Once again – congratulations on the beginning of the New Year! I do hope you’ve had a terrific celebration and are still being in the festive atmosphere of holidays. So so, let’s proceed into the new year with a fresh post about some curious song, shall we?
Not to step too far from the topic of holidays, today’s post will be dedicated to a song titled “New Year’s Day” by the rock band U2. For those who never heard it, it will seem that the contents of the song are all about this joyous time of the year with all the usual NY symbols. But it’s much more than that. Though originally composed by Bono as a gift for his wife, the song was later reshaped and received a completely new form and sense, too. It acquired an inspirational touch of the Polish Solidarity movement having become not just a one-week-pop-hit but a long-living single. It was the obligatory part of band’s tour program and one of its most performed live singles. The video has quite an interesting story too. It was shot in Sweden in the coldest peak of its winter. The members of the band were so frozen that by the end of the clip could hardly articulate the lyrics and had to hire double to take part in some shots instead of them.
It all was not in vain and as a result the single got its fine reviews by the Rolling Stone magazine, hit the Billboard 100 and got in the list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
