Watch U2 perform ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ for the first time since 1987
At the weekend, U2 revived their cover of Darlene Love’s ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ after nearly 36 years during their performance at the Las Vegas Sphere.
The Irish quartet performed the 1963 Christmas hit for the first time since 1987 during their Sphere show on Friday, December 15th. The last time they undertook the song was in December of that year, as they finished the Joshua Tree tour at the Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.
Notably, selected songs from that show were featured on the band’s 1988 release Rattle and Hum, a hybrid of a live and studio album that pulled together live Joshua Tree cuts and new collaborations with the likes of Bob Dylan and B.B. King. However, ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ was not featured on the record.
The cover did receive an official video in November 1987, with a clip filmed at Baton Rouge’s Assembly Center before U2’s concert took place there later that evening. It was then officially released the following month on the charity compilation, A Very Special Christmas.
In other U2 news, in late November, bassist Adam Clayton revealed that the group’s progress on new material depends on the recovery of drummer Larry Mullen Jr, who has taken time out for the first time in four decades to undergo surgery.
Meanwhile, frontman Bono promised that same month that the band’s next album will be an “unreasonable guitar record”. The vocalist had previously stated that the album would be “noisy” and “uncompromising”.
Watch the footage of U2 performing ‘Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)’ in Las Vegas below.
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