ITunes offers free U2 new album, ‘Songs of Innocence’ – Diario de Sevilla

The Irish band U2 surprised Tuesday to attendees of Apple in Cupertino (California, USA) with the announcement that their new album, Songs of Innocence , can be downloaded for free iTunes. The Irish musician Bono, lead singer of U2, announced the new record after playing the song The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) on stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino, where Apple introduced its first smart watch and the last two iPhones. U2′s first album in five years includes 11 songs and is available in 119 countries in iTunes, iTunes Radio and Beats Music, a company that Apple acquired the latter in August.

“The music is very involved in the DNA of Apple, is at the center of all our products,” said CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, during his joint appearance with Bono. “I think we have more than 500 million subscribers in iTunes, could you share the album with them?” Said Bono responsible for Apple, who replied that there was no problem if you could download “free”. Five seconds later the debut disc was finalized. “It’s the biggest launch of a disk at all times,” said the CEO of Apple. The album will be available exclusively through Apple platforms until 13 October.

“The album has roots of the first and strongest influences of the band, including the Ramones, Boby Dylan and The Clash,” says a text accompanying Songs of Innocence in iTunes, and also explains that pays homage to the formative years of U2 in Dublin and its transformative journey to California. U2 frontman said in an interview with the journal Rolling Stone on Monday and that the publication reported Tuesday on its website that the band wanted to make a “very personal” album. “The album is about first trips, first geographical travel, spiritual, sexual. And that’s hard” to address, Bono, who said that despite the challenges that space decided to explore said.
The band worked on the album for two years with producer Danger Mouse. “We wanted to have the discipline of the Beatles or the Stones in the sixties, when the songs were real. There is no way to hide them, the thoughts are clear, the melodies are clear,” Bono said in his interview with Rolling Stone .

The album includes a very personal song about Bono’s mother, Iris Hewson, who died when he was 14. “40 years ago my mother fell at the funeral of his father and never talk to her again,” Bono told Rolling Stone . “Anger always follows the mourning and I felt a lot of it and still feel it, but channeled through the music and still do. I have very few memories of my mother and reflecting some of them in a song called Iris “explained the artist.

Rolling Stone ensures that the happiest song on the album is California (There is no end to love) , in which the band recalls his first trip to California. At the other end is Raised by Wolves , which tells the story of an attack in Dublin. “It was a real incident that happened in our country when three bombs exploded installed in vehicles while in Dublin, on Friday at 5:30 pm,” Bono said. The album also includes a song with the name of the street you grew Bono, Cedarwood Road.