Ordinary Love (U2 song)

"Ordinary Love"
Cover art designed by Oliver Jeffers
Single by U2
from the album Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
B-side"Breathe" (Mandela version)
Released29 November 2013
StudioElectric Lady Studios (New York)
GenreRock
Length3:39 (single version)
3:47 (Extraordinary Mix)
LabelInterscope[1]
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s)Bono[2]
Producer(s)
  • Danger Mouse
  • Declan Gaffney (add.)
U2 singles chronology
""I Will Follow" (live from Glastonbury)"
(2011)
"Ordinary Love"
(2013)
"Invisible"
(2014)
Music video
"Ordinary Love" lyric video on YouTube

"Ordinary Love" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It was written to honour Nelson Mandela and is included in the biography film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. The song received a limited 10-inch vinyl release on Record Store Day[3] on 29 November 2013, less than a week before Mandela died.

"Ordinary Love" peaked at number one on the Top Digital Download chart in Italy, where it was certified platinum by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry.[citation needed] U2 won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and in January 2014 the song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, but it lost to "Let It Go" from Frozen.

An alternate version of the song, titled the "Extraordinary Mix", was included on deluxe edition of the band's 2017 studio album, Songs of Experience.

  1. ^ "U2 – Ordinary Love". Record Store Day. 2013. Archived from the original on 4 November 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
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