Achtung Baby & Zooropa Promo Vids

[analogk]

Too bad these won't be included with the Achtung Baby Remaster. 

Two promo videos.   These may have been included in the Achtung Baby Solicitation Pack - http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/pr147.html.

Promo video 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu36d517CtE

Promo video 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqjqSodLuo


Second video:
Includes some concert footage and a lot of the visuals used during the Zoo TV - Zooropa tour legs.  I really like the black and white photocopy shots of each band member.  These were used during "Zoo Station" and some of them ended up in the Zooropa album booklet with color.

http://youtu.be/QEt-uniKdzk

[Falling At Your Feet]

Thanks for sharing these. Amazing stuff.

I had seen some of the footage, but certainly not all of it. You could be right, it looks like it could be from the Solicitation Pack, but the timings are slightly different from the times given on U2 Wanderer.


Interesting to see that "Until The End Of The World" is shown as a proposed single(3.30 Promo Video 1), using the Mysterious Ways cover. Of course, it never got released as a single unfortunately, possibly. because the song was already committed to the film soundtrack to Wim Wenders film.

[miryclay]

Those are great indeed. Just goes to show how much video has changed since U2 embraced it so much in 93.

[analogk]

Thanks for sharing these. Amazing stuff.

I had seen some of the footage, but certainly not all of it. You could be right, it looks like it could be from the Solicitation Pack, but the timings are slightly different from the times given on U2 Wanderer.


Interesting to see that "Until The End Of The World" is shown as a proposed single(3.30 Promo Video 1), using the Mysterious Ways cover. Of course, it never got released as a single unfortunately, possibly. because the song was already committed to the film soundtrack to Wim Wenders film.

In my opinion this was by far the best era of promotional material by the band   Going from the black and white of the Joshua Tree and Rattle and Hum albums to full color for Achtung Baby was quite something.  I'd still like to see the Solicitation Pack video and do a comparison to the links I posted above.  UTEOTW would have been a great single. I wonder what version they planned on using.  I have the album version, the baby version, and another version which might be the soundtrack version.  I also found this version which includes a slightly different intro and a slightly different ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpZSvOuKgNM

The Zooropa promo is great, but not as great as the Achtung Baby promos.  I know the band was in the middle of touring so I doubt they had much time to work on that promo.  Nevertheless, its still awesome with all of the visuals.  One thing I noticed that didn't show up in the Zooropa promo were the photocopies of feet.  A picture of a pair of feet is on the "Numb" video single.  I assume they're Edge's feet since he sang the song.

[popeyebonaparte]

U2 also appeared on ABC in Concert in 1993 promoting "Zooropa". The videos are the same, just that instead of promotional texts, there are interviews in between the songs.

[analogk]

U2 also appeared on ABC in Concert in 1993 promoting "Zooropa". The videos are the same, just that instead of promotional texts, there are interviews in between the songs.

Found it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqkQxYEz1Dk

Some more photocopy footage included.