Release of album Achtung Baby

Achtung Baby was released in November 1991. The album represented a calculated change in musical and thematic style, their most dramatic since The Unforgettable Fire . Sonically, the record incorporated influences from alternative rock , dance, and industrial music, and Bono referred to it as “four men chopping down the Joshua Tree”. Thematically, it was a more introspective and personal record; it was darker, yet more flippant than the band’s previous work. Commercially and critically, it has been one of the band’s most successful albums. It produced five hit singles, including ” The Fly “, ” Mysterious Ways “, and “One”, and was a crucial part of the band’s early 1990s reinvention. In 1993, Achtung Baby won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Like The Joshua Tree , many publications have cited the record as one of rock’s greatest.