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| Length = | Label = Island | Producer = Steve Lillywhite | Last single = "A Celebration" (1982) | This single = "New Year's Day" (1983) | Next single = "Two Hearts Beat as One" (1983) | Misc = }} "New Year's Day" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is on their 1983 album ''War'' and it was released as the album's lead single in January 1983. Written about the Polish Solidarity movement, "New Year's Day" is driven by Adam Clayton's distinctive bassline and the Edge's piano and guitar playing. It was the band's first UK hit single, peaking at no. 10, also becoming the band's first international hit, reaching for example no. 9 in Norway, no. 11 on the Dutch Top 40, no. 17 in Sweden and charting on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the United States (just missing the Top 50) for the first time in their career. In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine placed the single at #435 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". This song was also included in the Pitchfork 500. ==Writing and composition== The lyric had its origins in a love song from Bono to his wife, but was subsequently reshaped and inspired by the Polish Solidarity movement. The bass part stemmed from bassist Adam Clayton trying to figure out what the chords to the Visage song "Fade to Grey" were. In 1983, Bono said of the song, "It would be stupid to start drawing up battle lines, but I think the fact that 'New Year's Day' made the Top Ten indicated a disillusionment among record buyers. I don't think 'New Year's Day' was a pop single, certainly not in the way that Mickie Most might define a pop single as something that lasts three minutes and three weeks in the chart. I don't think we could have written that kind of song." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New Year's Day (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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