“City of Blinding Lights” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their eleventh studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It was released as the album’s fourth single on 6 June 2005. The song reached number one in Spain, and peaked in the top ten in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. It won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song at the 2006 ceremony.
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“City of Blinding Lights” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their eleventh studio album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. It was released as the album’s fourth single on 6 June 2005. The song reached number one in Spain, and peaked in the top ten in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. It won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Song at the 2006 ceremony. The track has been used in episodes of The Simpsons and Entourage, and in the film The Devil Wears Prada. Former U. S. President Barack Obama used the song at his campaign events during the 2008 and 2012 U.S. presidential elections, and listed it as one of his favourite songs. The underlying theme reflects lost innocence and was inspired by an image Bono saw of himself from the early 1980s. The sound has been compared to the tone of U2’s 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire and their 1987 single, “Where the Streets Have No Name.” The song made its live debut on the group’s 2005–2006 Vertigo Tour, when it was commonly played as the opening song. It has been performed at nearly every show from a U2 concert tour since. The music video for the song was shot at the General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and features Bono and his wife Ali in the lead up to the song. The video was released in June 2006 and has been viewed more than one million times on YouTube.
The band has released two remixes of the song, one of which is a live version, the other of which has been released as a compilation of all the band’s greatest hits. U2 have never released a single with the song as the lead-up to the release of their second album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind, which came out in 2000. The group has never released an album with the track as the first single, although they did release a remix of the track for their 2004 album How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which was released the same month as the second album. The single was released on June 6, 2005, and was the first U2 single to reach the top 10 in several countries, including Canada, the UK, Ireland and the United States. It also reached the top of the charts in the UK and the U.K. in June 2007. The album version of thesong runs for 5: 47 for five: 47 seconds. It begins with a low, sustained note played on an electric guitar with heavy delay and distortion for ten seconds. After a further ten seconds is joined by a repetition of guitar drones played by the Edge. Forty-five seconds into the song the producer Jacknife Lee’s synthesizers perform stife stife, which is performed by the drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and Bono. The chorus is played in common time at a tempo of 139 beats per minute in two keys: A♭ major in the chorus and E ♭ major.
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