Irish rock icons U2 re-record past songs. Songs Of Surrender features new renditions of 40 songs from their discography, a career-spanning repertoire that ranges from the 1980 non-album single 11 O’Clock Tick Tock to Get Out Of Your Own Way, a single from their last album Songs Of Experience (2017). Frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge handled most of the re-recordings during the pandemic lockdown, although bassist Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr play on some songs. The album also serves as a companion to Bono’s memoir released in November 2022, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Most of the tracks have been stripped down to their bare essentials, with minimal instrumentation, putting Bono’s voice front and centre.
-
Coldplay Announce First ‘Moon Music’ Album Single ‘feelslikeimfallinginlove’
Coldplay embarks on the next phase of their intergalactic journey with FeelsLikeImFallingInLove.” Produced by Swedish master Max Martin, the new cut dropped at the stroke of midnight and is the first lifted from the British band’s forthcoming tenth studio album, Moon Music. Coldplay premiered the song live this week at Budapest’s Puskás Aréna, and will get the chance to perform it for a sea of music fans (and millions more watching on their screens) when they headline Glastonbury Festival for a record fifth time. Moon Music is due out Oct. 4, 2024.
-
Today Music’s History
On March 23 1996, Celine Dion went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Because You Loved Me’, her second US No.1, a No.5 hit in UK. The Diane Warren song was taken from the film Up Close And Personal starring Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. And on the same day her album ‘Falling Into You’ went to No.1 on the UK album chart.
-
Today Music’s History
February 11th 2014, Queen made UK chart history by becoming the first act to sell six million copies of an individual album. Their first Greatest Hits collection, which includes the hits ‘We Will Rock You’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ had extended its lead after being Britain’s highest-selling album for several years. The Official Charts Company said one in three British families now owned a copy of the 1981 compilation.
