Listen: U2 reveal previously unreleased track, Happiness

October 25, 2024
Listen: U2 reveal previously unreleased track, Happiness

U2 have shared a new track titled Happiness from How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb, the forthcoming collection of ten songs taken from the original recording sessions for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.

The band's eight-time Grammy winning 2004 album - which includes new, previously unreleased songs recently rediscovered in the band’s archive and available for the first time as a standalone shadow album on 29 November.

How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (Re-Assemble Edition) – featuring both How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and How To Re-Assemble An Atomic Bomb - will be available as a dual digital release on 22 November to mark its 20th Anniversary of this seminal album.

Happiness follows the first two songs to be made available from the new release, lead single Country Mile and Picture Of You (X + W).

U2 guitarist The Edge said, "The sessions for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb were such a creative period for the band, we were exploring so many song ideas in the studio.

"We were inspired to revisit our early music influences, and it was a time of deep personal introspection for Bono who was attempting to process - dismantle - the death of his father."