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• [http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/interview-u2-producer-steve-lillywhite-alchemy-hit-making Lillywhite interview on "Vertigo"]

{{Infobox Album

| Name = Songs of Ascent

| Type = Studio

| Artist = U2

| Cover =

| Released =

| Recorded = June 2007 – 2009

• Hanover Quay Studios (Dublin, Ireland)
• Riad Hotel Yacout (Fez, Morocco)
• Platinum Sound Recording Studios (New York City, United States)
• Olympic Studios (London, England)

| Genre = Rock

| Length =

| Label = Interscope

| Producer = Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite

| Reviews =

| Last album = No Line on the Horizon
(2009)

| This album = Songs of Ascent
(2009)

| Next album =

| Misc =

}}

Songs of Ascent is the provisional title for the upcoming thirteenth studio album by the Irish rock band U2. In an interview posted on 15 February 2009 with Sean O'Hagan of The Guardian, Bono stated that U2 would release another album by the end of the year consisting of material recorded during the No Line on the Horizon sessions, and that it will be "a more meditative album on the theme of pilgrimage".{{cite web | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/15/u2-no-line-on-the-horizon | title = The Wanderers | publisher = The Guardian | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | date = 2009-02-15 | accessdate = 2009-02-15}} The album is intended to be a sister release to No Line on the Horizon in the same way that Zooropa was to Achtung Baby.{{cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/03/04/u2-talk-horizon-follow-up-spider-man-musical-in-rolling-stone-cover-story/ |title=U2 Talk “Horizon” Follow Up, Spider-Man Musical in Rolling Stone Cover Story |publisher=Rolling Stone |date=2009-03-04 |accessdate=2009-03-04}} The first single is intended to be "Every Breaking Wave", one of the final tracks to be cut from No Line on the Horizon.

• [http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/10/01/u2-beyond-the-horizon-plans-for-next-album-take-shape/ RS notes]
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/u2s-new-album-we-believe-in-the-songs.html USA Today] info

• "Beautiful Day"
• PopMart Sarajevo (Preserved as archive of original version)
• Passengers
• Chobits
• "Two Hearts Beat as One"
• "Kite"
• "Heartland"

• [http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=2024168 National Post] attendence figures, Q&A with McGuinness
• [http://www.livedaily.com/news/20238.html Live Daily] Giants Stadium record more than Pope
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/u2-turns-360-stadium-tour-into-attendance-shattering-sellouts-1.html USA Today] on building

• [http://www.atu2.com/news/achtung-bono.html NME interview]
• [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/me_intr4.html jazzthetik interview] (German magazine)
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/?Key=&Scope=&Year=1994&Cat=&Action=Search&x=78&y=23 1994 news archive]
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/?Page=2&Key=&Year=1995&Cat=&Scope=&Action=Search 1995 news archive] (Part 1)
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/?Page=2&Key=&Year=1995&Cat=&Scope=&Action=Search 1995 news archive] (Part 2)
• [http://www.atu2.com/news/?Key=&Scope=&Year=1996&Cat=&Action=Search&x=63&y=20 1996 news archive]
• U2 by U2
• Stories Behind Every Song
• 25 years
• Best of U2 magazine
• [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEy5SM3W_Rc Interview] (Part 1 from Promo)
• [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_qUi7KO2QE Interview] (Part 2 from Promo)

After "Stand Up Comedy" and "Fez", from No Line on the Horizon that leaves:

• "No Line on the Horizon"
• "Moment of Surrender"
• "Cedars of Lebanon"
• "Winter"

;Others I'd like to try and find information on for writing

• "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"
• "City of Blinding Lights"
• "Beautiful Day"
• "Acrobat"
• "Miracle Drug"
• "Walk On"
• "Always Forever Now"

{{Song infobox|

| Name = Cedars of Lebanon

| Cover =

| Border = yes

| Type = Song

| Artist = U2

| alt Artist =

| Album = No Line on the Horizon

| Published =

| Released = 27 February 2009

| track_no = 11

| Recorded =

| Genre = Rock

| Length = 4:13

| Writer = U2, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois (music)
Bono (lyrics)

| Label = Island

| Producer = Lanois

| Background =

| Tracks =

| prev = "Breathe"

| prev_no = 10

| next = "No Line on the Horizon 2"

| next_no = 12

| Misc =

}}

"Cedars of Lebanon" is a song by Irish rock band U2 and the eleventh track on their 2009 album No Line on the Horizon.

