"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:
“Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say,
and yet she waits for me, year after year,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.”
—Patrick McGoohan (b. 1928)