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Over at The Beeb the other day for BBC Radio 2‘s Piano Room, U2 performed orchestral versions of Vertigo – and ABBA‘s SOS.
Says Bono: “There is something about ABBA. I can remember ABBA as like the national anthem for young mothers. Certainly at closing time at our local pub, often young women would sing ‘Thank You For The Music’, and I would sing it and I was very thankful for the music!
“But I was like, what is this phenomenon? This is before their musicals and all that. What is going on with ABBA? And then Benny came to one of our shows, when we murdered ‘Dancing Queen’. And they played with us on stage. But this is not ‘Dancing Queen’. This is the great ABBA. And this is a marketing gimmick from U2 called SOS.”
The new U2 album Songs Of Surrender drops tomorrow, loaded with 40 of their tunes which have been “reimagined and rerecorded”. So far, we’ve been treated to the new versions of With Or Without You and Pride (In The Name Of Love).
Love, Dr. Scott James
