// Popmart DVD release in April
Universal Music France has confirmed to U2 fansite U2achtung.com that 'U2 Popmart Live from Mexico City' will be released on DVD in April.
Like previous DVD releases by U2 this video will be released as a single DVD standard version and as a double DVD Deluxe Edtion. What extras the deluxe edition will contain is still unknown.
'Popmart Live from Mexico City' was recorded on December 3, 1997 at Foro Sol Autodromo in Mexico City, the concert was previously released on VHS in 1998.
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// No Grammys for U2 this year
Sunday evening the 49th annual Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles, U2 were nominated in two categories but the band did not win a single Grammy.
Tony Bennett and Stevie Wonder won 'Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals' (U2 nominated together with Mary J. Blige for 'One') and the Red Hot Chili Peppers won in the category 'Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal' (U2 nominated together with Green Day for 'The Saints Are Coming').
No members of U2 did attend the ceremony.
// Rick Rubin about producing U2
In september 2006 producer Rick Rubin spent some time with U2 in Abbey Road studios working on 'Window in the Skies' and 'The Saints are Coming', and he seems to be the prime candidate to produce the next U2 album.
In this month's issue of Q Magazine Rubin says the following about working with U2:
U2 are four individuals who each have very strong opinions: sometimes similar and sometimes very different. All of them bring something very specific to the table.
Larry has a very strong voice, he's probably the most grounded in the band. He's got a lot of opinions and, more often than not, he's right.
And if you hear the way the music is going before Adam plays and then hear it when he plays, it's very different. He brings a whole color to the sound that's one of the defining elements of U2.
And to define Edge by one guitar sound would really be doing him a disservice - he's constantly looking for something new.
When we worked in Abbey Road the spirits were very much up. They seemed to really like each other, really trust each other and really know each other.
I tried to get them to do something that, historically, they don't do so much: work on songs before recording them. It was a fun experience for me, to see if, tentatively, we could work together on a whole album. I think it'll be great.
And in a CNN article about Rubin it says that his dream job is to make a full album with U2.
So although nothing has been confirmed yet it seems more than likely that Rick Rubin will produce the new U2 album.
// More on the Window in The Skies video
A new version of the 'Window in the Skies' music video has surfaced: It's an edited version of the first video and it now includes the Beatles.
In a Washington Post article about the video director Gary Koepke explains why the Beatles have now been included:
While the Beatles didn't make the final cut, their representatives approved the project after the deadline, and because, well, they're the Beatles, the video has been redone to accommodate them.
Click here to watch the final video, Beatles included.
U2 fansite @U2 also had an interview with Gary Koepke, read it here.
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