U2 - New´s Year Day ... Yeah... All is quiet on New Years Day A world in white gets underway I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes on New Years Day On New Years Day I will be with you again I will be with you again Under a blood red sky A crowd has gathered in black and white Arms entwined, the chosen few The newspapers says, says Say its true its true... And we can break through Though torn in two We can be one I...I will begin again I...I will begin again Oh... Maybe the time is right Oh...maybe tonight... I will be with you again I will be with you again And so were told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you Be with you night and day Nothing changes On New Years Day On New Years Day New Years Day is a song by rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album War and it was released as the albums lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, New Years Day is driven by Adam Claytons distinctive bassline and The Edges piano and guitar playing. It was the bands first UK hit single, peaking at no. 10, also becoming the bands first international hit, reaching for example no. 9 in Norway, no. 11 on the Dutch Top 40, no. 17 in Sweden and charting on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States (just missing the Top 50) for the first time in their career. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine placed the single at #435 on their list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500. The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bass part stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out what the chords to the Visage song Fade to Grey were. In 1983, Bono said of the song, It would be stupid to start drawing up battle lines, but I think the fact that New Years Day made the Top Ten indicated a disillusionment among record buyers. I dont think New Years Day was a pop single, certainly not in the way that Mickie Most might define a pop single as something that lasts three minutes and three weeks in the chart. I dont think we could have written that kind of song. Live performances New Years Day is U2s fifth most frequently performed live song, with The Edge switching back and forth between piano and guitar during the song. It has been a standard on every U2 tour since its debut on 1 December 1982 at the first show of the War Tours Pre-Tour. During the 1980s, The Edge used a Fender Stratocaster to perform this song, along with a keyboard. During the 1990s and 2000s (decade), he has alternated between a Gibson Les Paul Custom and Les Paul Standard. The Les Paul the Edge used to write this song was sold for charity. Up until the Elevation Tour, Clayton normally used a chorus effect on his bass guitar for this song live. In the Top of the Pops performance, Bono is seen playing guitar. New Years Day has appeared on many of U2s concert video releases including 1983s U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky, Zoo TV: Live from Sydney, PopMart: Live from Mexico City, U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Vertigo 2005: Live from Chicago, Live from Paris, and U2 3D. The B-side of New Years Day, Treasure (Whatever Happened to Pete the Chop?), was never performed live. However, an early version known simply as Pete the Chop was played at some concerts in 1980. During the Vertigo Tour at Silesian Stadium in Poland a quite remarkable example of fan action occurred. During New Years Day, the lower sections of the crowd waved red coloured items while other sections waved white, creating the Polish flag and stunning the band. This was repeated during the U2 360° Tour at the same venue.
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