U2 Can't Leave Behind Beautiful Day on Letterman

U2 turned back to their blockbuster hit from All That You Can’t Leave Behind Thursday night on David Letterman with their performance of Beautiful Day. Beautiful Day is undoubtedly one of the band’s most successful singles but I would have loved to see the band perform another song off of No Line on the Horizon instead. Word is that the band performed Vertigo after the show went off the air. The interesting part of this performance of Beautiful Day was Bono’s impromptu reference of Joey Ramone and The Beatles throughout the song. The Beatles turned in one of the most historic television performances in the same Ed Sullivan Studio that U2 was performing in and The home-grown Ramones connection to the city of New York is very strong as is U2’s—the band performed In a Little While to Joey Ramone on one of Joey Ramon’s last days in the hospital before his premature death.

U2 also turned in a performance Friday morning at Fordham University live on Good Morning America. We’ll hope to have a link to video of the performance soon.