Studio Crew: Sam O'Sullivan: Drum technician and crew co-ordinator. Fraser McAlister: Guitar technician. Des Broadbery: Programming keyboard and guitar technician. Stuart Morgan: Bass guitar technician. Colm "Rab" McAlister: Studio tech. Joe O'Herlihy: Monitoring. David Herbert: Studio Manager. Gavin Friday: Consulting Poptician.  Anne Louise Kelly: Album Production Manager. Candida Bottaci: Album Production Assistant. Suzanne Doyle: Studio Band Management Associate.

Recorded in Hanover - Dublin, Windmill Lane Recording Studios - Dublin, South Beach Studios - Miami, The Works - Dublin.

Catering by Restaurant Tosca: Norman Hewson. Aongus Hanley, Jeff "The Chef" O'Toole< Elenor Walsh, Dominic Lombard. The Clarence Hotel: Michael Martin.  Principle Management Dublin: Anne-Louise Kelly, Sheila Roche, Barbara Galavan, Trevor Bowen, Suzanne Doyle, Candida Bottaci, Susie Smith, Cecilia Coffey, Cillian Guidera, Susan Hunter, Sandra Long, Sally-Anne McKeown, Aislinn Meehan, Brigid Mooney, Suzanne O'Dea, Anne O'Leary, Eileen Osborne, Holly Peters, Joy Warner, Gerry Walters, George Augusta. Principle Management NY: Keryn Kaplan, Bess Burke, Kathy Araskog.

Produced by Flood. Additional production by Howie B, Steve Osborne.  Recorded by Mark "Spike" Stent, Howie B, Alan Moulder.  Mixed by Mark "Spike" Stent, Howie B, Steve Osborne. Engineering Assistant: Rob Kirwan.

Post production and supervision: Cheryl Engles / Partial Productions Inc.

Designed at ABA Dublin by Shaughn McGrath and Steve Averill.  Treatments by Shaughn McGrath. Cover Photography: Anton Corbijn. Interior photography by: Anton Corbijn, Stephane Sednaoui and Anja Grabert. Snapshots: Nellee Hooper. "Popmart Art" by Willie Williams and Mark Fisher.

Dedicated to Bill Graham 1951-1996.

Even the band itself was unhappy with the final result.  This stemmed from the fact that the Popmart tour was planned before the album was completed.  Due to the scheduling of these dates, when the spring of 1997 arrived, the band had no choice but to release an album they felt wasn't quite finished.  Last minute recording, remixing etc. also cut into rehersal time for the new tour, and resulted in many shakey performances at the start of the tour.

The album, however, has some of U2's finest song and lyric writing, which could be better appreciated as the continual touring on these songs strengthened their performances.  Single versions of many of the songs would be rerecorded as the tour progressed for release.  The overall audience and critical reaction probably was a major factor in returning to a radio friendly sound on All That You Can't Leave Behind, an album that Larry once mentioned should have been the one called Pop.

In Canada, the release of the album came early.  On February 28, 1997 a chain of record stores in Western Canada, A&B Sound, put the album out for sale five days early.  This lead to other chains also putting the album on sale early.  Polygram / Universal took action against the chain which released the album early witholding new releases for a time.  It was a pleasant surprise to find the album in my hands a few days early.