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Written by: Bono, the Edge, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton
Jr.
Produced by: Steve Lillywhite
Released: April '83 on Island
Charts: 12 weeks
Top spot: No. 53
"New Year's Day" lifted U2 out of the rock underground for good. As he often did, Bono made up his lyrics on the spot. "We improvise, and the things that came out, I let them come out," he said. "I must have been thinking about Lech Walesa being interned.Then, when we'd recorded the song, they announced that martial law would be lifted in Poland on New Year's Day. Incredible."
Appears on: War (Island)