(Gibson) Infighting and "creative differences" nearly doomed U2 in the wake of the band's success in the late '80s. As reported by Rollingstone.com, the new U2 documentary, From The Sky Down, lays bare a tumultuous time during which the group was saved by the song, "One.""The movie has this pretty long [section] where you hear them write that song – and it's goose bumps," said the film's director Davis Guggenheim, in an interview with Rolling Stone following the documentary's premiere last week in Toronto. "The writing of that song really saved the band. They had come out of the height of Joshua Tree as the biggest band in the world. Rattle and Hum was a disaster from their point of view, a lot of bad reviews – they weren't happy with what they had become. They take that bridge section out of "Mysterious Ways" and they go back into the room at Hansa [Studios]. They write a song on the fly in a matter of minutes. "One" is written and the band is saved and we have all that on tape."
Bono apparently concurs with Guggenheim's assessment. "Making Achtung Baby is the reason we're here now," the singer says, in an interview that airs early in the documentary. As reported previously, From The Sky Down pieces together old footage of the band making Achtung Baby with new interviews with U2's members. more on this story
