Released Date: October 20, 1980
Produced By: Steve Lillywhite
Engineer: Paul Thomas
Label: Island Records
Recorded At: Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin
U2’s debut album was the first of three produced by Steve Lillywhite. It was released on October 20, 1980. Warner Bros feared that the original album cover would cause controversy in North America, so the North American release feature a stretched and distorted picture of the band.
‘Boy’ climbed to No. 52 on the UK album charts and No. 63 on the US album charts. It was certified platinum by the RIAA in the US ‘Boy’ was voted Best Album, Best Debut Album, and Best Album Sleeve in the Hot Press Irish National Poll Results.
In 2003, ‘Boy’ was listed at number 417 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. The magazine wrote, “Too ingenuous for punk, too unironic for new wave, U2 arrived on Boy as big-time dreamers with the ambition to back it up.”
Boy was digitally remastered and released in 2008.
Songs included on ‘Boy’:
I Will Follow, Twilight, An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart, Out Of Control, Stories For Boys, The Ocean, A Day Without Me, Another Time, Another Place, The Electric Co., Shadows and Tall Trees
