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U2's debut turns adolescent uncertainty into urgent guitar music. Steve Lillywhite helped the young band make the studio part of the performance, rather than simply recording their stage sound.
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Inside the recording
- Producers
- Steve Lillywhite
- Engineering & mixing
- Paul Thomas, Kevin Moloney
- Recording locations
- Windmill Lane (Dublin, Ireland)
- In the studio
- The sessions involved painstaking tape editing as the rhythm section learned studio discipline.
Selected credits, not an exhaustive personnel list. Release credits — U2SongsPersonnel & background — Wikipedia
Tracks
- I Will FollowStudio Version
- TwilightStudio Version
- An Cat DubhStudio Version
- Into the HeartStudio Version
- Out of ControlStudio Version
- Stories for BoysStudio Version
- The OceanStudio Version
- A Day Without MeStudio Version
- Another Time, Another PlaceStudio Version
- The Electric Co.Studio Version
- Shadows and Tall TreesStudio Version
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Grammys & other honours
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Did you know?
The drum sound owes something to Windmill Lane's stairwell: a more resonant alternative to the studio's dry room. Everyday objects also became percussion.