U2 Releases 'Torn,' Featuring Dolly Parton's Final Vocal Recording
Billboard • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Dolly Parton's final recorded vocal performance features in "Torn," a posthumous collaboration with U2, released as the closing track on U2's latest album, Carnaval De Luz.
- The song was co-written by U2, Parton, and Johnny McDaid, and showcases a country-tinged sound with multiple versions released by Island Records.
- Bono revealed that Parton recorded her vocals in June 2023, just two months before her passing, and described the recording as emotionally difficult to hear.
- Carnaval De Luz is U2's first album of new material in nine years, celebrating the band's 50-year legacy and preceding their planned 2027 world tour.
- U2 has sold 175 million albums, won 22 Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005, maintaining their status as one of the world's biggest bands.
