Daniel Lanois
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Daniel Roland Lanois is a Canadian record producer and musician.
Lanois on pedal steel guitar
Lanois (centre) performing live
Daniel Lanois' star on Canada's Walk of Fame
Achtung Baby
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Achtung Baby is the seventh studio album by the Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and was released on 18 November 1991 by Island Records. After criticism of their 198
Daniel Lanois
…and Harold Budd. He collaborated with Brian Eno to create the ambient genre and produce several albums for U2, including The Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991). Three albums produced or co-produced by Lanois have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Four other albums received Grammy nominations…
Prior to recording Achtung Baby, the Edge and Bono (pictured in 2024) began working more closely together on songwriting without the other band members.
The initial recording sessions took place at Berlin's Hansa Studios in late 1990 in the Meistersaal, a former SS ballroom.
Bono in 1992 as his persona "The Fly", a leather-clad egomaniac meant to parody rock stardom. He conceived this character during the band's 1991 recording sessions in Dublin.
The Edge on the Zoo TV Tour in November 1993