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Another big international transaction, signed with a subsidiary of the Dutch- owned company PolyGram, should make the Irish rock band U2 $170 million richer six albums from now. The size of the contract is reputed to be second only to Michael Jackson's with Sony...
...Ireland gave the world Van Morrison; in the '70s, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats; in the '80s, U2 and Sinead O'Connor. Now there's Black 47. The group's new album deals with such subjects as class warfare and potato famine, and their new video Funky Ceili is getting heavy play on MTV. Then there's the Irish band Hothouse Flowers, whose new album Songs from the Rain is both intelligent and evocative, full of the kind of arena-size emotions that are likely to seduce large audiences. And the new compilation Straight Outta Ireland -- whose title plays...
...support of successful Irish groups, directly and indirectly, that helped the new trend develop. Several of the groups on Straight Outta Ireland got career boosts by having singles released on labels sponsored by U2. "Bands like U2 and Sinead helped give people a sense of pride and potential," says Niall Stokes, editor of Hot Press, a Dublin music magazine. "U2 is revered, but the Irish are cynical by nature. They see ((U2 lead singer)) Bono and think, If that ridiculous idiot can do it, then...
...know Daniel Lanois at all, it's probably because you've read the credits on such superb albums as Peter Gabriel's So (1986), U2's The Joshua Tree (1987) and Achtung Baby (1991), Robbie Robertson's eponymous solo album (1987) and Bob Dylan's Oh Mercy! (1989). Lanois produced, or co-produced, all of those. But, on current evidence, he did significantly more than run levels and read meters. Those albums share an occasional brotherhood of sound -- hard, lovely, otherworldly -- but more significant, they are each rounded with a dream, part funky and part fantastic, that makes them seep...
Other acts scheduled to perform at theinaugural balls will include U2, the GratefulDead, Los Lobos and Fleetwood...