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"Staring at the Sun" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their 1997 album, Pop , and was released by Island Records as the album's second single on 14 April 1997. The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart , number one in Canada and Iceland and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100 .
New Year's Day" is the third song and lead single from U2's 1983 album, War. The song is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and The Edge's keyboard. It was the band's first hit single, breaking the top ten in the UK and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in their career. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed the ...
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Pop was the only U2 album that U2 did not play a single song from for the full duration of their tour. "Staring at the Sun" was performed live during U2's 2018 Experience + Innocence Tour, which Andy Greene of Rolling Stone described as "a rare onstage acknowledgment that Pop is a thing that happened."
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U2's Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. play bass and drums respectively for the track (they did not appear on the original recording). Sinatra changes the pronouns in the lyrics from a first-person perspective to a third-person, presumably to refer to her father. Canadian singer Matt Dusk recorded the song for his album, Two Shots.
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This performance of "Staring at the Sun", played by Bono and the Edge as part of an acoustic set at the PopMart concerts, was a departure from the version on the Pop album. It was a more subtle, vocal-orientated version, with only the two guitars and some harmonies during the choruses.