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Studio album by U2
Released 1 October 1984
Recorded 7 May – 5 August 1984
Studio
Slane Castle (County Meath)
Windmill Lane (Dublin)
Genre
Art rockpost-punk
Length 42:38
Label Island
Producer
Brian EnoDaniel Lanois
U2 chronology
U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky
(1984) The Unforgettable Fire
(1984) Wide Awake in America
(1985)

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and released on 1 October 1984 by Island Records. The band wanted to pursue a new musical direction following the harder-hitting rock of their previous album, War (1983). As a result, they employed Eno and Lanois to produce and assist in their experimentation with a more ambient sound. The resulting change in direction was at the time the band`s most dramatic. The album`s title is a reference to `The Unforgettable Fire`, an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Recording began in May 1984 at Slane Castle, where the band lived, wrote, and recorded to find new inspiration. The album was completed in August 1984 at Windmill Lane Studios. It features atmospheric sounds and lyrics that lead vocalist Bono describes as `sketches`. `Pride (In the Name of Love)` and `MLK` are lyrical tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.[1][2]

The Unforgettable Fire received generally favourable reviews from critics and produced the band`s biggest hit at the time, `Pride (In the Name of Love)`, as well as the live favourite `Bad`. A 25th anniversary edition of the album was released in October 2009.

Background
`We knew the world was ready to receive the heirs to the Who. All we had to do was to keep doing what we were doing and we would become the biggest band since Led Zeppelin, without a doubt. But something just didn`t feel right. We felt we had more dimension than just the next big anything, we had something unique to offer. The innovation was what would suffer if we went down the standard rock route. We were looking for another feeling.`

—Bono, on The Unforgettable Fire`s new direction.[3]
U2 feared that following the overt rock of their 1983 album War and the War Tour, they were in danger of becoming another `shrill`, `sloganeering arena-rock band`.[4] Following their concert at Dublin`s Phoenix Park Racecourse in August 1983, one of the final dates of the War Tour, lead vocalist Bono spoke in metaphors about the group breaking up and reforming with a different direction. In the 10th issue of U2 Magazine, released in February 1984, Bono hinted at radical changes on the next album saying that he could not `sleep at night with the thought of it all` and that they were `undertaking a real departure`.[5] As bassist Adam Clayton recalls, `We were looking for something that was a bit more serious, more arty.`[3]

After completing the War Tour in Japan late that year,[6] U2 rehearsed at Bono`s seaside home in a Martello tower in Bray, County Wicklow. During this time, early versions of the songs `Pride (In the Name of Love)`, `The Unforgettable Fire`, and `A Sort of Homecoming` were composed.[3]

All lyrics are written by Bono; all music is composed by U2

Side one
No. Title Length
1. `A Sort of Homecoming` 5:28
2. `Pride (In the Name of Love)` 3:48
3. `Wire` 4:19
4. `The Unforgettable Fire` 4:55
5. `Promenade` 2:35
Side two
No. Title Length
1. `4th of July` 2:12
2. `Bad` 6:09
3. `Indian Summer Sky` 4:17
4. `Elvis Presley and America` 6:23
5. `MLK` 2:31
Total length: 42:38
Notes
In 1995, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab remastered the album and released it as a special gold CD. This edition has slightly different running times, most notably an extended 2:39 version of the instrumental `4th of July`.

In 1985, the band also released the supplementary Wide Awake in America EP, which offers live performances of `Bad` and `A Sort of Homecoming` along with two B-sides (previously unavailable in North America).

Personnel
U2

Bono – lead vocals
The Edge – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Adam Clayton – bass guitar
Larry Mullen Jr. – drums
Additional musicians

Brian Eno – additional vocals, instruments, treatments
Daniel Lanois – additional vocals, instruments, treatments
Paul Barrett – Fairlight
Chrissie Hynde – backing vocals on `Pride (In the Name of Love)` (thanked as `Mrs. Christine Kerr` on the record sleeve)[70]
Peter Gabriel – vocals on `A Sort of Homecoming` (Daniel Lanois Remix)
Technical

Daniel Lanois – production, engineering
Brian Eno – production, engineering
Kevin Killen – additional engineering
Randy Ezratty – assistant engineering
Noel Kelehan – string arrangements
Steve Averill – sleeve design
Anton Corbijn – sleeve design, photography