Iconic Albums U2 The Achtung Baby Era (1991): A Band Reinvented, City Transformed, New World Ahead

U2 had conquered the world. Then they decided to tear everything down and start again.After the enormous success of The Joshua Tree and the ambitious Rattle and Hum, U2 entered the 1990s facing a question that threatens every major band: where do you go when the sound that made you successful begins to feel like a trap?Iconic Albums: U2 - The Achtung Baby Era tells the complete story of one of the boldest reinventions in modern rock history.Follow Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. from the uncertainty that followed Rattle and Hum to the troubled sessions at Berlin's Hansa Studios, the breakthrough that produced "One," and the creation of a radically different U2 built around distortion, dance rhythms, electronic experimentation and a new sense of irony.Explore the stories behind "Zoo Station," "Even Better Than the Real Thing," "One," "Until the End of the World," "The Fly," "Mysterious Ways," "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)," "Acrobat," "Love Is Blindness" and the rest of the landmark album.The book also examines Anton Corbijn's fragmented artwork, the songs left behind during the sessions, Bono's creation of the Fly persona, the extraordinary Zoo TV tour and the creative momentum that carried U2 directly into Zooropa.This is the story of four musicians refusing to repeat themselves at the height of their fame-and producing an album that transformed their sound, their image and the direction of their career.For fans of U2, Achtung Baby, alternative rock and the stories behind classic albums, this is an in-depth journey through one of the defining musical eras of the 1990s.An independent and unofficial book. Not authorised by or affiliated with U2 or their representatives.