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Songs of Experience is the fourteenth studio album by Irish rock band U2.Released on 1 December 2017, it was produced by Jacknife Lee and Ryan Tedder with Steve Lillywhite, Andy Barlow, Jolyon Thomas, Brent Kutzle, Paul Epworth, Danger Mouse, and Declan Gaffney.
Musically, the song was compared to the band's 2000 single "Beautiful Day". [5] Segueing between the end of "Get Out of Your Own Way" and the beginning of the album's next track, "American Soul", is a spoken word segment by rapper Kendrick Lamar ; playing what Bono called a "cracked preacher", Lamar gives an ironic take on the Beatitudes .
In 2017, U2 released Songs of Experience and began the 2017 and 2019 Joshua Tree Tours to commemorate the 30th anniversary of The Joshua Tree. U2 have sold 175 million records worldwide. [7] With 52 million certified units by the RIAA, U2 rank as the 22nd-highest-selling music artist in the US. [8]
U2 Songs of Experience: 2017 [5] "Love and Peace or Else" U2 How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 2004 [10] "Love Comes Tumbling" U2 "The Unforgettable Fire" single: 1985 [3] "Love Is All We Have Left" U2 Songs of Experience: 2017 [5] "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way" † U2 Songs of Experience: 2017 [5] "Love Is Blindness" U2 Achtung Baby ...
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The lyrics were written by lead vocalist Bono as a love song for his wife, Ali, after he had a nightmare that he had destroyed their relationship. A week prior to the song's single release, U2 re-recorded it while trying to find an arrangement they could perform live, returning the song to the more guitar-oriented style of its original demo.
In his honor, snippets of three McCartney-penned Beatles songs made their way into the set as passing nods, tagged onto the end of U2 tunes: “Love Me Do,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club ...
U2 struck a topical, tragic note in the band’s show Sunday at Sphere in Las Vegas, adding “Pride (In the Name of Love)” to the set and dedicating it to the hundreds of music fans killed at a ...