After many years of success in the recording industry, producing multi-platinum albums such as U2’s The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby, Peter Gabriel’s So and Us, Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, and Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball, 11-time Grammy winner Daniel Lanois received an unusual call: Rockstar Games, well-known for their Grand Theft Auto franchise, asked him to compose the soundtrack for the next installment of their Western-themed Red Dead Redemption series.