U2 Discuss New UNFORGETTABLE FIRE Re-Issue

      MUSIC NEWS - On BBC Radio 1 recently, Bono and The Edge revealed that U2 has been digging out rare and unreleased tracks for an upcoming deluxe re-issue of 1984's The Unforgettable Fire. Reports are the band discussed in detail a track called "Disappearing Act," and later played a clip of it on the air.   The Edge said that he recently "listened to some tracks that we're gonna release with the new Unforgettable Fire reissue, some new songs that we discovered that we'd recorded, back in that era - the '80s - that we're gonna put out. And they sound amazing."

Bono described the "Disappearing Act" as  "incredibly special" and The Edge added that "it was originally called 'White City,' and it was a track we started with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois back in 1983 when we were recording The Unforgettable Fire. And we discovered it about six months ago, and we dug it out and did some work on it in France a few weeks ago, and it's now finished."

The two also mentioned the financially-troubled Spider-Man Broadway musical that they were hired to write the music for.  The production on the show is currently stopped, as the producers have run out of cash!  The Edge told listeners that it's not a traditional Broadway musical but "It touches on opera, it touches on rock & roll. There are some real character-driven songs as well, very unusual song types for us." 

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UPDATE 9/25/09 -  It's been revealed that a bonus disc with the UNFORGETTABLE FIRE re-release will feature two unreleased songs from the group’s 1984 Slane Castle sessions: “Yoshino Blossom” and “Disappearing Act,” which the band recently finished. The reissue’s DVD Collection will feature four music videos from the period, and the documentary The Making of the Unforgettable Fire and footage from the band’s 1985 Live Aid and A Conspiracy Of Hope Concert performances.

The Unforgettable Fire bonus disc:
Disappearing Act
A Sort of Homecoming (live)
Bad (live)
Love Comes Tumbling
The Three Sunrises
Yoshino Blossom
Wire (Kervorkian Remix)
Boomerang I
Pride (In The Name of Love)
A Sort of Homecoming
11 O’Clock Tick Tock
Wire (Celtic Dub Mix)”
Basa Trap
Boomerang II
4th of July
Sixty Seconds in Kingdom Come