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2024-11-13: New Release: Do They Know it’s Christmas (Ultimate Mix)

Band Aid will celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” with a new version of the song, being called the 2024 Ultimate Mix.


IMAGE: Do They Know it’s Christmas? (2024 Ultimate Mix Vinyl)

The song will feature a mix of recordings of the song, featuring vocals recorded for the original release in 1984, the 20th anniversary in 2004, and the 30th anniversary in 2014....

2024-11-12: Larry Mullen Jr’s new song with GAYLE Premieres

Larry Mullen is featured on a new song from the film Left Behind, released today on YouTube. The song is credited to Larry Mullen Jr, and GAYLE. The song is called “Between the Lines”. Larry Mullen features on drums and backing vocals on the song, and is credited with writing the song and producing it as well. The full credits are at the end of the article, and you can listen to the song...

2024-11-07: Breaking Waves: Radio Edits on Apple Music Tomorrow and Other Releases

For those who have been asking about the radio edits of the newly released demo songs, good news! It appears that these will be released as a commercial offering via Apple Music.

A two track single is being made available on November 8, 2024. It will contain “Country Mile” (Radio Edit) (04:39) and “Picture of You (X+W)” (03:05). Through Apple Music, the two songs in their album versions...

2024-11-03: Atomic Bomb at 20

In under three weeks How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb will be out in a variety of formats. A week later, How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb will be released in a standalone format. It has been some time since we announced the rumours about this set back in July. And while we’ve covered the release through news stories, our discography entries, and on social media, we felt with only a couple of...

2024-10-31: Record Collector Out Today

Today Record Collector magazine releases issue 564, the December 2024 issue in the UK. The issue features a number of pieces about U2, far beyond what we share here in this article. The interviews are current, and look at How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb but also look forward to the future of U2.

If you are interested in the issue, it features U2 on the cover and should be hitting...

2024-10-26: U2 iPod Special Edition at 20

Twenty years ago U2 made history, partnering with Apple to launch their own branded iPod. The iPod U2 Edition was a custom 20GB iPod featured customized packaging, exclusive design elements, and showed that U2 had a clear eye on the future of the music industry, and the rapid changes to music distribution underway with a move to digital formats.

U2’s partnership with Apple started a bit...

2024-10-25: Breaking Waves: U218 Orange Vinyl, Ecce Homo Launch, Anton’s Cover

When things are a little busier, we publish these “Breaking Waves” pieces to catch up on smaller pieces of news. There was also one earlier this week.

Today U2 released a ‘neon orange’ vinyl version of their 2006 album U218 Singles at Target stores in the USA. The record has the same track listing as the 2006 release, this is just a new pressing of the album. There have been some...

2024-10-24: “Happiness” to be Next U2 Release

The lyric video has now been made available:

Links to find “Happiness” on various music services can be found here.

We have set up our discography entry for “Happiness” here.

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Please note: This article is about a live event and we are actively updating it as new information is available.

The roll out of How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb continues today with the release of...

2024-10-23: Breaking Waves: Larry in Film, Gavin Friday, Atomic Bomb, U218 Singles

Larry Mullen is one of the producers of the film Left Behind that had its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on Friday.

He’s also contributing to two songs, and we have a bit more detail about the one with GAYLE which opens the film. Larry shares, “It is a rare occasion when a film as compelling as this finds its way to you. Making the music through the eyes of my dyslexic...

2024-10-19: Larry Mullen Soundtracks and Produces “Left Behind”

Larry Mullen Jr is listed as a producer and has contributed music to a new film, Left Behind, which debuted at the Woodstock Film Festival yesterday. The film is directed by Anna Toomey, and documents the struggle of kids with dyslexia in the New York City public school system, and a group of mothers who open New York City’s first public school for dyslexic students.

The producers of the...

2024-10-13: Two New Previews: “Happiness” and “Luckiest”

U2 are previewing two more tracks from How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb on Monday October 14. The two songs, “Happiness” and “Luckiest Man in the World” are being previewed through one minute clips on YouTube.


Luckiest Man in the World Preview (YouTube)


Happiness Preview (YouTube)

We’ve embedded both preview tracks above, and they will go live when the songs are available in your...

2024-10-10: Some Re-Assembly Required

Please note: This article looks at the upcoming songs on the “shadow album” How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb. This may include information that some would consider spoilers for the unreleased album, and we suggest you turn back if you wish to remain unspoiled about elements of lyrics and the development of songs for this release.

How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb is an album of demos...