However, during the American leg of the tour, internal friction started to form between the members of the trio. Deborah Frost, writing for Rolling Stone , noticed “an ever widening personal gulf” between the band members, and quoted Harvey as saying “It makes me sad. I wouldn’t have got here without them. I needed them back then – badly. But I don’t need them anymore. We all changed as people.” Despite the tour’s personal downsides, footage from live performances was compiled and released on the long-form video Reeling with PJ Harvey (1993). The band’s final tour was to support the Irish rock band U2 in August 1993, after which the trio officially disbanded. In her final appearance on American television in September 1993 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , Harvey performed a solo version of “Rid of Me”. As Rid of Me sold substantially more copies than Dry , 4-Track Demos , a compilation album of demos for the album was released in October and inaugurated her career as a solo artist. In early 1994, it was announced that U2’s manager, Paul McGuinness , had become her manager.
Final tour with U2
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