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You don't have to get up in the morning, you're expected to be a little sloppy late at night. And I suppose like all addicts, I probably knew that as well. - Adam Claytonīut the thing about being in a rock and roll band, and particularly one that is successful, adds Clayton, is that 'you can paper over the cracks pretty easily. I think many people who have issues with addiction, kind of, know deep down in themselves that this could be a problem at some point. 'I pushed it quite far,'' says Clayton of his addiction. While the grandeur of the austere PopMart tour was fun for him, Clayton says that he was battling his own 'issues with alcohol and drugs' during that time. … So by the time I think we'd returned from the stadium tours, we just felt we wanted to get close to the audience.'Īnd after a decade spent performing in outdoor stadiums, U2 not only went back to their stripped down R'n'R rooted sound with their next album, but decided to support it and their fans with a more intimate setting, bringing their Elevation tour in support of All That You Can't Leave Behind back to the arenas. 'There are some great songs on that record. But, I think people lost the songs in the experimental sounds' says Clayton. ' was an extraordinarily experimental album, in terms of sounds, and some really great songs.

U2 went a step further with their album Pop and in support of it made their PopMart tour even more elaborately staged with a golden arch in front of a sloped video screen and a motorized lemon shaped mirrorball that took the band over the audience. 'When we got back from The Joshua Tree, we suddenly went, 'Whoa, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, New Order, why can't we do some of this?' And that was what we tried to kind of bring to the Achtung Baby sessions.'

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'And then, we'd come into Zoo TV and supported the Achtung Baby album where we've gone the exact opposite,' with a complex set up that included large video screens and a video production with a full-fledged control room built into the tour that directed and projected content on the screens.Ĭlayton explains that because of the movement that was happening in the U.K., while they were away touring their album The Joshua Tree, the album itself ended up sounding different and was imbued with electronica. Just the four guys on stage,' remembers Clayton. The band had gone from performing arenas for The Joshua Tree and by the end of that tour, they were in stadiums with three stadium productions but 'no video reinforcement, no bells and whistles, no help at all. Something Bono would say a lot during their massive 2001 Elevation tour which supported All That You Can't Leave Behind was: 'We're back, re-applying for the job of best band in the world.' They made one hit after another and topped charts all over the world, yet the band still felt they had to prove themselves. had already been playing together for 25 years. Reapplying for the 'best band in the world' jobīy the time All That You Can't Leave Behind was released, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. He talks about his struggle with addiction, U2's relationship with the late lead singer of INXS, Michael Hutchence, and reminisces on what it was like performing in New York right after the September 11 attacks. This year, to mark its 20th anniversary, All That You Can't Leave Behind was reissued as a brand new 12-track remaster - featuring anthemic hits such as Beautiful Day, Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Walk On, Elevation and a 51-track Super Deluxe box set that includes a photo book, outtakes, unreleased remixes and more.Ĭlayton joined q's Tom Power to look back at the seminal album and to share the deeper meaning that period had for him. 'I think we'd really stretched what U2 meant and what U2 could be. Having had time to think back, U2's bassist, Adam Clayton says that the band didn't lose their way after The Joshua Tree. U2 at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards as they won a Grammy for the Best Rock Album for All That You Can't Leave Behind, in 2002.