We’re playing our entire music catalog, A through Z, all this week! One of the songs under the letter “I” is “I Will Follow” by U2.

[photogallerylink id=48262 align=right]Released in October, 1980, it is the opening track from their debut album, Boy.

“I Will Follow,” U2′s most frequently performed song, was written by Bono after the tragic death of his mother, who died of a brain hemorrhage at the funeral of her father, when Bono was 14.

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[metrolyrics artist="U 2" song="I Will Follow"]

U2 Performing “I Will Follow” at Red Rocks

Boy Song Titles

1. I Will Follow
2. Twilight
3. An Cat Dubh
4. Into the Heart
5. Out of Control
6. Stories for Boys
7. The Ocean
8. A Day Without Me
9. Another Time, Another Place
10. The Electric Co.
11. Shadows and Tall Trees

“I Will Follow” had a second single release as a live version in the Netherlands and Germany in 1981, and a third release in the U.S., lifted from the Under the Blood Red Sky album, in 1983.

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I Will Follow – U2, Original Music Video

I Will Follow – U2, Live from Boston, Elevation Tour, 2001

[Source: last.fm]