Sterling Magee and Adam Gussow]
[***recording of Jimi Hendrix]

 9. Achtung Baby
      Zoo Station \ Even Better Than The Real Thing \ One \Until The End
Of The World \Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses \So Cruel
{LP&Tape}\ The Fly \ Mysterious Ways \ Tryin' To Throw Your Arms
Around The World \ Ultra Violet (Light My Way) \ Acrobat \ Love is
Blindness
[Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois]

10. Zooropa
      Zooropa \ Babyface \ Numb \ Lemon \ Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
{LP&tape}\Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car \ Some Days Are
Better Than Others \ The First Time \ Dirty Day \     The Wanderer
[Flood, Brian Eno, & The Edge]
[July 5, 1993 \ Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Europe]
[July 6, 1993 \ US, Canada]

[CL] Incidentally, the first U2 release was U2:3, an Irish-only EP which
had Out Of Control,
Stories For Boys, and Boy/Girl. The first two songs were later redone
and put on the Boy album.

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  4.2  Solo projects/collaborations.
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Under Construction.
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   4.2.1  Solo 
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Captive
[Edge wrote and performed the entire album, with Sinead O'Connor and
Michael Brook] [1986]

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  4.2.2 Collaborations
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[MJS] Special thanks to Pleeker for alerting me to this list, compiled by:
ULISSE PEROTTA
[UP] 
Jah Wobble, The Edge, Holger Czukay
LP:SnakeCharmer(Island,Apr83)
Notes: Edge plays the guitar on the tracks "Snake Charmer", and "Hold
On To Your Love". The latter was also written by the Man himself!

Band Aid
7'/12': Do They Know It's Christmas (Mercury, Dec 84)
Notes: With Bono and Adam, among the huge number stars who recorded
this to raise money for Ethiopia.

Artists United Against Apartheid
7'/12': SunCity (EMI, Nov 85)
Notes: Bono sings on the track "Sun City" and also plays "Silver &
Gold" (written by himself), together with Keith Richards and Ron Wood.

Clannad
LP: Macalla (RCA, Nov 85)
Notes: Bono sings with Maire O'Brennan on the track "In A Lifetime". It
also came out as a single.

T-Bone Burnett
LP: Behind The Trap Door (Demon, Nov 85)
Notes: Bono co-writer of the track "Having A Wonderful Time"

Paul Brady
LP: Back To The Centre (MCA, Apr 86)
Notes: Larry plays the drums on the track "Airwaves"

The Edge
3LP: Captive (Virgin, Sep 86)
Notes: Original soundtrack, written by The Edge, with Michael Brook.
The track "Heroine" is sung by Sinead O'Connor. On the same track,
Larry plays the drums. It also came out as a single (7'/12')

Christy Moore
7': Let's Make It Work (??? 1986)
Notes: Larry plays the drums.

Robbie Robertson
LP: Robbie Robertson (Geffen 1987)
Notes: U2 plays "Sweet Fire Of Love" and "Testimony"

Various Artists
LP: A Very Special Christmas (A&M, Oct 87)
Notes: Charity record. U2 plays the song "Christmas (Baby, Please
Come Home", by Phil Spector.

 T-Bone Burnett
LP: Talking Animals (CBS, May 88)
Notes: Bono is the co-writer of the song "Purple Heart".

Folkways
LP: A Vision Shared (CBS, Oct 88)
Notes: A tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. U2 plays "Jesus
Christ", by Woody Guthrie.

Roy Orbison
LP: Mistery Girl (Virgun, Jan 89)
Notes: Bono writes "She's A Mistery To Me" and produces it with The
Edge. Also as a single (7'/12')

Melissa Ethridge
5LP: Brave & Crazy (Island, Oct 89)
Notes: Bono plays the harmonica on the track "Royal Station".

Daniel Lanois
LP: Acadie (Opal, 1989)
Notes: Larry and Adam play on the tracks "Still Water" and "Jolie
Louise". Bono sings background on "Still Water."

Neville Brothers
LP: Brother's Keeper (A&M, 1990)
Notes: Bono and Cyril Neville are co-writers of the song "Jah Love".

Various Artists
LP: Red Hot & Blue (EMI 1991)
Notes: A tribute to Cole Porter, to raise money for the AIDS research.
U2 plays "Night And Day":

Bono, Gavin Friday, Maurice Seezer
CD: In The Name Of The Father (Island 1994)
Notes: Original movie soundtrack. There's also a CD-single with the title
track, with guest vocalist Sinead O'Connor.

[MJS]
Flyer - Nancy Griffith
Adam and Larry played on 4 tracks - These Days in an Open
Book,Don't forget about Me (also remixed by Larry); On Grafton Street
(also remixed by Larry); This Heart (also remixed by Larry).

[PG]  Larry contributed to 'Put 'em under pressure' by the Irish National
Soccer Team, for the world championships in Italy, 1990.  

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  4.2.3  Soundtracks
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Movie; song; date
1. They Call It an Accident - October  [1982]

2. The Last American Virgin - I Will Follow [1982]

3. The Courier - Walk to the Water [1987]

4. Until the End of the World - Until the End of the World [1990]

5. Faraway, So Close - Stay (Faraway, So Close) and The Wanderer
[1993]

6. Reality Bites - All I Want Is You [1993]

7. Pret-a-Porter - Lemon Remix [1994]

8. Threesome - Dancing Barefoot [1994]

9. Blown Away - 

10. Johnny Mnemonic - Alex Descends Into Hell [1995]

11. Batman Forever - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me [1995]


