40-Foot Lemon

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Definitive Account of U2's Most Interesting Era</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When U2 released</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Pop</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in 1997 the Irish quartet had been on a decade-long run of hits that included </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Joshua Tree</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Achtung Baby</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. The band's Zoo TV tour in the early 1990s was a multimedia extravaganza that dazzled critics and sold out venues the world over. But </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pop</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> turned out to be U2's worst-selling album and the accompanying PopMart tour played to half-filled stadiums and earned the nickname Flop Mart in the press. The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pop</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> era was left behind but many U2 fans never forgot what Bono once called the best thing we've ever done.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>40-Foot Lemon: The Complete Story of U2's Pop & PopMart</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> takes readers into the studio and onto the stage during U2's most experimental and ambitious era. It chronicles the difficult and expensive yearlong recording of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pop</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> where the band worked with five producers in multiple studios on two continents striving to create a masterpiece. Instead with tour dates already booked U2 handed in an unfinished album.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>40-Foot Lemon</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> follows U2 around the globe on PopMart the biggest tour in rock history and featuring the world's largest TV screen a 10-story golden arch a sofa-sized olive on a 100-foot martini stick and a giant lemon disco ball that did all sorts of tricks. When it was working. PopMart struggled to fill seats in the U.S. but it shattered records in Europe and South America playing to packed stadiums and making history from Sarajevo to Santiago. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>40-Foot Lemon</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the definitive account of U2 at their most interesting.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>