Steve Lillywhite on Producing U2

Here we are, blogging about Steve Lillywhite again. Last week it was about his radio show, and this week it’s about a lengthy interview on The Daily Swarm with a fair amount of U2 content.

Rather than try to put together some coherent summary, let me just rapid-fire a couple of my favorite quotes that Lillywhite gives:

“You work with U2 and there doesn’t seem like there’s any budget whatsoever. You work with other people and it’s different.”

“Eno and Lanois do a great job of getting it all prepped and then I come in. I think it has a lot to do with the band seeing me and they’re going, ‘Oh, Steve’s here. We’d better get to work.’”

“[Eno's] not really a fan of the band, so his job is to bring something that is not U2 to it. And my job is to bring it back to some form of U2.”

That’s a taster. Whole interview is good. Don’t read it just for the U2 stuff. He’s a smart guy.

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