{"id":28890,"date":"2024-02-28T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-28-1983-u2-releases-their-third-studio-album-war\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T18:03:44","slug":"on-this-day-february-28-1983-u2-releases-their-third-studio-album-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-28-1983-u2-releases-their-third-studio-album-war\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, February 28, 1983: U2 releases their third studio album, &#8216;War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-27\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag_0.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On this day, February 28, 1983 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2\u00a0<\/strong>released their third studio album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">War<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, produced by\u00a0<strong>Steve Lillywhite<\/strong>.\u00a0The album, which is considered the band&#8217;s first overtly political record, featured two future U2 classics, \u201cSunday Bloody Sunday\u201d and \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day,\u201d which became the band\u2019s first single to chart on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">Hot 100.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album became the band\u2019s first U.K. number one, knocking\u00a0<strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>\u2019s<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Thriller\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">out of the top spot. In the U.S., it peaked at 12 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200 album chart and went on to become the band\u2019s first album to be certified Gold by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A remastered version of <em>War<\/em>\u00a0was released in July 2008, including a deluxe version that featured a bonus CD made up of B-sides, live tracks and rarities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2 is set to wrap their Las Vegas residency, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">U2: UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, soon. They have two more shows on the schedule, with the 40th and final show set to happen March 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, February 28, 1983 \u2026 U2\u00a0released their third studio album,\u00a0War, produced by\u00a0Steve Lillywhite.\u00a0The album, which is considered the band&#8217;s first overtly political record, featured two future U2 classics, \u201cSunday Bloody Sunday\u201d and \u201cNew Year\u2019s Day,\u201d which became the band\u2019s first single to chart on the\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100. The album<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-28-1983-u2-releases-their-third-studio-album-war\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}