{"id":30024,"date":"2026-03-22T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T06:33:28","slug":"u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 &#8211; &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; was released 43 years ago today. More information here &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single-550x550.png\" alt=\"U2 - A Celebration\" class=\"wp-image-29209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single-550x550.png 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single-636x636.png 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>43 years ago, <strong>U2<\/strong> released the non-album single &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; on March 22, 1982. The video clip was filmed in a prison in Dublin. The lyrics are serious: <strong>U2<\/strong> warn of the atomic bomb. &#8211; A danger that is just as omnipresent today as it was back then. With &#8220;A Celebration&#8221;, the Irish band released perhaps one of their last post-punk compositions, as the punk and new wave influences faded more and more into the background.    <\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the video for &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; here:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/knElTgnoEZc?si=FXDxqrc1K7xJs42M\" title=\"U2 - A Celebration (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knElTgnoEZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; on March 22, 1982. The video clip was filmed in a prison in Dublin. The lyrics are serious: U2 warn of the atomic bomb. &#8211; A danger that is just as omnipresent today as it was back then. With &#8220;A Celebration&#8221;, the Irish band released [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177,8609],"tags":[6092,3739,4424],"class_list":["post-30024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complete","category-history-facts","tag-a-celebration-en","tag-nostalgia","tag-us-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U2 - &quot;A Celebration&quot; was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single &quot;A Celebration&quot; on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U2 - &quot;A Celebration&quot; was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single &quot;A Celebration&quot; on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orkus1.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3defb5d485b0848bb5bc45a032e1d419\"},\"headline\":\"U2 &#8211; &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; was released 43 years ago today. More information here &#8230;\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\"},\"wordCount\":101,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png\",\"keywords\":[\"A Celebration\",\"Nostalgia\",\"Us\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Complete\",\"History Facts\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\",\"name\":\"U2 - \\\"A Celebration\\\" was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00\",\"description\":\"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single \\\"A Celebration\\\" on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":1024,\"caption\":\"U2 - A Celebration\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Startseite\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"U2 &#8211; &#8222;A Celebration&#8220; was released 43 years ago today. More information here &#8230;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Orkus1.com\",\"description\":\"The darker side of music\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Orkus1.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/logo-orkus.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/logo-orkus.png\",\"width\":724,\"height\":164,\"caption\":\"Orkus1.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3defb5d485b0848bb5bc45a032e1d419\",\"name\":\"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/author\/claudi\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"U2 - \"A Celebration\" was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com","description":"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single \"A Celebration\" on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"U2 - \"A Celebration\" was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com","og_description":"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single \"A Celebration\" on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!","og_url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/","og_site_name":"Orkus1.com","article_published_time":"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":1024,"url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/"},"author":{"name":"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3defb5d485b0848bb5bc45a032e1d419"},"headline":"U2 &#8211; &#8220;A Celebration&#8221; was released 43 years ago today. More information here &#8230;","datePublished":"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/"},"wordCount":101,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","keywords":["A Celebration","Nostalgia","Us"],"articleSection":["Complete","History Facts"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/","name":"U2 - \"A Celebration\" was released 43 years ago today. More information here ... - Orkus1.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","datePublished":"2026-03-22T06:33:00+00:00","description":"43 years ago, U2 released the non-album single \"A Celebration\" on March 22, 1982. Did you already know ...? - Orkus!","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","width":1024,"height":1024,"caption":"U2 - A Celebration"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/u2-a-celebration-was-released-43-years-ago-today-more-information-here\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Startseite","item":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"U2 &#8211; &#8222;A Celebration&#8220; was released 43 years ago today. More information here &#8230;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/","name":"Orkus1.com","description":"The darker side of music","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#organization","name":"Orkus1.com","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/logo-orkus.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/logo-orkus.png","width":724,"height":164,"caption":"Orkus1.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/3defb5d485b0848bb5bc45a032e1d419","name":"Claudia Zinn-Zinnenburg","url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/author\/claudi\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/03-22-U2-A-Celebration-Non-Album-Single.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30025,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30024\/revisions\/30025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}