[7] Released in September 1990, the album sold over a million copies worldwide, raised nearly $1m for the activist group ACT UP, and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in the music business.

In 2006 Red Hot + Blue was re-issued as a two-disc set including the original CD remastered, and a DVD of the video collection.

Neneh Cherry's reworked version of "I've Got You Under My Skin" was released as the lead single for the album in the UK and Europe and reached No.

", covered in a techno style by Thompson Twins, received regular airplay on San Francisco's Live 105 (KITS).

2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart,[14] and presaged the electronic sound the band would explore on Achtung Baby the following year.