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After already hitting New England sydney harbour hotels earlier in their famous Zoo TV Tour, U2 returned for three concerts in four nights at Foxboro Stadium. The shows, like every one on the tour, exemplified the drastic departure in the band s sound between their newest album Achtung Baby and their previous work.
Spanning nearly two years and four continents, the tour first showed the kind of ambition U2 had as a live act. It came after the band s previous tour for The Joshua Tree delivered a minimalist show that concerned their sociopolitical interests. The infamous album documentary Rattle and Hum began to paint a picture of U2 as a band that took themselves too seriously, even painting them as pretentious from a Boston Globe review.
Of course, their album Achtung Baby reinvented the band s sound and image, and the Zoo TV tour was a huge extension of that. They wanted to convey sensory overload with the elaborate video and lighting displays that would accompany the band as they performed, as a result of the de-sensitizing effect mass media can have on its consumers.
Each concert on the Zoo TV tour would have DJs spinning records between sets, with the main set from U2 containing most of Achtung Baby performed consecutively to really drive home the band s new sound. The Foxboro setlist from night 1 started right off with five Achtung songs in a row. Bono even took the stage as a few different alter egos like The Fly and Mirror Ball Man throughout sydney harbour hotels the band s main set.
No video specifically from the Foxboro show is available online, but here s a clip of One and Unchained Melody played live in Sydney, Australia in 1993 to give you an idea of the epic scale of the concerts.
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