3/27/2023 0 Comments U2 discography![]() The Washington Post called it "rock-and-roll as dystopian junk mail." Slateasserted that it was "extremely unsettling" that "consent and interest are no longer a requisite for owning an album, only corporate prerogative." Musicians like the Black Keys' Patrick Carney and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason argued that the free release "devalued" music, despite the fact that Apple paid a lump sum to the band and Universal Music Group for the five-week exclusivity window in which it distributed Songs of Innocence to its customers before it was physically released at retailers on October 13, 2014. Not everyone was thrilled by the disruption.Ĭritics of the move mobilized just as swiftly as the release they were decrying. ![]() ![]() it's really punk rock, it's really disruptive." And instantly, whether any of us liked it or not, the album was automatically added to the "purchased" sections of our music libraries and downloaded to our personal devices.Ĭook touted the release, which made the album available in 119 countries worldwide as "the largest album release of all time." U2 frontman Bono said the intention was to get new music to "as many people as possible, because that's what our band is all about." Guitarist The Edge later told TIME that the launch was "actually incredible subversive. Not only did the company unveil the iPhone 6, the eighth generation of their ubiquitous smartphone, but they also revealed what Cook described as "the next chapter in Apple's story," the Apple Watch.īut that was all dwarfed by the moment when Cook brought out U2 to announce their new album Songs of Innocence, which had been commissioned by the tech company and would be made available to each and every one of the over half billion iTunes customers at no cost. And the news announced by current CEO Tim Cook at the very site where the late Steve Jobs unveiled both the original Mac in 1984 and the first iMac in 1998 was pretty big. It’s a stirring end to ‘Stories Of Surrender’, closing the book on this fascinating insight into both Bono’s memoir and mind.The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, and everyone was gearing up to hear what new Apple products the tech giant would be launching out of Cupertino at what would be the last of their famed launch events to be held in the Flint Center for the Performing Arts at De Anza College. “It brings on a powerful, piano-driven snippet of ‘Beautiful Day’, which sees Bono impressively trading vocals with harpist/keyboardist Gemma Doherty before he finishes with an emotive take on the operatic 1894 Italian song ‘Torna a Surriento’ as a final tribute to his late father. “Bono then depicts the heartbreaking scene when his father tells him he has cancer, before the narrative switches to the U2 frontman reliving his dad’s final moments,” the review read. In a four-star review of the Irish rock star’s London date, NME described how Bono recalled important moments throughout his life, combining music and storytelling. He previously held a 14-city book tour across the UK, Europe and Ireland. The frontman is also set to embark on a residency at New York’s Beacon Theatre this spring in support of Surrender and described as evenings of “words, music and some mischief”. “Once we surrendered our reverence for the original version, each song started to open up to a new authentic voice of this time, of the people we are now, and particularly the singer that Bono has become,” he wrote. ![]() He added that the band had imagined bringing their old songs into the present day and giving them “a 21st-century reimagining”. (Many thanks to and for sharing!) /4jyBmJPaT9 Letters from the Edge announcing "Songs of Surrender" have started to appear. But how to reconnect with that essence when we have moved on and grown so much?” The essence of those songs is still in us. “Some we have outgrown, but we have not lost sight of what propelled us to write those songs in the first place. The Edge continued to explain that most of U2’s work “was written and recorded when we were a bunch of very young men” and that the songs had changed over the years to “mean something quite different to us now”. ![]()
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