My past few New Year’s Eves have been really, well, not the best way to start the new year. But sorry to argue with Bono and U2–this year something changed on New Year’s Day!

U2: Pride (In The Name Of Love) and Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963

U2-Pride (In The Name Of Love)

Lilith Fair, the grrl-powered music festival, canceled their Arizona date after Go-Go’s lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, urged the show be moved out of Arizona because of the new “papers please” anti-immigrant law. The Go-Gos had been scheduled to headline.