lazarus
Blue Crack Supplier
Why does everyone worship at the throne of Eno? Lanois has had much more of a tangible songwriting influence on them, and produced much of AB without Eno. Eno helped them to branch out and include more ambience and electronic tones, he is the the inventor of every successful era for U2.
Lanois was in opposition to the direction they were going in with AB; didn't he even tell them they were ruining their career?
He may have done the majority of the production work, but make no mistake about it, the influence of Eno's strategies and suggestions are what took them as far down the dark path as it did.
If you haven't read Eno's 1991 article for Rolling Stone, "Bringing Up Baby", I suggest you do and then come back here and tell me he isn't worth being worshipped, even if he downplays his role in the work.
Bringing Up Baby