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The fine folks over at U2Tour.de have placed a fan review of the upcoming ZooTv DVD release (4 weeks away) online available in both German & English.

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Originally released on VHS in 1994, U2’s "Zoo TV — Live From Sydney," will make its DVD debut Sept. 19 via Island/UME. The release will be available both as a single-disc version and a double-disc package with a host of extras.
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‘Zoo TV Live From Sydney’ is set for DVD release in September. As well as the legendary live show, now digitally remastered, the new release comes with a bonus DVD of live tracks, mini-documentaries and the inimitable ‘Video Confessional’. Details here.
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U2: All finished and ready to go some time in March, Pop sees the band furthering their attempts at dance/rock crossover. Produced by Nellee Hooper, among others, there’s bits of techno and bits of trip-hop but it’s not an outright four to the floor dance extravaganza. The first single is Discotheque (reviewed in Single File) which is as good a place to start as any.

Single File

U2 go disco-tech
by Kevin Courtney

U2 “Discotheque” (Island)

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by Kevin Courtney

“ALL is quiet on New Year’s Day” goes the old U2 hit, but barely one week into 1997 the post-holiday silence has been broken by the rattle and hum of U2’s latest single Discotheque. It made its world exclusive debut on Dave Fanning’s 2FM radio show last night at 8:30 p.m. The single, the first track to be culled from U2’s forthcoming album (entitled Pop) was delivered personally to the Radio Centre in Montrose on Tuesday night by the band’s manager Paul McGuiness, who told Fanning: “I’m very superstitious. You have to be the first to play it.”

BBC Radio 1 will give the song its UK airing this morning, and the single goes on general release on February 10th. The group’s record company, Island Records, estimates the new album could sell 10 million copies, netting U2 about 30 million. It will also be the prelude to U2’s 1997 tour, details of which will be announced in March.

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U2’s concerts are magical affairs and, to a lesser degree, so are its albums. "The Joshua Tree" (Island Records), the Irish band’s fifth album since 1980, is a continuation of the sound and concerns heard on previous records.

The music, for the most part, is that of an overpowering guitar-led rock ‘n’ roll band, but U2 breaks its repetitious bent by tossing in some country guitar licks ("Running to Stand Still") and a bit of gospel vocalizing ("One Tree Hill"). If the music itself doesn’t steamroller you, the lyrics will.

Lyricist and vocalist Bono (Paul Hewson has dropped Vox as his stage surname) is one heavy dude. He tackles subjects ranging from U2roadie Greg Carroll’s death in a motorcycle accident ("One Tree Hill") to religious fait h ("I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For") to political prisoners ("Mothers of the Disappeared") to drug addiction ("Exit"). It’s all admirable and makes U2 this year’s social-conscience band.

"The Joshua Tree" came out of the pressing plant a million-seller, and who’s to deny the band commercial success? U2 has put its music, money and energy behind projects such as Live Aid, Self Aid (a Dublin benefit for unemployerymen) and the Amnesty International tour, but it would be nice to od-humored rock ‘n’ roll on an album. It doesn’t have to be mindleup a bit on the glo By Russ DeVault

- DEVAULT, RUSS Atlanta Journal