New Digital Re-Release: Madres 20 Años ¡Ni Un Paso Atrás!

Original Story by Aaron J Sams (2025-10-13)

A new reissue on Friday, October 10, saw the Madres de Plaza de Mayo bring the album Madres 20 Años ¡Ni Un Paso Atrás! onto digital services and platforms. The album is available now on streaming services (Deezer, Spotify, Tidal) and also digital storefronts such as Qobuz, and is available at high resolution (24-bit, 44.1kHz) as well as lower quality options. Royalties generated by streaming will entirely go to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo.

The album features three tracks by Bono, a reading of the Yeats poem “The Mother of God”, and an English acapella version of “Mothers of the Disappeared.” The third track is labeled “Mother of God” but is a Spanish version of “Mothers of the Disappeared”, read by Bono. Each track is a minute in length or less.

The group of woman known as the Madres de Plaza de Mayo had seen their children go missing at the hands of dictators in Argentina and Chile, and Bono was inspired by stories from the group to write the song “Mothers of the Disappeared”. Bono shared, “People would just disappear. If you were part of the opposition, you might find an SUV with the windows blacked out parked outside your house…If that didn’t stop you, occasionally they would come in and take you and murder you; there would be no trial.”

Bono’s songs were recorded at a hotel in South America, after Bono had met with the Madres de Plaza de Mayo on February 4, 1998. Many of the other tracks on the album was recorded at a concert held on October 11 and 12, 1997 as a tribute to the Madres at Ferrocarril Stadium. U2 would bring the Madres on stage with them at River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina the night after Bono recording these tracks, as they performed “Mothers of the Disappeared” to close the show. The women took the stage with hand-held signs with pictures of their loved ones, and Bono invited the women to come forward one by one while the band played to introduce those they had lost.

The album was first released in 1998, and later reissued in 1999. This new release returns to the original cover of the album, and is the first wide release of the digital tracks. Our discography entry for the original album can be found here. We will update it with this new release shortly. Many thanks to U2 Argentina for the heads up on this release, which is available worldwide.

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