October (U2 album)

Occupation

Bono (vocals ) The Edge (vocals, guitar) Adam Clayton (bass ) Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums)

October is the second album by Irish rock band U2, which was recorded from July to August 1981 in the Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite. Sound engineer was Paul Thomas, Kevin Maloney assisted. October was published on 12 October 1981.

Themes and motifs

The thematic focus of the album is on religion and faith. This is particularly evident in the plays Gloria ( with the Latin chorus " Gloria in te domine / Gloria Exultate " ), With a Shout (Jerusalem) and Tomorrow. But the motif of blindness will be taken up in the song I Threw a Brick Through a Window:

" No one ... no one is blind

Than he who will not see

No one ... no one is blind

Than me "

The title song October, played by The Edge on piano, touched with exactly 28 words to the interplay of flowering and transience another spitituelles motif.

Background

The recordings for the album were marked by many difficulties, including Bono was stolen in 1981 in Portland / USA during a concert shortly before the shooting, a bag in which was a notebook with all irreplaceable lyrics for the album. During the recording, the band was forced to improvise many of the passages of text. After Bono asked in the following 23 years at concerts in Portland again and again for reference only and handed on 23 October 2004 a 44 -year-old woman's bag and its contents to Bono. She had found in the attic of a tenement house.

Title list

Fire and Gloria were released as a single