"A Day Without Me" is a song by Irish rock band U2, and the eighth track on their debut album Boy.
[3] However, this information was erroneous as the band performed the song in Dublin in February 1980, musically and lyrically unaltered from its release format, a few months before Curtis's death.
The image on the single's cover, photographed by Susan Byrne, is of a footbridge at Booterstown railway station in South Dublin.
[5] The image echoes the Joy Division photoshoot on the Epping Walk Bridge in Hulme, Manchester, that featured in an article of New Musical Express in January 1979.
The two songs were linked by a drum segue leading from the end of "I Threw a Brick Through a Window" into "A Day Without Me", and this pairing lasted until April 1985.