U2 - Gloria (RSD Black Friday 2021)

This is a Record Store Day Black Friday 2021 release, available in-store on Friday 26th November and online from 8am on Saturday 27th.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the U2 single Gloria, originally released as a single in October 1981, the second single to be taken from U2s second studio album October. It remains a staple in U2s live set ever since. This 40th anniversary limited edition EP includes the studio version of Gloria plus three live versions from three different decades. The 1990s are represented by the Point Depot show on the bands home turf of northside Dublin (track A2). Although ticketed as 31st December 1989, the show started at midnight on 1st January 1990 and was broadcast across Europe at the time. Side B contains two previously unreleased live recordings of Gloria recorded at the Fleet Center in Boston during the Vertigo tour in 2005, and at Londons O2 Arena during the third night of their run of shows in the English ca