U2’s Manager Remembers Stage Designer Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher was one of the most important and influential stage architects music has ever seen. Since his death on Tuesday (June 25), his former clients and friends have been remember what an impact this guy made on rock’n’roll.
Fisher had been involved in every single U2 tour since 1991. Manager Paul McGuinness had this to say in Billboard:
“I had known Mark in a previous life. Before I managed U2, back in 1973 I worked on a movie called “Zardoz,” made in Ireland by the director John Boorman. It’s kind of a cult movie now, sci-fi, Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling were in it. In those days, Mark Fisher was a student at the Architectural Association in London. He and a couple of other kind of hippies from the Architectural Association worked on that movie building inflatable buildings — it was set in the future. I always thought [the Rolling Stones tours] was where they developed the technology, and John Boorman must have heard about it and brought them in. That was the first time I met him, and then some years later he cropped up in rock ‘n roll. We started working with him in 1991 and he was involved in every production since then.”
