The guys in U2 seem to like to adopt other personalities. Yes in 1987 They dressed up as the Dalton Brothersten years later they became Village People. Bono was the policeman, Edge the biker, Adam the sailor and Larry the cowboy. We saw them this way, inside a mirror ball, in the video clip of 'Discotheque'his first foray into electronic music. Although disappointed many fansthe song was very popular in clubs and topped the charts in several countries. On February 15, 1997 it became his third number 1 in the United Kingdom.
Even though they called him 'Pop'was the first time U2 experimented with electronics and used innovative techniques – sampling, loops, drum machine or sequencer. And, although they called it 'Pop', they considered many other names such as 'Discola', 'Miami' or 'Godzilla'. For the first time since 1983 they dispensed with Brian Eno and they replaced it with other producers: Nellee Hooper, Flood, Howie B and Steve Osborne.
Furthermore, on October 26, 1996, U2 became one of the first bands to fall victim to the leak from a 30-second snippet of the first single, 'Discothèque'something unusual then. Two months later, the entire topic was circulating on the Internet, hence They had to advance the date of publication.
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'Discothèque', the Irish band's ode to club culturewas published on February 3, 1997. Howie B was in charge of the musical track and, today, He still remembers the anger. He had gone to New York to master the album when Bond decided he wanted a new 'intro' for 'Discotheque'. This is what he said in an interview for Hot Press: “It was outrageous… I couldn't speak, I was sick, I was dusty. It was my friend's birthday.” Saoirse (her daughter) and she was in New York too and I had to meet her and then around 10:30 Bono says, 'Listen, It would be magical if you could get a new intro for 'Discotheque'”.
“I got in a taxi and headed to Hit Factory. I was kicking things you couldn't imagine. ''Fuck! Fuck!' We were in the middle of mastering the album andthey wanted to change the intro! It was like, any ideas? AND the whirlwind was the idea. Is what they decided to call 'swirl sound' whirlwind sound Damn!. After get all that aggression out of me, In ten minutes I got what today is the 'intro' of 'Discotheque'. So I phoned them…they all surrounded me and I couldn't put it on because I had burned out the fucking speakers.! I'm still angry about what happened that night.but I made a good job anyway”.
'Discotheque', the song that opened U2's ninth albumit's just “a riddle about love“This is how Bono explained it in the book 'U2 by U2'. “Once you know that, changes the way you listen to it: 'You can reach, but you can't grab it, you can't hold it, control it, you can't catch it.'
The video clip surprised many fans. The Frenchman directed it Stephane Sednaoui at Pinewood Studios, just outside London. The band performs in what appears to be the interior of a mirror ball and alludes to various elements of the disco era including the film 'Saturday Night Fever'. At the end of the video, the four members of U2 they become Village People and they adopt costumes similar to those worn by the American disco band: the police officer (Bono), the cyclist (Edge), the sailor (Adam Clayton) and the cowboy (Larry Mullen Jr.).
“I like to think that we were dangerously ahead of our time”Edge reflected in www.u2.com. “Is a magnificent video and it has been copied many times since then”.
Although this U2's first experiment with electronics baffled many fans, 'Discotheque' was a very popular song on the dance floors and reached the maximum position in several countries such as Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway or the United Kingdom where On February 15, 1997 he became the group's third No. 1. In the United States the issue stood out because it was the U2's only single since 1991 that entered into the Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100. And the album, 'Pop', sold like hotcakes.
While they were still recording it, U2 allowed their manager Paul McGuinnes to book the dates for PopMart Tour. 'Pop' was published in March 1997 and the tour started in April. They barely had time to rehearse the songs.. During that tour, The first song of the encore, the one they performed after descending from a giant lemon, was 'Discotheque'.
