From atu2.com's Mat McGee Off the record column
"Here's more from the "stuff we didn't know until recently" file: There may not be a 3rd Best Of album.
I did an interview recently with...well, I'd rather not say who just yet. Let's just say "someone who would know these things," okay? Anyway, I've just finished transcribing the interview and it turns out that U2 is currently operating under a new record contract signed in 1999 -- a contract that supercedes both the 1993 6-album deal, and the 1998 contract that called for three Best Ofs to be released.
My interviewee recalled that, as part of the current record deal, Island Records may have a right to issue one more Best Of album, and it could include any material at all from the band's career -- '80s, '90s, '00s, you name it.
So while you might bet that Island will eventually take advantage of that right, it's apparently not a certainty that we'll see another U2 Best Of album.
(By the way, I'm hoping to have that interview online in the next week or so -- at least part of it. It's loooong.)"
1999 contract?
Anyone heard anything about it?
"Here's more from the "stuff we didn't know until recently" file: There may not be a 3rd Best Of album.
I did an interview recently with...well, I'd rather not say who just yet. Let's just say "someone who would know these things," okay? Anyway, I've just finished transcribing the interview and it turns out that U2 is currently operating under a new record contract signed in 1999 -- a contract that supercedes both the 1993 6-album deal, and the 1998 contract that called for three Best Ofs to be released.
My interviewee recalled that, as part of the current record deal, Island Records may have a right to issue one more Best Of album, and it could include any material at all from the band's career -- '80s, '90s, '00s, you name it.
So while you might bet that Island will eventually take advantage of that right, it's apparently not a certainty that we'll see another U2 Best Of album.
(By the way, I'm hoping to have that interview online in the next week or so -- at least part of it. It's loooong.)"
1999 contract?
Anyone heard anything about it?