"Between the Lines" - Larry Mullen and GAYLE
Single
Track Listing:
- "Between the Lines" (Studio Version) - Larry Mullen Jr. and GAYLE (02:22)
Background Information
The 2024 film Left Behind, a documentary about dyslexia and a group of mothers advocating for their kids in New York City, included Larry Mullen as a producer. Not only did he co-produce the film, he also contributed two songs to the film. “One of Us” and “Between the Lines” both made their debut in the film.
The film debuted on October 18, at the Woodstock film festival. Both songs were later sent out for consideration for Awards season, and on December 10, 2024, both songs were commercially released. In each case the single released is a single track, and is available at high resolution, as well as in normal formats. The high resolution offering is at 96kHz / 24-bit.
Larry Mullen’s oldest son has dyslexia, which drew him to the film. “I showed it to my son and he was—moved. I felt that I needed to do something, just to express his rage at the way that he was treated.” The songs for the film were recorded as Mullen was recovering from surgeries which had prevented him from performing with U2 at Sphere.
“Between the Lines” is written and sung by GAYLE. GAYLE is an American singer and songwriter, who found herself in the spotlight with the release of “abcdefu” in 2021 which peaked at number 3 in the Billboard Hot 100.
GAYLE is dyslexic herself, and was happy to work with Larry Mullen on the track for the film, telling Billboard, “It was a collide of cultures, two different eras coming together. And the collision is kind of a beautiful one despite musical differences.”
Larry shared with Deadline, “It’s really worthwhile mentioning Gayle, who came in very late to this. She’s a young woman with dyslexia, a brilliant singer, and she really turned the theme song of this around. And it’s just amazing that she did it. And she’s a really articulate, clever, and it just makes a big difference when somebody like her, who you know, she’s a big star, and she’s got lots more to go, when she turns around and just drops everything and says, I’ll come on board When she says, I’ll do this, and I’ll work on your film, and I’ll collaborate with an old guy. She did that, and that takes a lot of humility, and I’m very grateful to her, and we all very grateful to Gayle for doing that.”
GAYLE also shares, “It was an honor to be asked to make a song for such an important issue and with such an iconic musician. This is a topic that affects my life and I’m so inspired to be a part of this project.” Larry Mullen adds, “It was just completely fortuitous and luck that myself and GAYLE kind of fell into each other.” He also adds, “I was honoured to have the opportunity to collaborate with GAYLE whose lyrics for ‘Between The Lines’ are some of the best I’ve heard in a long time.”
“Between the Lines” plays over the credits at the end of Left Behind. It has been submitted for consideration for Awards season. The released version of the song on this single is the same as the version used in the film.
Larry Mullen previously worked apart from U2 soundtracking The Man on the Train, which saw the release of a remix of the main theme that Mullen did with Simon Climie. His work with Adam Clayton on 1996’s Mission Impossible was a more well-known project.
Liner Notes
Associated Performer, Studio Personnel, Producer, Recording Engineer, Mastering Engineer, Composer, Mixer: David Baron
Composer Lyricist, Studio Personnel, Producer, Vocal Engineer: Reed Berin
Composer, Drums, Producer, Associated Performer, Background Vocalist: Larry Mullen Jr.
Composer Lyricist, Vocals, Producer, Associated Performer: GAYLE
Clapping, Associated Performer, Producer, Co- Producer: David Beal
Producer, Executive Producer: Chris Farrell
Clapping, Asst. Recording Engineer, Studio Personnel, Associated Performer: Gillian Pelkonen
Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Associated Performer, Electric Guitar: Gerry Leonard
Associated Performer: Gail Ann Dorsey
Associated Performer, Clapping: Don McAulay
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