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U2 3D is a 2008 American-produced 3D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006. Directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington, the film contains performances of 14 songs, including tracks from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2004), the album that the tour supported.
Live performances of the song appear on the DVDs Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago and U2 360° at the Rose Bowl, the bonus disc of U218 Singles, and on the 2005 U2.com subscriber's release U2.COMmunication. [15] [52] [53] [54] The U2.COMmunication version is an audio rip of the performance from Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago. [54]
The Fly" is the seventh song on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's first single. It has been described as "the sound of four men chopping down the Joshua Tree." [35] The song's subject is that of a phone call from someone in Hell who enjoys being there and telling the person on the other line what he has learned. [36 ...
Song Artist Film Ref. "2HB" Roxy Music: Casablanca [1] [2] "Alice" Avril Lavigne: Alice in Wonderland [3] "The American Nightmare" Ice Nine Kills: A Nightmare on Elm Street [4] "Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman" The Tubes: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman [5] "Attack Ships on Fire" Revolting Cocks: Blade Runner [6] "Brownswille Girl" Bob Dylan: The ...
Bernard Herrmann's score for Vertigo consists of 42 cues, which comprise about 74 minutes of music heard in the film. (The small bits of source music used in the film, such as the Mozart piece heard on Midge's phonograph or the music Scottie and Judy dance to late in the film, were not composed by Herrmann and are therefore not considered as part of the score.)
The song was an international success, bolstered by its usage in a television advertisement featuring the band for Apple's iPod digital music player. The song lent its name to the band's 2005–2006 Vertigo Tour. In the United States, "Vertigo" peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Alternative Songs chart. It topped ...
On 22 November 2024, U2's 11th studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, was reissued to commemorate its 20th anniversary; an audio album of Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago was included in deluxe box-set editions of the reissue. [3] Coinciding with the anniversary release, the concert video was livestreamed on YouTube. [4]
The idea for the music video originated from director Joseph Kahn, and is based on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, a film dealing with acrophobia, which the band were fans of. [2] In a June 28, 1997 issue of Billboard, Kahn said "I always thought Vertigo had an interesting music-video feel to it because of the rich graphics in the film."