Originally posted by podiumboy:[..] Pop and Popmart's failure
I hear this narrative of ‘failure’ a lot regarding POP and The POPMART Tour, but was it truly a failure though? The album still sold over 6 million copies , it was number one in a dozen countries .. the tour was a disaster at first but built up steam to feature in my mind some of their best live performances to this day. Yeah the ‘septic tanks’ ( Yanks ) looked bemused - after all the joke was on them lol - by it all but the whole kitschy thing was lapped up in Europe and by the time they got to me in Australia ( all aussie stadia was packed full i might add as i went and saw them in Melbourne Brisbane and Sydney ) they were on FIRE and tight as a drum on stage , so by U2s lofty expectations it might be perceived as one but it wasn’t a failure at all ! They would each give their right testicles to sell 6 million copies again of anything !