Zooropa at 30: how U2 decided to 'put their madness on record'

If U2 ever feared that their early 1990s creative reboot would be a commercial failure, they need not have worried. Not only did Achtung Baby do typical U2 business — shifting seven million copies in its first three months — but they also sold 2.9 million tickets for the groundbreaking, audiovisual Zoo TV Tour that supported the album. And that was just for the three legs they did in 1992.

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