"Cedars of Lebanon" was written from the perspective of a journalist covering a war overseas.{{cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/25328725/u2_break_down_no_line_on_the_horizon |title=U2 Break Down 'No Line on the Horizon' |work=Rolling Stone|first=Brian |last=Hiatt |date=2009-01-22 |accessdate=2009-02-15}} The song's melody was based on a sample of "Against the Sky", a track Eno and Lanois had collaborated on with Harold Budd for the 1984 album The Pearl, with the band noting that the ambience of the song was "like a direct throwback to the early 80s".{{cite web |url=http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2009/03/10/behind-the-scenes-on-u2-s-no-line-on-the-horizon-a-track-by-track-exclusive-with-producer-co-writer-daniel-lanois.aspx |title=U2's No Line On The Horizon: A track-by-track exclusive with producer/co-writer Daniel Lanois |work=National Post |first=Brad |last=Frenette |date=2009-03-10 |accessdate=2009-09-27 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5kfqFaK30 |archivedate=2009-10-20}}{{cite music release notes |Last=Owens |First=Catherine |Title=No Line on the Horizon |Artist=U2 |Publisher=Interscope Records |PID=B0012638-00 |Format=Box format hardback book}} The final verse is a condemnation of the Iraq War.{{cite web |url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/taking-care-of-business--the-u2-interview-1698937.html |title=Taking care of business |work=Independent |first=Brian |last=Hiatt |date=2009-04-05 |accessdate=2009-04-07}}

• [http://www.u2.com/ U2.com]

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{{Infobox Song

| Name = Acrobat

| Type = Song

| Artist = U2

| Album = Achtung Baby

| Released = 19 November 1991

| track_no = 11

| Recorded = October 1990 – September 1991 at Hansa Ton Studios in Berlin, Elsinore in Dublin, and Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin

| Genre = Alternative rock

| Length = 4:30

| Writer = U2 (music), Bono (lyrics)

| Label = Island Records

| Producer = Daniel Lanois

| prev = "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)"

| prev_no = 10

| next = "Love Is Blindness"

| next_no = 12

}}

"Acrobat" is a song by rock band U2 and the eleventh track from their 1991 album Achtung Baby.

U2's approach to recording Achtung Baby had been to "throw out" all that they knew, to work with music they didn't know, in a place (Berlin) that they didn't know, and to re-arrange roles and responsibilities within the band. This was an alienating experience for long-time collaborator and producer Daniel Lanois, particularly on recording "Acrobat". Bono described him as trying get the band to play to their strengths while Bono was trying to experiment and play to their weaknesses.Stokes (1996), p. 108

It features {{frac|12|8}} time signature and has The Edge playing a heavily distorted tremolo.

Lyrically, it is one of the most personal on Achtung Baby with Bono acknowledging personal weakness, contradictions, and inadequacy. Bono's long standing friend, artist Gavin Friday, suggests its chorus "Don't let the bastards grind you down" is aimed at the press.

The theme of moral confusion was later used in U2's song "Zooropa" from the 1993 album of the same name.{{cite journal |url=http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2613077.html |title=The Magical Mystery Tour |last=Jackson |first=Joe |date=19 May 1993 |work=Hot Press |accessdate=2009 November 22 |format=subscription required}} The coda in "Zooropa" features the lyric "dream out loud", which Bono included as a reference to "Acrobat".Stokes (2005), pp. 111–112 The phrase "dream out loud" was first used by Bono during the Lovetown Tour in 1989,de la Parra (2003), p. 136 and has appeared several times in U2's work since then, including the song "Always"{{Cite web |url=http://www.u2.com/discography/lyrics/lyric/song/14 |title=Lyrics: Always |work=U2.com |publisher=Live Nation |accessdate=25 November 2010}} — a B-side to the "Beautiful Day" single released in 2000{{cite music release notes |Name=Beautiful Day |Type=single |Publisher=Island Records |PID=CID766 |Location=Europe |Year=2000 |Artist=U2 |Format=CD}}  — and being spoken by Bono in the PopMart: Live from Mexico City concert release.{{cite video |people=Mallet, David (director) |date=1998 |title=PopMart: Live from Mexico City |medium=Concert film |publisher=Island Records}}

===Reception===

The Kitchener Record felt that the song added to the band's "tremendous presence", saying that it showed the band's commitment to each individual song and that it "indicates a very clear evolution in Bono's lyricism and the band's clear artistic focus."{{cite news |title=Achtung, rock fans : U2 hasn't lost its grip on first place |newspaper=Kitchener Record |location=Kitchener |date=28 November 1991 |page=C9}}

