Originally posted by gmc:[..]
Remember the 1st play on Radio 1 Breakfast Show,Simon Mayo around 8.10am.I’ve been convinced for 30 years he played it twice,back to back.
Originally posted by gmc:[..]
Remember the 1st play on Radio 1 Breakfast Show,Simon Mayo around 8.10am.I’ve been convinced for 30 years he played it twice,back to back.
Originally posted by badirishcharlie:Released on this day 30 years ago
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Originally posted by miryclay:I just found this video:
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On this website:
http://achtungbaby.com/videos/
Anyone? Is this fan-made?
Post any 'orphan' videos you know of so I can update the thread in due time.
Originally posted by ap5:This will sound age-ist but I do wonder if music fans that were not around at the time AB was released can fully appreciate how radical the change in U2 was. Obviously we all get it here on this forum and it has been discussed before - but it was mind boggling for me as a big fan of the band.
I remember catching only the last minute of The Fly video on MTV one night before I knew anything about the new album and thought it was a mistake when the little U2 title info appeared on the screen in the bottom corner at the end. And then I literally thought the record store where I bought the album had placed another band’s CASSETTE in the wrong row - I was looking for an album with a solitary B&W photo on the cover and all of the crazy photos and text made me think it wasn’t a U2 album.
I get it, I was no genius, but everything about the album was so radically different. And then you hit play and the opening notes of Zoo Station hit….and the rest became history for the band. Crazy fun to remember it.
Originally posted by neilgohil:[image]
Thought I'd stop by Piccadilly Circus on my way home today to celebrate 30 years of The Fly, (where the solo shots of Bono were filmed for the video). I first heard it on the Boston DVD and was blown away and it's remained one of my all time favourites. I can only imagine how people must have been scratching their heads when this first came out, wish I could've experienced how different it sounded at the time. Still sounds modern and never gets old.