From Loudersound.
U2 have shared a stripped-back, piano-led version of their 2000 hit single Beautiful Day as another preview of their forthcoming Songs Of Surrender album. It follows on from the January release of a re-imagined version of their 1984 hit single Pride (In The Name Of Love), the first taste of a compilation, due on March 17, which features 40 re-worked U2 songs.
“Music allows you to time travel,” guitarist The Edge stated when the project was first unveiled, “and so we started to imagine what it would be like to bring these songs back with us to the present day and give them the benefit, or otherwise, of a 21st century re-imagining. What started as an experiment quickly became a personal obsession, as so many early U2 songs yielded to a new interpretation.
“Intimacy replaced post-punk urgency. New keys. New chords. New tempos and new lyrics arrived. It turns out that great song is kind of indestructible.”
Also on March 17, a new U2 documentary, Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, with David Letterman, will air on Disney+.
Directed by Morgan Neville, the film, which finds US television show host Letterman travelling to Ireland for the first time to meet up with the band in their hometown of Dublin.
In a press release, the documentary is described as “part concert movie, part travel adventure plus a whole lot of Bono and The Edge, with Dave’s humour throughout”.
Last month, the band announced that they will doing a gig residency in Las Vegas at the MGM Sphere in the autumn. Their sets will focus on songs from their 1991 album Achtung Baby. Dates are yet to be announced.
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- U2 - Boy - 1st - UK - vinyl LP - £40.00, $50.40, €48.40 (New Item) (arrived 26-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 28, 2025 at 3:52 am
U2 Boy (Classic 1980 UK first issue 11-track LP with picture labels, including I Will Follow, Twilight, Out Of Control and A Day Without Me, complete with illustrated lyric inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl looks barely played ILPS9646)
- U2 - U2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind Press Broadsheet - Mexican - memorabilia - Promo - £12.00, $15.12, €14.52 (Back In Stock) (arrived 04-Feb-2025 15:33)on February 28, 2025 at 3:52 am
U2 U2000 All That You Can't Leave Behind - 3re Edicion Limitada (Official Year 2000 Mexican only Press and Media only broadsheet style "newspaper". Distributed to record stores and media only this large four sided foldout includes biography, history, lyrics, chronology and much more for All That You Can't Leave Behind album and single releases in Mexico. Includes a map of Dublin showing famous U2 landmarks. An unusual and official piece of genuine memorabilia with all text in Spanish, dated30th October 2000. Brand new and used - it also makes a perfect piece for framing and display. Measures 12" x 8.5" and is folded midline)
- U2 - Zooropa - Dutch - vinyl LP - £125.00, $157.50, €151.25 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jan-2025 11:19)on February 28, 2025 at 3:52 am
U2 Zooropa (Rare 1993 Dutch issue 10-track vinyl LP including Lemon, Stay and Numb, picture sleeve complete with original digital graphic illustrated inner and lyric insert. The sleeve shows a little spine scuffing and minor edgewear; whilst the vinyl is near as new. A superb copy)
- U2 - The Best Of 1990-2000 - Remastered 180 Gram - Sealed - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £39.99, $50.39, €48.39 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jan-2025 17:07)on February 28, 2025 at 3:52 am
U2 The Best Of 1990-2000 (2018 UK/EU 16-track double album 2-LP, newly remastered for this release and pressed on 180-gram black vinyl. Their second compilation release and the follow up companion to The Best of 1980-1990. Gatefold picture sleeve, factory sealed)
- U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name - US - 12" vinyl - £25.00, $31.50, €30.25 (New Item) (arrived 29-Jan-2025 18:00)on February 28, 2025 at 3:52 am
U2 Where The Streets Have No Name (1987 US 4-track 12" vinyl EP also including Silver & Gold, Race Against Time & Sweetest Thing, spined matt and gloss picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl is near as new)
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