U2 just released a piano led version of their 2000 hit single “Beautiful Day” off of their forthcoming Songs of Surrender album. The album is a companion album to Bono’s memoir “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.” U2 has reimagined 40 tracks from their catalog to put together the new album that is set for release on March 17th.
Songs of Surrender was produced by The Edge and will revisit some of the band’s top hits including, “With Or Without You,” “One,” “Beautiful Day,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Invisible.”
When the project was initially announced, The Edge stated, “Music allows you to time travel, 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.”
The Edge concluded his statements by adding, “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.”
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