The Unforgettable Fire
Occupation
Bono (vocals, harmonica) The Edge (vocals, guitar, keyboard ) Adam Clayton (bass ) Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums) Brian Eno (vocals, keyboards) Daniel Lanois (vocals, guitar, percussion instrument)
The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2. The plate was developed in the first collaboration with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and was published in October 1984.
Background
The title of the panel refers to a series of images, the survivors of the atomic bomb attack have painted on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The band saw the pictures in the " Peace Museum " in Chicago. The museum was also an exhibition about the American civil rights activist Martin Luther King.
The album was recorded at Slane Castle Irish Castle and completed in Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin. In contrast to the assumption the ruin is on the cover of the plate not Slane Castle but Moydrum Castle, County Westmeath in Ireland. The picture was taken by Anton Corbijn in August 1984. The motif of the ruin was a direct copy of an existing image of the artist Simon Marsden, only the band in the foreground was the only difference between the two images in the selection of the exposure, the filters used and the location. The design came from the book " In Ruins: The once great houses of ireland " by Simon Marsden. This copyright infringement has cost an unknown but larger sum the band.
Tracks of the record
Video
For some of the songs on the album were produced videos. The directors of the videos were Meiert Avis, Barry Devlin and Donald Cammell.
The videos were grouped together on the movie "The Unforgettable Fire Collection" on VHS and released in 1985. On this purchase videocassette there was also a documentary (30 minutes long) about the history of the plate. The documentary was later again as bonus material on the DVD U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle and published at the 2009 released " Super Deluxe Edition" of the album.
Reception
The English Rolling Stone has chosen this album at number 374 of the 500 best albums of all time.