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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: U2 and The Joshua Tree at 30 with Daniel Lanois Part 2
Description: Whenever an artist goes into the studio, they hope for the best but expect the worst…you want it the album to sell and turn you into a global superstar with all the rights and privileges thereto…but there is no way to predict how the public will react to what you release…
You can throw all the money you want a song, an album, a band and there is zero guarantee that it will be successful…yet people will always try because every once in a while, something remarkable happens…
An album is a critical s...