A CELEBRATION

UK

Japan

France
Commercial Release March, 1982
Record Label CBS Ireland / Island ROW
Top Chart Position US: NA, Canada NA, UK: 47
Album Non Album Single
TRACKLISTING 
  • A Celebration (2:57)
  • Trash Trampoline, and the Party Girl (2:32)
  • Fire (Album Version) (3:51)
LINER NOTES
Produced by Steve Lillywhite.
OTHER NOTES
A curiousity to say the least.  A Celebration was released by itself as a 7" single in the spring of 1982.  The song itself would never appear on a U2 album.  A promotional video accompanied the song's release.  The b-side had been a song performed live since the early days of U2.  It continued to be performed live into 2001's Elevation tour.  "Party Girl" as it became known, was also featured on 1983's Under a Blood Red Sky Live EP and the studio version would later appear on the Best of 1980 - 1990 B-Sides disc.  "A Celebration" has not been re-released in any form by U2 itself, although it has appeared on a few compilations over the years, including the Now That's What I Call Music 1982 Compilation, produced in 1999 in the UK.

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