During the fifth episode of the fifteenth series of Top Gear, presentor Jeremy Clarkson used "Acrobat" in his film commemorating the life of the late Formula One champion Ayrton Senna. The piece was set against a montage of Senna duelling with Nigel Mansell, including their close battle in the final laps of the 1992 Monaco Grand Prix.{{cite episode |people=Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, The Stig |series=Top Gear |episodelink=Top Gear (series 15) |title=Series 15, episode 5 |network=BBC 2 |city=Dunsfold Park |airdate=25 July 2008}}

In the book Reading Rock and Roll, Robyn Brothers compared the song to "Zooropa", stating that both reference a response to uncertainty and an unavoidable feeling of alienation.Brothers (1999), pp. 251, 257

• List of covers of U2 songs - Acrobat

==Notes==

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• {{cite book |last=Brothers |first=Robyn |editor=Kevin J. H. Dettmar and William Richey |title=Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics |year=1999 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=0-231-11399-4 |chapter=Time to Heal, 'Desire' Time}}
• {{cite book |last=de la Parra |first=Pimm Jal |title=U2 Live: A Concert Documentary |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=New York |year=2003 |edition=second |isbn=978-0-71199-198-9}}
• {{cite book |last=Stokes |first=Niall |authorlink=Niall Stokes |title=Into The Heart: The Stories Behind Every U2 Song |publisher=Harper Collins Publishers |year=1996 |isbn=0-7322-6036-1}}

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{{Infobox Song

| Name = Always Forever Now

| Type = Song

| Artist = Passengers

| Album = Original Soundtracks 1

| Released = 6 November 1995

| track_no = 4

| Recorded = Westside Studios, London,
Hanover Quay, Dublin, 1995

| Genre = Alternative rock, experimental

| Length = 6:24

| Writer = U2, Brian Eno (music)
Bono (lyrics)

| Composer =

| Label = Island Records

| Producer = Brian Eno

| prev = "Your Blue Room"

| prev_no = 3

| next = "A Different Kind of Blue"

| next_no = 5

| Misc =

}}

"Always Forever Now" is a song by Passengers, a group composed of rock band U2 and producer Brian Eno. It is the fourth track on the group's only release, the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1.

U2 and producer Brian Eno formed Passengers as a side-project during the preliminary recording sessions for U2's 1997 album, Pop. Their intention was to record a soundtrack for Peter Greenaway's 1996 film The Pillow Book as a warm-up before the Pop sessions proper. Though the plan did not come to fruition, Eno suggested that they continue recording for imaginary films. U2 were unsure of the idea at first, but agreed after Eno told them that producing radio hits was not the goal of the collaboration.

U2 had frequently improvised in the past, and during the Original Soundtracks 1 sessions they engaged in free-form jamming to video clips from various films. Eno stated, "Listening to the original improvisations as they came off the floor, you feel the excitement of the process ... You have to be careful not to disturb the organic flow of the thing."{{cite news |title=Eno: The story behind Original Soundtracks 1 |publisher=Knight-Ridder News Service |date=5 November 1995 |first=Tom |last=Moon}} The group brought in producer Howie B to record and mix some of the tracks after several hours of jam sessions had been recorded.

Part of the group's intent in creating Original Soundtracks 1 had been to make a "night-time" record.{{harvnb|Stokes|2005|p=196}} Lead vocalist Bono said, "It feels like it's been set on the bullet train in Tokyo. Every record has a location, a place where you enjoy listening to it, whether that be a bedroom or a club, well this record location is a fast train. It's slo-mo music though. But it has an odd sense of speed in the background."{{cite news |title=Achtung Bono! |work=NME |date=21 October 1995 |first=Andy |last=Richardson}} He also noted that when creating works for soundtracks, the visual suggestion from the music is more important than the story told by the lyrics. With this in mind, the band had tried to create "visual music" when recording, continuing a trend that began with their 1993 song "Zooropa".{{cite album-notes |title=Original Soundchat 1: Radio Documentary |notestitle=Short form Interview with Music |bandname=Passengers |year=1995 |publisher=Island Records |format=CD |publisherid=OST 2}}{{sfn|U2|2006|pp=247–248}}

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• [http://www.u2.com/ U2.com]

• [http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/07/14/u2-pop-2/ MTV reflection]

• [http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE59P5IM20091026 Reuters/Hollywood Reporter]

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