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"Yahweh" was performed live by U2 during the Vertigo Tour. [3] In May 2005, the band performed an acoustic version of the song live in Chicago at the United Center.This live version of "Yahweh" was later included as the twenty-second track on the band's concert film Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago. [3]
Following the release of their single "Another Day" in 1980, U2 signed a recording contract with Island Records, [2] and released their first album, Boy, later that year. The band has since released 15 full-length studio albums, the most recent being Songs of Surrender in 2023.
The Edge has won numerous awards with U2, including 22 Grammy Awards [67] and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Song (for "The Hands That Built America" in 2003 and "Ordinary Love" in 2014). [68] In 2005, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of U2, in the group's first year of eligibility.
For Record Store Day in April 2023, U2 released a limited-edition, four-track EP on 180-gram white vinyl record that contained two versions of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Two Hearts Beat as One": their original studio versions from War (1983) on side A, and their re-recorded versions from Songs of Surrender on side B. [39] Among singles ...
"40", also known as "40 (How Long)", is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the tenth and final track on their 1983 album, War.The song is noted for its live performances; guitarist the Edge and bassist Adam Clayton trade instruments during performances of it, and as it was commonly played to end their concerts, the band would leave the stage one-by-one as the audience continued to sing the ...
Live performances of the song appear on the DVDs Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago and U2 360° at the Rose Bowl, the bonus disc of U218 Singles, and on the 2005 U2.com subscriber's release U2.COMmunication. [15] [52] [53] [54] The U2.COMmunication version is an audio rip of the performance from Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago. [54]
The full band electric version was revived for the sixth leg of the Vertigo Tour in 2006. The song was performed on the U2 360° Tour, again in an acoustic form by Bono and The Edge. [16] The song was played five times on the 2015 Innocence + Experience Tour. [17] These performances were by the full band and featured The Edge on the piano.
Bono said that it was "a bass line in search of a song", while the Edge stated that "the key to the song was finding ways to mess around with chords on top without having to change the bass". [6] As U2 continued to struggle with the song, the tense atmosphere of the recording sessions at Hansa Studios in Berlin took its toll.