The Unforgettable Fire

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The Unforgettable Fire
Studio album by U2

Publication
(s)

October 1, 1984

admission

March - August 1984

Label (s) Island Records

Format (s)

Record , cassette and CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

42'19 ″

occupation Bono ( vocals , harmonica )
The Edge (vocals, guitar , keyboards )
Adam Clayton ( electric bass )
Larry Mullen Junior ( drums )
Brian Eno (vocals, keyboards)
Daniel Lanois (vocals, guitar, percussion instrument )

production

Brian Eno , Daniel Lanois

Studio (s)

Windmill Lane Studios ,
Dublin , Slane Castle , Slane , Ireland

chronology
Under a Blood Red Sky
(1983) 		The Unforgettable Fire Wide Awake in America
(1985)

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by the Irish rock band U2 . The record was made in the first collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois and was released in October 1984.

background

The title of the plate refers to a series of pictures painted by survivors of the atomic bomb attack on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . The band saw the pictures in the "Peace Museum" in Chicago . The museum also hosted an exhibition on American civil rights activist Martin Luther King .

The first part of the recording took place in Slane Castle .
The final recordings of the record were made at Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin

The record was recorded in Slane Castle , Ireland , and completed in Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin . The ruins on the cover of the plate, photographed by Anton Corbijn , is not Slane Castle, but the in County Westmeath located Moydrum Castle . The exposure, the filters used and the location of the photo was an imitation of a previously published picture by the artist Simon Marsden . The copyright infringement cost the band an unknown, higher sum.

Tracks of the record

  1. "A Sort of Homecoming" - 5:28
  2. " Pride (In the Name of Love) " - 3:48
  3. "Wire" - 4:19
  4. "The Unforgettable Fire" - 4:55
  5. “Promenade” - 2:35
  6. "4th of July" - 2:12
  7. " Bad " - 6:09
  8. "Indian Summer Sky" - 4:17
  9. "Elvis Presley and America" ​​- 6:23
  10. "MLK" - 2:31

2009 Super Deluxe Edition

  1. "Disappearing Act" Outtake Sessions 4:35
  2. "A Sort of Homecoming" (Live at Wembley Arena, London)
  3. "Bad" (Live at NEC, Birmingham)
  4. "Love Comes Tumbling"
  5. "The Three Sunrises"
  6. "Yoshino Blossom" outtake sessions
  7. "Wire" (Kevorkian 12 "Vocal Remix)
  8. "Boomerang I"
  9. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (Single Version)
  10. "A Sort of Homecoming" (Daniel Lanois Remix) (1985-Single Version) feat. Peter Gabriel
  11. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Long Version)
  12. "Wire" (Celtic Dub Mix)
  13. "Bass Trap"
  14. "Boomerang II"
  15. "4th of July" (Single Version) (Instrumental)
  16. "Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come"

Video

Videos have been produced for some of the songs on the album. The videos were directed by Meiert Avis , Barry Devlin and Donald Cammell .

The videos were combined on the film "The Unforgettable Fire Collection" as VHS and released in 1985. This purchase video cassette also contained a documentation (30 minutes long) about the history of the record's creation. The documentation was later published again as bonus material on the DVD U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle and on the 2009 “Super Deluxe Edition” of the album.

  1. "The Unforgettable Fire" (Meiert Avis)
  2. "Bath"
  3. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (By Donald Cammell)
  4. "A Sort of Homecoming"
  5. "The Making of The Unforgettable Fire Documentary (including version 2 of Pride)" (Barry Devlin)

DVD bonus titles

Excerpts from U2 at "A Conspiracy of Hope-concert" (Live at Giants Stadium, New Jersey)

  1. "MLK"
  2. "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
  3. "Bath"

U2 at "Live Aid" (Live at Wembley Arena, London)

  1. "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
  2. "Bath"
  3. "Ruby Tuesday" (snippet)
  4. "Sympathy for the Devil" (snippet)
  5. "Pride (In the Name of Love)" - Sepia Music Video
  6. "11 O'Clock Tick Tock" (Live at Croke Park, Dublin) - Bootleg version

reception

English-language Rolling Stone voted this album 374 of the 500 best albums of all time in 2003 .

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
France (SNEP) France (SNEP) Gold record icon.svg gold 100,000
Canada (MC) Canada (MC) Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum 300,000
Netherlands (NVPI) Netherlands (NVPI) Gold record icon.svg gold 50,000
United States (RIAA) United States (RIAA) Platinum record icon.svg 3 × platinum 3,000,000
United Kingdom (BPI) United Kingdom (BPI) Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum 600,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg2 × gold
Platinum record icon.svg8 × platinum
 4,050,000

Main article: U2 (band) / Music Sales Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ McCormick (2008): U2byU2, page 193, ISBN 0-00-719669-5
  2. ^ "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" . rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on December 11, 2010. Retrieved October 15, 2010.

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