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"A Day Without Me" was the first single from U2's debut album Boy and was released in August 1980. Its lyrics are a clear contemplation of suicide and relate to the lead singer of Joy Division, Ian Curtis, who killed himself in May 1980. The B-side was an instrumental song called "Things To Make And Do". In music, a single is a short (usually ten minutes or less*) record, usually featuring one or two tracks as A-side, often accompanied by several B-sides, usually remixes or other songs. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). ...
Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
A gramophone record, (also phonograph record - often simply record) is an analog sound recording medium: a flat disc rotating at a constant angular velocity, with inscribed spiral grooves in which a stylus or needle rides. ...
Genres of Cuban music and other popular music A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
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Look up Second in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The second (symbol: s) is the SI base unit of time. ...
A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ...
Columbia Records is the oldest continually used brand name in recorded sound, dating back to 1888. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
Steve Lillywhite (born 1955 in England) is a well-known British music producer. ...
Top 40 is a radio format based on frequent repetition of songs from a constantly-updated list of the forty best-selling singles. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
11 OClock Tick Tock was U2s third single release. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
I Will Follow is a song by the rock band U2 and is the first track on their debut album Boy. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos and vocals, Adam Clayton on bass, and Larry Mullen, Jr. ...
Boy is the debut album from Irish rock band U2, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music). ...
Joy Division were a rock music band formed in 1977 in Manchester. ...
Ian Curtis performing Ian Kevin Curtis (July 15, 1956 – May 18, 1980) was a singer-songwriter born in Manchester, England. ...
In recorded music, the terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 7 inch vinyl records on which singles have been released since the 1950s. ...
After DJ Carter Alan of WBCN in Boston heard "A Day Without Me" in a record store, he became a U2 fan and included the song in his playlist. Alan's subsequent promotion of the band was instrumental in introducing a US audience to U2. For other meanings of DJ, see DJ (disambiguation). ...
Carter Alan is a disc jockey and radio announcer who has been working professionally in Boston since 1979. ...
WBCN 104. ...
Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: www. ...
In its most general form, a playlist is simply a list of songs. ...
"A Day Without Me" was played live during the first half of the 1980s. On the Boy Tour, it did not have a firmly defined setlist position, initially appearing in the main set before moving to the encore. It did not appear on the October Tour until November 1981, when it was paired with "I Threw A Brick Through A Window", a song from the October album. The two songs were linked by a drum segue leading from the end of "I Threw A Brick Through A Window" into "A Day Without Me", and this pairing lasted until April 1985. Since then, neither song has been played live. October was U2s second studio album, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ...
"Things To Make And Do" is the only instrumental ever played live by U2, and it regularly followed "The Electric Co." on the Boy Tour. It has only been played once since the end of the Boy Tour, at an early date of the October Tour on 31 August 1981.
Track listing
Version 1 - "A Day Without Me" (3:12)
- "Things to Make and Do" (2:14)
This was the regular 7" version released on Ireland, the UK and The Netherlands. A French edition of this single had "I Will Follow" as the B-Side. The Netherlands (Dutch: Nederland) is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Dutch: Koninkrijk der Nederlanden). ...
I Will Follow is a song by the rock band U2 and is the first track on their debut album Boy. ...
External links - A Day Without Me's performance history at U2-Vertigo-Tour.com--Lists all concerts at which A Day Without Me is known to have been performed.
- Things To Make And Do's performance history at U2-Vertigo-Tour.com--Lists all concerts at which Things To Make And Do is known to have been performed.
- Discography entry at U2 Wanderer--Comprehensive details on various editions, cover scans, lyrics, and more.
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