No line on the horizon

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No line on the horizon
Studio album by U2

Publication
(s)

February 27, 2009

Label (s) Universal

Format (s)

CD, vinyl, download

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

11

running time

53:45

occupation Bono ( vocals )
The Edge ( guitar , vocals)
Adam Clayton ( bass guitar )
Larry Mullen Junior ( drums )

production

Steve Lillywhite , Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois

Studio (s)

South of France , New York City , Fez , Hanover Quay Studios in Dublin , Olympic Studios in London

chronology
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
(2004) 		No line on the horizon Songs of Innocence
(2014)

No Line on the Horizon is the twelfth studio album by the Irish band U2 . It was released on February 27, 2009.

Track list

  1. No Line On the Horizon - 4:12
  2. Magnificent - 5:24
  3. Moment of Surrender - 7:24
  4. Unknown Caller - 6:03
  5. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - 4:14
  6. Get On Your Boots - 3:25
  7. Stand Up Comedy - 3:50
  8. Fez - Being Born - 5:17
  9. White as Snow - 4:41
  10. Breathe - 5:00
  11. Cedars of Lebanon - 4:16

Charts

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
No line on the horizon
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/13/2009 (28 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/13/2009 (28 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/15/2009 (32 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/14/2009 (25 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 03/21/2009 (35 weeks)
Singles
Get on your boots
  DE 19th 03/06/2009 (6 weeks)
  AT 11 03/06/2009 (4 weeks)
  CH 65 03/15/2009 (3 weeks)
  UK 12 02/28/2009 (5 weeks)
  US 37 02/07/2009 (3 weeks)
Magnificent
  DE 25th 06/05/2009 (9 weeks)
  AT 51 06/05/2009 (3 weeks)
  CH 45 04/19/2009 (19 weeks)
  UK 42 05/16/2009 (1 week)
  US 79 03/21/2009 (1 week)
I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight
  DE 40 09/18/2009 (3 weeks)
  AT 34 09/18/2009 (3 weeks)
  CH 49 09/20/2009 (2 weeks)
  UK 32 09/19/2009 (1 week)

The album reached number one in most countries around the world, including the UK, Canada, Mexico, France and Australia. Get on Your Boots , Magnificent and I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight were released as singles . However, these lagged behind the success of previous publications and mostly only reached the top 10 in smaller countries.

Cover

For the first time since the album Zooropa , the band is not shown on the cover, but a picture by the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto , who used a recording of Lake Constance . The photo shows the transition from the lake to the sky, although - given its name - no clear horizon can be seen. The photo was taken in Uttwil , on the Swiss side of Lake Constance.

Contributors

trip

A good six months after the album was released, U2 began the first leg of their world tour " U2 360 ° Tour " on June 30, 2009 in Barcelona .

The stage design was characterized above all by the fact that it does not have a classic stage layout with a clear "front", but rather the audience - which gives the tour its name - is on all 360 ° around the stage. The video screen and loudspeaker are not on the floor, but hang on the stage structure. In this way, more spectators than usual can attend the performances: around 10,000 extra seats per concert could be created.

Since 2011, the U2 360 ° Tour has officially been the most successful tour of all time, as it has probably surpassed the Rolling Stones' record (US $ 558 million) with revenues of around 700 million US dollars. In addition, U2 surpass the Rolling Stones in terms of audience numbers. At the end of the 360 ​​° tour, around 7 million viewers followed the concerts, while the Stones "only" 6.4 million.

Due to an injury to Bono during rehearsals for the tour, the tour dates were postponed unplanned. After 110 concerts in 30 countries, the last performance took place on July 30th in Moncton , Canada .

The stage of the 360 ​​tour. In addition to the lighting system and loudspeakers, the video screen is attached to the four-legged construction of the stage. Directly below is the circular stage surrounded by the inner auditorium. At a certain distance there is a circular walkway connected by two bridges that can be swiveled over the circle.
The stage is surrounded on all sides by the audience.

Others

The film Linear by the photographer and film director Anton Corbijn was also released with the album . The film is stored with the songs from the album, which, however, are played in a different order. In addition to the album tracks, there is another track - Winter - available.

At the beginning of the studio recordings, the music producer Rick Rubin was still involved. However, the songs that were created with his collaboration were not used on the album.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources album:
  2. ↑ Chart sources singles:
  3. ↑ Statement on the cover of No Line On The Horizon on u2.com. u2tour.com, January 22, 2009, accessed November 2, 2010 .
  4. ↑ U2 360 ° TOUR. Leg 1: 2009. u2.com, accessed November 2, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Stadium rock: U2 wrest the tour world record from Rolling Stones. In: Spiegel Online . April 11, 2011, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ Emergency operation in Munich, Bono has to go to rehab. laut.de, May 26, 2010, accessed on November 2, 2010 .
  7. ↑ u2tour.de: U2 360 ° Tour - Concerts, Reports - U2tour.de. In: u2tour.de. June 4, 2010, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  8. ^ Linear (2009). imdb.de, accessed on November 4, 2010 (data on Linear in the Internet Movie Database).
  9. ↑ Tracklist for Linear. u2tour.de, February 23, 2009, accessed on November 4, 2010 (German, English, content from Linear ).
  10. ↑ Edge interview in Mojo magazine ( memento of the original from February 21, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated November 24, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mojo4music.com