So where did that leave U2, with their hoary old blues rock, their waistcoats and mullets? When U2 arrived in Hansa Studios ten months later to start recording what would become Achtung Baby, one half of the band had a vague plan. “There was melancholy about it but there was also strength,” Bono said in the 2006 book U2 By U2. I'm still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as 'got to' rather than 'we get to carry each other.' It showed fans that under the panstick and layers of irony, their band were still the same old dependable U2.