80s Music Central News

U2's Edge has been reticent to give too much away for fear of starting a rumor mill. I'm [nervous] about that—after what happened with Pop....the way people started making judgments even before they ever heard it.” The Edge projected a wrap date of sometime in the summer of 1999, but “we don't want to set a firm deadline because we don't want to get into the same trap that we did last time. We made a mistake of establishing a deadline too far in advance with Pop. The last month turned out to be a real scramble to get it out before the PopMart tour.” He continued, “We might have wanted another week to just sit back and relax with it...so that we wouldn't have had to deliver it to the record company the day it was finished, which is what we ended up doing.” The band currently has a new album in the works with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois as well as the tour that will likely follow its release.