U2 - Achtung Baby

20^th Anniversary Uber Deluxe Edition
Two 180-gram LPs; five 7" Vinyl Singles; 6 CDs; 4 DVDs; 84-page book

Twenty years ago, Bono described Achtung Baby as "the sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree" while Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that "stripped-down and defying its old formulas, U2 has given itself a fighting chance for the 1990s." The album won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and became one of the most significant records of the nineties and of U2's career.

To mark 20 years since its 1991 release, U2 and Island Records are now releasing an anniversary edition of Achtung Baby.

Recorded over six months at Hansa Studio in Berlin and Windmill Lane in Dublin, Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album. Produced by longtime U2 collaborators, Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno with Steve Lillywhite, Achtung Baby was engineered by Flood and led by "The Fly." The album spawned four other singles: "Mysterious Ways," "One," "Even Better Than The Real Thing" and "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses."

The Achtung Baby archives have unearthed some previously unreleased songs from the recording sessions. With a raft of unreleased material; video, remixes, b-sides and documentary footage discovered, a full album of demo and early versions of the final 1991 track listing has also been revealed.

This limited, numbered Uber Deluxe Edition comes in a magnetic puzzle titled box and contains: six CDs including the original Achtung Baby album, the follow-up album, Zooropa, B-sides, remixes and re-workings of previously unheard material recorded during the Achtung Baby sessions; four DVDs including From The Sky Down, Zoo TV: Live From Sydney, all the original sleeves; 16 art prints taken from the original album sleeve, an 84-page hardback book, a copy of Propaganda magazine, four badges, a sticker sheet and a pair of Bono's trademark The Fly sunglasses.