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16.03.2023 / 18:27
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Watch U2 cover ABBA and perform ‘Vertigo’ with orchestra for BBC Piano Room
U2 performed orchestral renditions of ‘Vertigo’ and ABBA‘s ‘S.O.S’ for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room – check out the videos below.The Irish rock band are gearing up for the release of new album ‘Songs Of Surrender’, out tomorrow (March 17), which will feature 40 of their past songs “reimagined and re-recorded”.So far, they have shared new versions of ‘Beautiful Day‘, ‘One’, ‘With Or Without You‘ and ‘Pride (In The Name Of Love)‘.For a special Radio 2 Piano Room performance, which aired today (March 16), frontman Bono and guitarist The Edge also performed ‘One’.Listen to the full episode here and watch the performances below.“There is something about ABBA. I can remember ABBA as like the national anthem for young mothers,” Bono told Radio 2’s Gary Davies.
