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Live from Paris (2008)

Where the lyrics of Live from Paris take you, and where it was really made.

The concert first appeared as a bonus DVD in a 2007 box set, and only a year later as an audio download sold exclusively on iTunes.

Key places

Paris, 4 July 1987 (1987)

Recording site Hippodrome de Vincennes — The concert was recorded at Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris on 4 July 1987, during the Joshua Tree Tour. The recording later became this live album and the concert video. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live from Paris is a concert video and live album by Irish rock band U2
• Recorded at Hippodrome de Vincennes in Paris, France, on 4 July 1987
• Recorded during the Joshua Tree Tour
• Almost the full Paris gig is included on the release
• Contains 18 tracks in total
• Setlist drawn mainly from The Joshua Tree, The Unforgettable Fire and War, plus songs from Boy and October
• The concert was first released in video form on a bonus DVD
• That DVD was part of the remastered box set of The Joshua Tree, released 20 November 2007
• The audio followed a year later as a digital download, 21 July 2008
• The audio release was sold exclusively on the iTunes Store

Background

• The show took place during the Joshua Tree Tour, the band's world tour
• The Joshua Tree remastered box set was released 20 November 2007, with this concert on its bonus DVD
• In 2008 the same concert was released as a digital music download

Recording

• Recorded live at Hippodrome de Vincennes, Paris, on 4 July 1987
• Bono: lead vocals, harmonica, guitar
• The Edge: guitars, backing vocals, piano, bass on '40', keyboard on 'MLK'
• Adam Clayton: bass, backing vocals on several songs, guitar on '40'
• Larry Mullen Jr.: drums, percussion, backing vocals

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976 by teenage pupils of Mount Temple Comprehensive School.
• Members: Bono (lead vocals), the Edge (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Adam Clayton (bass), Larry Mullen Jr. (drums).
• The band was first named Feedback, then The Hype, and in March 1978 took the name U2.
• They won the Pop Group '78 talent contest in Limerick and signed with Island Records in 1980.

Career

• Debut album Boy (1980); War (1983) was their first UK number-one album.
• The Joshua Tree (1987) made them international stars and was their greatest critical and commercial success, selling about 25 million copies.
• The band reinvented their sound in the 1990s with Achtung Baby (1991) and the Zoo TV Tour.
• Their 2009–2011 360° Tour held records for the highest-grossing concert tour until 2019.
• In 2023 they released Songs of Surrender and began the U2:UV Achtung Baby Live residency at Sphere in Las Vegas.
• Estimated record sales: about 170 million worldwide; 22 Grammy Awards; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (2005).

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• The concert was first released in video form on the bonus DVD of The Joshua Tree remastered box set, 20 November 2007
• The audio followed on 21 July 2008 as a digital download sold exclusively on the iTunes Store
• Almost the full Parisian gig is included in the release
• Three cover songs are left out of the release, and they are also absent from the Joshua Tree remaster and the iTunes audio release

Records

• The release contains 18 tracks from the Paris concert
• Tracks taken from several albums: The Joshua Tree, The Unforgettable Fire, War, Boy and October
• Some tracks appear as snippets, such as 'Exodus' after 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For' and 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' after 'With or Without You'
• 'Party Girl' is listed as taken from the single 'A Celebration'

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Two covers were played before 'I Will Follow', and a third was played between 'The Electric Co.' and 'Bad'; all three are left out of the release
• 'Party Girl' is credited to the single 'A Celebration' in the track list of the Portuguese edition
• The Italian edition describes almost all of the Paris concert as included, excluding those three covers
• The release has two medleys or snippets: 'Exodus' and 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' appear as short pieces attached to other songs

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

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