'It's really a celebration of U2 playing at home,' explains Ned O'Hanlon. 'A moment in time, a homecoming.'

In our first extract from the newly published 'U2, The Best of Propaganda', Neil McCormick trails U2 and Oasis in San Francisco.

'There's only one reason for U2 to put an album out right now,' Bono tells The Sun. 'It has to be a monster, a dragon, and this is.'

Edge has been speaking to Hot Press in Ireland about recording with Johnny Cash - while Bono spoke to Rolling Stone.