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Zoo TV: Live from Sydney is a concert video release by rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
 U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 from the "Zoomerang" leg of their Zoo TV Tour
Zoo TV Tour

The Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately-staged worldwide concert tour by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. Launched in support of the album Achtung Baby, the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 1992 through 1993....
. Recorded on Saturday, November 27, 1993 at Sydney Football Stadium on the band's featured stop in Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, Australia
Australia

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, it was released in May 1994 on VHS
VHS

The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by JVC and launched in Europe and Asia in September 1976, and the United States in June 1977....
 and Laserdisc
Laserdisc

The Laserdisc is an obsolete home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, 'Laservision, 'Disco-Vision, 'DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision...
, and re-released in September 2006 on DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
. It won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video has been awarded since 1984. A similar award for Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video has also been awarded since 1984....
 in 1994. The show was also broadcast around the world live on pay-per-view
Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view is the system by which a television audience can purchase events to view on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes....
.

In 2006, the show was released as the live album
Live album

A live album – commonly contrasted with a studio album – is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances. Live albums may be recorded at a single concert, or combine recordings made at multiple concerts....
 Zoo TV Live
Zoo TV Live

Zoo TV Live is a live album by the Irish people rock band U2. It was released exclusively to subscribing members of , replacing U2.COMmunication on 20 November 2006....
 to subscribers of U2.com.

was the second of two consecutive concerts in Sydney.






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Zoo TV: Live from Sydney is a concert video release by rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band....
 U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
 from the "Zoomerang" leg of their Zoo TV Tour
Zoo TV Tour

The Zoo TV Tour was an elaborately-staged worldwide concert tour by Republic of Ireland rock music band U2. Launched in support of the album Achtung Baby, the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 1992 through 1993....
. Recorded on Saturday, November 27, 1993 at Sydney Football Stadium on the band's featured stop in Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, it was released in May 1994 on VHS
VHS

The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by JVC and launched in Europe and Asia in September 1976, and the United States in June 1977....
 and Laserdisc
Laserdisc

The Laserdisc is an obsolete home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, 'Laservision, 'Disco-Vision, 'DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision...
, and re-released in September 2006 on DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
. It won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video
Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video

The Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video has been awarded since 1984. A similar award for Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video has also been awarded since 1984....
 in 1994. The show was also broadcast around the world live on pay-per-view
Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view is the system by which a television audience can purchase events to view on TV and pay for the private telecast of that event to their homes....
.

In 2006, the show was released as the live album
Live album

A live album – commonly contrasted with a studio album – is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances. Live albums may be recorded at a single concert, or combine recordings made at multiple concerts....
 Zoo TV Live
Zoo TV Live

Zoo TV Live is a live album by the Irish people rock band U2. It was released exclusively to subscribing members of , replacing U2.COMmunication on 20 November 2006....
 to subscribers of U2.com.

Footage and history

This was the second of two consecutive concerts in Sydney. The previous night was used as a rehearsal for the video shoot; however, it is now infamous as the only U2 concert ever played without all four band members present. Adam Clayton
Adam Clayton

Adam Charles Clayton , is the Bass guitar of the rock music band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965....
 was bed-ridden and unable to play, and was replaced by bass technician Stuart Morgan. Although on stage Bono
Bono

Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
 cited a virus as the reason for Clayton's not appearing that night, it has since been revealed that Clayton was too hungover
Hangover

A hangover describes the sum of unpleasant physiological effects following heavy consumption of drugs, particularly alcoholic beverages. The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache, nausea, sensitivity to photophobia and phonophobia, lethargy, dysphoria, and thirst....
 to play, as confirmed by Bono during an interview many years later. Clayton was back on stage the following night and appears in the video. Clayton reportedly no longer drinks and has cited the devastation he felt at missing the Friday concert in Sydney as his motivation for staying sober since.

Years later in a Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
 interview, Bono discussed this performance and its significance to the band. Clayton’s absence the previous night had caused a real situation amongst the band members and they were all wondering what long term impact the event would have. Bono said he wasn’t sure that they would ever play live again – he realized during the show that it could be the band's last live performance. As a result, the band's performance that night is particularly emotional, especially during "With or Without You
With or Without You

"With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....
," "Love Is Blindness
Love is Blindness

"Love Is Blindness" is the twelfth and final song from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby.Bono described the Edge's guitar solo as "a more eloquent prayer than anything I could write."...
," "Running to Stand Still" and "Can't Help Falling in Love
Can't Help Falling in Love

"Can't Help Falling in Love", by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, is a pop music song based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean Paul Egide Martini....
."

