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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 The Joshua Tree (2007 UK Deluxe Limited 20th Anniversary Edition Triple Disc set, featuring the classic 11-track album, digitally remastered from the original analogue master tapes, a Bonus 14-track Disc featuring a collection of b-sides & demos from the original album sessions, along with a DVD containing footage from the 'Joshua Tree' Tour live from the Hippodrome in Paris and other rare video footage, complete with a fifty six page hardback book and five photographic prints in an 8" x 6" x 1½" picture box. The box shows very little wear and the contents are near 'as new') #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
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U2 Songs Of Surrender (2023 UK/EU Amazon exclusive limited edition 16-track double LP pressed on 180-gram Orange Translucent Vinyl, featuring sixteen new acoustic & re-imagined recordings from their legendary catalogue, produced & compiled by The Edge. The black & white picture sleeve comes with 4-page insert & orange hype sticker, factory sealed)
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