Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith cover U2 on 'Achtung Baby' tribute album

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Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith cover U2 on 'Achtung Baby' tribute album

Mon 12 Sep 2011

[Source: NME.com] Jack White, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith and Damien Rice have been lined up to cover U2 on a 20th anniversary tribute to the Irish band's 1991 LP 'Achtung Baby'.

The quartet have covered 'Love Is Blindness', 'So Cruel', 'Until The End Of The World' and 'One' respectively on the album, which has been commissioned by Q magazine.

Frontman Bono revealed details of the LP during a press conference to promote new U2 documentary From The Sky Down', which is opening the Toronto International Film Festival.

He commented: "It's strange, because when I hear the album, when U2 do it, all I hear is what's wrong with it. But when I heard all these artists doing it, I thought, 'It's really good'."

Speaking to Reuters on the red carpet at the festival, the singer also revealed he finds the documentary "excruciating" to watch, adding: "I don't think really it's a film about our band in as much as it's a film about the creative process. If you're interested in that, you're going to be interested in this film I think."