Their band, according to Fork: 'Fork does to a cappella what Jimi Hendrix did to guitar music and what Viagra does to a man!' Three actors and a policeman were talking about forming a band in a Helsinki apartment in 1996 and the instruments they could play were not compatible with starting a rock band, but they realized that they could all sing! Since then Fork has made their own arrangements of about 50 rock and pop songs, from Bon Jovi and Michael Jackson to Robbie Williams, U2 and Whitney Houston. The group has played 'Beautiful Day' at every one of their concerts since the song's 2001 live debut on the Elevation Tour.Дў001 - Grammy Winner - Record of the Year In 2001, the song won three Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The song peaked at number 21 in the United States, the band's highest position since 'DiscothГЁque' in 1997. The song received positive reviews, and it became their fourth number-one single in the UK and their first number-one in the Netherlands. Lead singer Bono explained that the upbeat track is about losing everything but still finding joy in what one has.

The tone of the Edge's guitar was a subject of debate amongst the band members, as they disagreed on whether he should use a sound similar to that from their early career in the 1980s. Like many tracks from All That You Can't Leave Behind, 'Beautiful Day' harkens back to the group's past sound. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is U2's biggest hit to date.

It is the first track from their 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and it was released as the album's lead single. Readers voted the song the No.2 Best Single in the Hot Press Best National Poll Results.'Beautiful Day' is a song by the Irish rock band U2. The French release of A Day Without Me (b/w I Will Follow), which is in 7' format looks like a promo or jukebox issue however, it actually is a commercial release and is a rare find. The latter addition to the song would occur several times particularly during The Unforgettable Fire tour. For the MaGlasgow show, Bono added a snippet of Loch Lomond and during the US Festival on in Devore, California he added snippets of The Beatles' Dear Prudence while performing the song.

I Threw A Brick Through A Window precedes the song and this combination of the two songs would be played often in later shows. After hearing A Day Without Me in a record store, DJ Carter Alan of WBCN-FM in Boston became a U2 fan and was instrumental in introducing a US audience to U2 for the first time by including the song in his play list.ДЄfter omitting A Day Without Me from their set for six months, it was added back in for the Novemperformance in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Palladium. It was also the first recording with Steve Lillywhite producing - he would go on to produce U2's first three albums. The single A Day Without Me appears on U2's debut album Boy.

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