"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 single at number 427 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
| Year | Covered by | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Gigi D'Agostino | New Year's Day |
| 1999 | Frontline Assembly with Tiffany | We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 |
| Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Pride: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays U2 | |
| 2000 | Savitri String Quartet | Strung out on U2 |
| 2004 | Effcee | Remixed and Recovered |
| 2005 | To/Die/For | IV |
| Aslan | Even Better Than the Real Thing Vol. 3 | |
| 2007 | Rockabye Baby! | Lullaby Renditions of U2 |
| 2009 | Steve Morse with Billy Sherwood | An All-Star Salute to Christmas |
| 2010 | Inverse Phase | Retrocovered |
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Famous quotes containing the words year and/or day:
“They tapped at my eyelids and touched my lips with an invitation to grief.
But it was no reason I had to go because they had to go.
Now up, my knee, to keep on top of another year of snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
““If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one’s self a part of it. If virtue won’t answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington’s day as it is now, and always will be.””
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)