BBC Radio 2 Piano Room – Season 2023

Richard Marx

U2's Bono and the Edge

One of the most successful bands of all time, U2 have recently released their latest album Songs of Surrender, which sees the band revisit some of the most celebrated songs of their 40-plus-year career. Curated and produced by the Edge, classic tracks such as With or Without You, One, Beautiful Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Invisible undergo a musical reimagining, resulting in a completely new recording of each track, to include the arrangements and, in some cases, new lyrics. Songs of Surrender is a companion to Bono's memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, which was published in November 2022. Bono and The Edge perform their classic hits Vertigo and One with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Plus a special cover of ABBA's S.O.S.

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode perform from the BBC's Maida Vale studios in collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Having made their chart debut in June 1981, the band have travelled a long way from their early days in Basildon to global, stadium-filling superstars with more than 100 million records sold worldwide. The band has just released Memento Mori, their first album in six years and their 15th overall. Depeche Mode kicked off their 80-date world tour in March which continues into 2024. Lead singer Dave Gahan talks to Gary Davies and the band's set features Walking In My Shoes, Ghosts Again and their reworking of Gordon Lightfoot's Sundown.