ferball415
Acrobat
Would he have made the Apple SOI deal? Dunno if he would’ve conceptualized it, but he sure as hell would’ve taken it. Vertigo was an iTunes commercial hit. And Paul loved HITS. If Guy was behind that idea, however, the band would’ve not heard it and would’ve released a new album to… little fanfare? The first single that kinda sounded like the previous two album singles? Honestly kinda hard to say.
Actually recall him opining on this in 2015 Irish Times interview:
“Who knows?” he says. “I wasn’t involved . . . They apologised for it afterwards, saying it was an imposition. I think it was positioned wrongly. If they’d made it ‘tick this box and you can receive the U2 album’, it would not have given offence. People were unhappy about having something arrive that they hadn’t asked for. It was easy enough to delete . . . But I think that it should have been handled differently.”
Good interview actually: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/former-u2-manager-paul-mcguinness-cracking-crime-on-the-cote-d-azur-1.2237369