Track listing

  1. Show Opening
  2. "Zoo Station
    Zoo Station

    "Zoo Station" is the opening track from the 1991 U2 album Achtung Baby. It opened all concerts save one in the Zoo TV Tour. It is one of the first U2 songs with an electronic music feel, including distorted vocals and guitars....
    "
  3. "The Fly"
  4. "Even Better Than the Real Thing
    Even Better Than the Real Thing

    "Even Better Than the Real Thing" is the second song from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released in 1992 as the fourth single from the album....
    "
  5. "Mysterious Ways
    Mysterious Ways (song)

    "Mysterious Ways" is the eighth track on U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby and was released as the album's second single. When the covers to "Even Better Than the Real Thing", "The Fly ", "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses", and "Mysterious Ways" are arranged, a picture of the band members driving a Trabant is formed....
    "
  6. "One
    One (U2 song)

    "One" is the third single from U2's 1991 in music album, Achtung Baby, and was released in 1992 in music. While recording Achtung Baby, there was a rift between band members over the direction of the band's sound....
    "
  7. "Unchained Melody
    Unchained Melody

    "Unchained Melody" is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
    "
  8. "Until the End of the World
    Until the End of the World (song)

    "Until the End of the World" is the fourth track from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby. The lyrics describe a conversation between Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot....
    "
  9. "New Year's Day
    New Year's Day (song)

    "New Year's Day" is the third song and lead single from U2's 1983 album, War . The song is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and The Edge's keyboard....
    "
  10. "Numb
    Numb (U2 song)

    "Numb" is the third track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa and was released as the album's first single. The song is a repeating, monotonous mantra spoken by The Edge with a drumbeat sampled from the Leni Riefenstahl film Olympia ....
    "
  11. "Angel of Harlem
    Angel of Harlem

    "Angel of Harlem" is the second single from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum.It peaked at #9 on the UK singles chart, #8 on the Dutch Top 40, #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks....
    "
  12. "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
    Stay (Faraway, So Close!)

    "Stay " is the fifth track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa, and was released as the album's third single on November 22, 1993. It achieved notable success in the UK, where it reached #4, but had a very short chart run, and also Australia, where it reached #5....
    "
  13. "Satellite of Love
    Satellite of Love

    "Satellite of Love" is one of Lou Reed's best known songs. It was the second single from his 1972 solo album Transformer . At the time it did not achieve any chart success, though it later became a staple of his concerts and compilation albums....
    "
  14. "Dirty Day
    Dirty Day

    "Dirty Day" is the ninth track on U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. The lyrics "these days, days, days run away like horses over the hill", repeated over the outro to the song, are quoted by Bono in tribute to Charles Bukowski....
    "
  15. "Bullet the Blue Sky
    Bullet the Blue Sky

    "Bullet the Blue Sky" is the fourth track from U2's 1987 in music album, The Joshua Tree. Although never released as a single, "Bullet the Blue Sky" has been played at nearly every one of the band's live concerts since its first performance at the opening night of the Joshua Tree Tour on April 2, 1987....
    "
  16. "Running to Stand Still
    Running to Stand Still

    "Running to Stand Still" is the fifth track from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It is a soft, slow, piano-based song about a heroin-addicted woman from the Ballymun Flats area of Dublin, shown in the lyric "I see seven towers/But I only see one way out." The woman's addiction is reflected in lines such as "She runs through the streets/...
    "
  17. "Where the Streets Have No Name
    Where the Streets Have No Name

    "Where the Streets Have No Name" is a song by Irish rock music U2, from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It was released August 1987 as the third single from The Joshua Tree....
    "
  18. "Pride (In the Name of Love)
    Pride (In the Name of Love)

    "Pride " is the second song on U2's 1984 album The Unforgettable Fire and was released as the album's first single. Written about Martin Luther King, Jr., "Pride" is one of the band's most recognized songs, and appeared as the opening track on the compilation The Best of 1980-1990, and on the 2006 compilation U218 Singles....
    "
  19. "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car"
  20. "Lemon
    Lemon (U2 song)

    "Lemon" is the fourth song and second single from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. This song, more than any previous U2 song, showcases Bono's falsetto skills, aided by atmospheric vocals from The Edge and Brian Eno....
    "
  21. "With or Without You
    With or Without You

    "With or Without You" is the lead single from U2's 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. It has since become highly-acclaimed as one of the band's most popular songs....
    "
  22. "Love Is Blindness
    Love is Blindness

