"City of Blinding Lights" is the fifth track and third single from the 2005 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The song tells the story of U2's first arrival in New York City in 1980 - with Bono remarking it was an "amazing, magical time in our life, when we didn't know how powerful it was not to know."
| Year | Covered by | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Tufts Beelzebubs | Pandæmonium |
| 2010 | Dashboard Confessional | By the People: For the People |
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