{"id":30455,"date":"2024-09-26T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-26-1979-u2-released-their-debut-ep-three\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T18:06:10","slug":"on-this-day-sept-26-1979-u2-released-their-debut-ep-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-26-1979-u2-released-their-debut-ep-three\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 26, 1979: U2 released their debut EP, &#8216;Three&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-26\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 26, 1979 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>U2\u00a0<\/strong>made their recording debut with the release of a three-song EP, aptly titled\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Three<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The release featured the songs \u201cOut of Control\u201d and \u201cStories for Boys,\u201d which were both later rerecorded for their debut album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Boy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">. The other song on the release was the B-side \u201cBoy\/Girl.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2, of course, went on to huge success, releasing\u00a014\u00a0studio albums and selling over 150 million records worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Three\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">was later reissued in November 2019 as part of Record Store Day Black Friday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of its original release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">U2&#8217;s last release was 2023&#8217;s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Songs of Surrender<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which featured reworked versions of previously released songs. They have reportedly been working on a new album, which frontman <strong>Bono<\/strong> has described as a \u201can unreasonable guitar record.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 26, 1979 &#8230; U2\u00a0made their recording debut with the release of a three-song EP, aptly titled\u00a0Three. The release featured the songs \u201cOut of Control\u201d and \u201cStories for Boys,\u201d which were both later rerecorded for their debut album,\u00a0Boy. The other song on the release was the B-side<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-26-1979-u2-released-their-debut-ep-three\/\">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\/30455"}],"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=30455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}