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U2
‘SONGS OF SURRENDER’
40 SONGS
re-recorded and re-imagined
out now
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Songs Of Surrender cover
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U2SOS40
40 songs – 40 creators – 40 stories
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Yana Yatsuk – Pride
Alana O’Herlihy – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Tanima Mehrotra – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Ben Elias – 40
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Praise for Songs Of Surrender:
“A stunning showcase of milestone moments and more.”-
– CLASH
“More than just an acoustic greatest hits, the band’s latest [album] is uniquely revealing and emotionally resonant.”
– ROLLING STONE
“What is left when you strip everything away? A voice raised in hope, togetherness, a song. Perfect!”
– IRISH EXAMINER
“A reminder that …U2 have exceptional songs in their back catalogue”
– IRISH TIMES
“U2 reworks past in thrilling ‘Songs of Surrender’”
– ASSOCIATED PRESS
“Four decades on, U2 is still redefining the parameters of their music.”
– ULTIMATE CLASSIC ROCK
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Photo credit : Sam Jones
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17 March 2023 – To mark the release of Songs Of Surrender, Island Records, and Interscope today share details of U2SOS40, a unique collaborative project which has seen 40 artists and creators from around the world invited to create a 60 second piece of content, each soundtracked by re-recorded U2 song.
The result is 40 new visual interpretations of U2’s music – 40 stories by 40 creatives – to mark the release of Songs Of Surrender, a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band’s catalogue, re-recorded and re-imagined for 2023.
Artists include Indian-born Tanima Mehrotra who documented her local skate crew in Mexico City who “embody the kind of freedom that comes with youthful curiosity”; Ben Elias, a director and cinematographer from New Zealand whose film is “a walking tour of Aotearoa starring my grandparents”; Alana O’Herlihy, a multidisciplinary photographer, director and mixed media artist who “…decided to take the very serious subject matter that Sunday Bloody Sunday is about, and juxtapose it with those coming of age moments for women, and that loss of innocence.”; and Yanya Yatsuk, a U.S.-based Ukrainian-born photographer who wanted to “make something that told a story about love”.
Each piece will be shared by the respective creator on their social media channels over the coming weeks, linked by the hashtag #U2SOS40.
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Photo credit : Helena Christensen
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Watch all the films releases to date here.
The list of 40 artists includes:
Yana Yatsuk – Pride
Donte Colley – With or Without You
Actual Objects – Stories For Boys
Elle Johnson – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Maddy Rotman – 11 O’Clock Tick Tock
Blu DeTiger – Desire
Alana O’Herlihy – Sunday Bloody Sunday
Goldmond Fong – Stay (Faraway, So Close)
Mitch DeQuilettes – Beautiful Day
Terry O’Connor / Benny Drama – Two Hearts Beat As One
Ella Mai Weisskamp – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Dylan McGale – Red Hill Mining Town
Tanima Mehrotra – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Sam Dameshek – City of Blinding Lights
Phil Berge – Electrical Storm
fromm.studio – Bad
Byron Spencer – Ordinary Love
Kelly Butts-Spirito – If God Will Send His Angels
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Photo credit : Olaf Heine
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The complete Songs Of Surrender
tracklisting is:
Side 1 – The Edge
One
Where The Streets Have No Name
Stories For Boys
11 O’Clock Tick Tock
Out Of Control
Beautiful Day
Bad
Every Breaking Wave
Walk On (Ukraine)
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Side 2 – Larry
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Get Out Of Your Own Way
Stuck In A Moment You Can’t Get Out Of
Red Hill Mining Town
Ordinary Love
Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own
Invisible
Dirty Day
The Miracle Of Joey Ramone
City Of Blinding Lights
Side 3 – Adam
Vertigo
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Electrical Storm
The Fly
If God Will Send His Angels
Desire
Until The End Of The World
Song For Someone
All I Want Is You
Peace On Earth
Side 4 – Bono
With Or Without You
Stay
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Lights Of Home
Cedarwood Road
I Will Follow
Two Hearts Beat As One
Miracle Drug
The Little Things That Give You Away
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Songs Of Surrender is available in the following formats: Full 40 track Digital; Limited Edition 40 track 2 x CD Hardback Deluxe; and Limited Edition 40 track 4 x Vinyl.
‘Bono & The Edge: A Sort Of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman’ – press release, trailer links and stills here.
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Photo credit : Kurt Iswarienko
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About Songs Of Surrender:
Songs Of Surrender – a collection of 40 seminal U2 songs from across the band’s catalogue, re-recorded and re-imagined for 2023 in sessions spanning the last two years, is released today.
Songs Of Surrender is curated and produced by The Edge and sees the band revisit some of the most celebrated songs of their 40+ year career, including ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’, ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and ‘Invisible’, for a musical reimagining resulting in a completely new recording of each track, to include the arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics.
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