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Fact #92963

When:

01011983

Short story:

New Year's Day by U2 is a song about the Solidarity movement in Poland. The lyric refers to Lech Walesa, the persecuted leader of Solidarity. Bono has said that when he was writing the lyric, "I must have been thinking about Lech Walesa being interned. Then, when we'd recorded the song, they announced that martial law would be lifted in Poland on New Year's Day. Incredible."