U2 drop previously unreleased track 'Happiness'

Music
25 Oct 24

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U2 have shared the previously unreleased track 'Happiness', the latest from single from their upcoming How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb project.

In the run-up to the 20th anniversary of How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, U2 announced a special new 'shadow album'. Set to arrive on November 29, the record featrues previously unreleased songs from the original album recording sessions.

“It was amazing to go back and hear some of these tracks that we played as a band; we’re fond of those tracks, they’re your friends,” bassist Adam Clayton said in a recent interview with Apple Music. “You feel that not much more needs to happen. It’s all there.”

How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb is set to get its own standalone release on November 29. It will be available as a limited edition black and red marble vinyl LP for Record Store Day's Black Friday event, and will also be released as a 10-track digital release.

To further mark the upcoming anniversary How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is also being remastered for the first time – a process which saw the band go back to the vault to revisit those early ‘00s recording sessions. Those years have been described as 'a period of intense creativity for U2 in the studio' as well as a 'a time of deep personal and artistic reflection following the passing of Bono’s father Bob in 2001.'

This special 20th anniversary edition, will include the bonus track ‘Fast Cars’. A remastered 20th Anniversary Edition of the album will be released in multiple formats on November 22, including a limited edition Super Deluxe Collectors Boxset.

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) – featuring both the remastered original album and How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb – will also be available as a dual digital release on November 22.

Following its release on November 22, 2004, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2's 11th studio album – went No.1 in 34 countries around the work, including Ireland, the UK and the US. It went on to win a total of eight Grammy Awards, with the single 'Vertigo' winning three.

The album was recorded at the band’s studio in Hanover Quay, Dublin and the South of France, and produced by Steve Lillywhite, with additional production from Chris Thomas, Flood, Jacknife Lee, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Nellee Hooper and Carl Glanville.