    "Love Is Blindness" is the twelfth and final song from U2's 1991 album, Achtung Baby.Bono described the Edge's guitar solo as "a more eloquent prayer than anything I could write."...
    "
  23. "Can't Help Falling in Love
    Can't Help Falling in Love

    "Can't Help Falling in Love", by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore, is a pop music song based on "Plaisir d'amour" by Jean Paul Egide Martini....
    "


All tracks played on that night appeared on the video, with the exception of "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World," which was played between "Numb" and "Angel of Harlem." Many speculate it was omitted because of a controversy about Bono sharing a glass of champagne with an underage girl on-stage, while others believe that the band was unsatisfied with their performance, however, producer Ned O'Hanlon stated in an on-line chat in 1996 that the concert was too long and needed to be cut for the video release.

Controversy

When the concert video was aired on television in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, many fans in the country became offended after they had heard that the phrase "BOMB JAPAN NOW," was displayed among the hundreds of various random words displayed during "The Fly." The phrase was said to have been an ironic
Irony

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 joke since the entire show was a satire
Satire

Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic arts and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improv...
 about the media. However, Japanese fans who did not understand the "joke" were very angry and upset. In August 2007, Zoo TV set designer Willie Williams
Willie Williams (lighting designer)

Willie Williams is a video director, stage designer and lighting designer for concerts, theatre, & multimedia projects. He is best known for his groundbreaking work with the rock band U2, and is recognized as one of the leading artists in this field....
 confirmed the fact that the offensive phrase was never part of the Zoo TV show, and that it was simply a figment of a reporter's imagination after viewing the hundreds of random words displayed during the song. In reality, the words displayed were shown in the following sequence — BOMB / WHORE
Prostitution

The word prostitution is used to indicate:1. The exposing or otherwise offering oneself or someone else with the purpose of tempting potential customers to exchange money or goods for the promise of cooperativeness in sexual intercourse from the exposed person;...
 / ULTIMATELY / JAPAN / CHAOS
Chaos

Chaos typically refers to unpredictability, and is the antithesis of cosmos.The word did not mean "disorder" in classical-period ancient Greece....
 / I / WANT / IT / NOW — which caused the reporter to "see" the phrase.

DVD release

Zoo TV: Live from Sydney was one of the first titles slated for release in the DVD format in 1997/98, and previews for it appeared on PolyGram DVDs of the time. But the PolyGram release was quietly canceled, leaving the DVD to languish until September 18, 2006, when it finally debuted under the Island Records label. The DVD was released in a one- and two-disc edition, similar to the DVD release of Vertigo: Live from Chicago
Vertigo: Live from Chicago

Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago is a concert video release by rock music band U2 from the first United States leg of their Vertigo Tour. Recorded on May 9 and May 10, 2005 at the United Center on the band's featured stop in Chicago, Illinois, it was released November 14, 2005 on DVD....
. Both editions featured the concert in its original 4:3 aspect ratio
Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements, such as the length and diameter of a rod....
, remixed with Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital

File:Dolby-Digital.svgDolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy data compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories....
 5.1, DTS
Digital Theater System

DTS , owned by DTS, Inc. , is a multi-channel digital surround sound format used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications....
 5.1, and PCM Stereo audio. The two-disc format featured the following bonus features on disc two:
  • Bonus Tracks
    • "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World" and "Desire" — taken live from the Zoo TV Special, Yankee Stadium
      Yankee Stadium

      The original Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York. It served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1923 in baseball to 1973 in baseball and after extensive renovations, from 1976 in baseball to 2008 in baseball....
      , New York
      New York City

      The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
      , August 29 and 30, 1992
    • "The Fly" and "Even Better than the Real Thing" — taken live from the "Stop Sellafield
      Sellafield

      Sellafield is a nuclear processing and former electricity generating site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England....
      " Concert, G-Mex Centre, Manchester
      Manchester

      Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
      , June 19, 1992
  • Documentaries
    • A Fistful of ZooTV
    • ZooTV – The Inside Story
    • Trabant
      Trabant

      The Trabant is an automobile produced by former East Germany auto maker HQM Sachsenring GmbH in Zwickau, Sachsen-Anhalt. It was the most common vehicle in East Germany, and was also exported to countries both inside and outside the communist bloc....
      land
  • Extras
    • Video Confessional
    • "Numb" karaoke
      Karaoke

      is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known popular music song which has no lead vocal....
       video remix
    • DVD-ROM features
    • Easter eggs