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They rose up from a nation divided by religious sectarianism and the ashes of punk rock to become one of the biggest bands of the 80’s, but by the time 1991 rolled around the Irish supergroup U2 were on a quest to re-invent themselves.
With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dawn of a new decade, U2 set up camp in Berlin with producers Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, who had been at the helm of The Joshua Tree.
It was here that the seeds were planted for what would become Achtung Baby, with the band taking on influences from industrial and alternative music as well as the European house and dance music scene.
Achtung Baby would go on to top the Billboard Album Charts, earn the group a Grammy Award and rack up a whopping 18 million copies in sales.
It would also give birth to the Zoo TV tour–a rock spectacle on a scale that no one had seen before.
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