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U2: 20 YEARS OF ACHTUNG BABY RELEASED NOVEMBER 1

Anniversary Edition - Previously Unreleased Songs and New Documentary
Released November 1

Doc “From The Sky Down” Directed by Academy Award Winner Davis Guggenheim to open the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th


(TORONTO – August 4, 2011) - Twenty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as “the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree” while Jon Pareles of the New York Times wrote that “stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990s”. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the nineties and of U2’s career.

To mark twenty years since its 1991 release, an anniversary edition of U2’s Achtung Baby is due on November 1, 2011 (Universal Music Canada).

Recorded over six months at Hansa Studio in Berlin and Windmill Lane in Dublin, Achtung Baby is U2’s seventh studio album. Produced by long time U2 collaborators, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno with Steve Lillywhite, Achtung Baby was engineered by Flood and lead by The Fly. The album spawned four other singles, Mysterious Ways, One, Even Better Than The Real Thing and Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses.

The Achtung Baby archives have unearthed some previously unreleased songs from the recording sessions. With a raft of unreleased material which includes video, remixes, b-sides, uncovered documentary footage and full album demos, five physical editions including vinyl, CD, DVD and digital options will be made available. Full details of all formats are at achtungbaby.u2.com.

Earlier this year, U2 returned to Hansa Studio in Berlin to discuss the making of Achtung Baby in From The Sky Down, a documentary directed by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim (Waiting for Superman, An Inconvenient Truth). The film has been selected to open the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th and will be included in the anniversary edition.