It can also be found on the Christmas Of Hope (with proceeds being donated to the City Of Hope), The One And Only 80's Album, Chart Runners Volume One, The Hit Squad's Hits of 1983, and The Tube compilations. Ferry Corsten had also done an unreleased remix of New Year's Day in the spring of 2000. Route 401 also released a single with 5 dance remixes of New Year's Day. The Savitri String Quartet on Strung Out On U2 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Pride: The RPO Plays U2 Driven by The Edges melancholy piano melody. Albums : War - U2 /1983/New Years DayAll is quiet on New Years Day.A world in white gets underway.I want to be with you, be with you night and day.Nothing. Prima with two remixes on their New Year's Day single Released as the albums first single, New Years Day stands as one of U2s most compelling moments on record. Gigi D'Agostino who released a 12" with 4 cover versions of New Year's Day įront Line Assembly and Tiffany on We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 In addition to the song being sampled, several artists have covered it:ĢFabiola featuring Medusa on their New Year's Day single Hyper Logic also used a sample in Only Me. The group Dynamic Base used the sample on their Africa single and Bacon Popper did the same on the Free single. Manchester rappers Kiss AMC sampled the intro for their song A Bit Of U2. With It Guys used the piano line from New Year's Day as a sample in the song Let The Music Take Control. New Year's Day remains a popular song for other artists to sample or cover. 9 in the Best Single category in the Sounds poll and became U2's first top 10 single in the UK. 6 in the Best Single category in the New Musical Express poll and No. It is the third track on their 1983 album War and. Secondly, they were reeling from the extremely severe cold of Sweden.New Year's Day was voted No. 6.9K views, 150 likes, 49 loves, 12 comments, 227 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from MyRetro-Music: 'New Year's Day' is a song by Irish rock band U2. Firstly, they didn’t know how to ride horses. Two things accounted for the band not riding the horses. It is for this reason you never see the faces of the horse riders. So who were they then? They were four girls from Sweden who were disguised as members of the band. The scene of four people riding horse in the song’s official music video was not the members of U2. Bono was having such an emotional time writing the lyrics of this song that it almost didn’t make the “War” album.ĭid the members of U2 actually ride horses in the music video of “New.This track has made Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.It peaked at number 53 on the US-based Billboard Hot 100. For instance, it was their first single to chart in the United States. This song was not only U2’s first UK hit – where it reached number 10 on their charts – but also their first international hit as well.Bono wrote this song shortly after getting married to his wife, Ali, which led some to assert that it was initially penned as a tribute to that relationship.The producer of this track is Steve Lillywhite.As such, it is regularly played at bars during New Year’s celebrations. Despite the fact this song is about Polish Solidarity, many people rather associate it with the holiday it is named after.New Year’s Day” charted in the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, United States, Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Ireland.The members of U2 suffered in freezing temperatures while filming the music video.The music video for this track was filmed in Sweden in 1982 and was one of the first videos featured prominently on MTV.“New Year’s Day” was released as the lead single of off U2’s album War.
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