U2 gave fans at their December 15 show at the Las Vegas Sphere a special Christmas gift by delivering their cover of Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) for the first time in 36 years.
The Dublin band last performed their cover of Darlene Love's 1963 Christmas classic, first released on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, on the final date of their epic Joshua Tree tour, on December 20, 1987, at Tempe, Arizona’s Sun Devil Stadium. The song featured in the subsequent tour documentary Rattle and Hum, but did not appear on the film soundtrack album. However an official video for the festive hit was filmed in November 1987 at the Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana before the band's gig, and emerged in conjunction with the charity compilation album A Very Special Christmas.
