page_title: PopMart Tour
section_title: Encores
hierarchical_section_title: PopMart Tour / Concert overview / Encores
caption_attribution_description: Español: En la foto, imagen del concierto en santiago de Chile de 1998 de U2, donde el grupo protesto contra Augusto Pinochet, quien en los días posteriores asumiría como senador
context_page_description: The PopMart Tour was a worldwide concert tour by rock band U2. Launched in support of the group's 1997 album Pop, the tour's concerts were performed in stadiums and parks in 1997 and 1998. Much like the band's previous Zoo TV Tour, PopMart was elaborately staged. Its lavish stage design had a 165-foot-wide LED screen, a 100-foot-high golden arch, and a large mirror-ball lemon. As with the Zoo TV tour, the band delivered an image and performance that were ironic and self-mocking, deviating from its earnest performances of the 1980s; the band performed in costumes that, along with the PopMart stage design, poked fun at the themes of consumerism and pop culture.
  The PopMart Tour's five legs and 93 shows attracted about 3.9 million fans. The tour took U2 to South America, South Africa and Israel for the first time. The tour was booked while the band were still completing Pop, which was planned for release in the 1996 holiday season. However, the recording sessions went long, delaying the release until March 1997 and cutting into rehearsal time for the tour.
context_section_description: At the end of the main set, before the first encore, the giant lemon moved to the middle of the stage. There a sheet fell off exposing a huge disco ball that lit up the stadium in spinning lights while the Perfecto Mix of "Lemon" played over the PA. The band then would walk out of the giant lemon onto the B stage to perform "Discothèque".
  The rest of the first encore typically consisted of "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" and "With or Without You". After another brief break, the band would return to perform "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", their single from 1995 for the Batman Forever soundtrack, followed by "Mysterious Ways". "One" always followed, ending a handful of shows, but otherwise it was followed by one more song. "Unchained Melody", "Wake Up Dead Man", and "MLK" were variously performed to close the show. On a handful of occasions, the show ended with another song, such as "Rain", "Hallelujah", "Mothers of the Disappeared" (during which the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo were brought on stage in Buenos Aires), "40", or "Can't Help Falling in Love". "She's a Mystery to Me" and "Staring at the Sun" each ended a single show, as well.
caption: Mothers of disappeared detainees join U2 on stage during a performance in Santiago, Chile in 1998.
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