Novelist Salman Rushdie was in hiding for fear of his life for many years. Then he showed up onstage with U2. Then he wrote a song with them. In this latest highlight from our archives he recalls how it all came about.

'We're still capable of doing our best-ever album.' Edge has been talking to Rolling Stone about the decade passing... and the one arriving. They've made No Line on the Horizon their 'Album of the Year' and Moment of Surrender their 'Song of the Year'.

'The most magical experience I've ever had in a studio'. It was pretty fine on the road too. Brian Eno talks to us about how Moment of Surrender came together during the recording of No Line On The Horizon.

Adam, Larry, Edge and Bono: 'They're all taking part but what's unusual is that they aren't going to be U2, so I think we'll see something pretty different.' Gavin Friday talks to us about a unique musical event coming up at Carnegie Hall, New York, a week on Sunday.

The band were in the studios of Toronto's The Edge music station yesterday. Toronto was ready to meet them... and the show's host got a little surprise.

'If I could only take one thing on tour it would be Irish tea bags.' Interview with Adam in The Observer Magazine.

'New Year's Day' is the soundtrack to a TV spot from The European Commission, celebrating the 20th anniversary of free elections in Poland earlier this year. The band play Chorzow in Poland tonight.

Ten dates in and tomorrow the band arrive in Dublin for the opening night at Croke Park.

At the stadium last night France 2 interviewed the band before they went on stage.

There's more going on under the hood of No Line On The Horizon than you might have realised...

'Whenever it started to look like something, Mark and I would push it in another direction. But it does look as though it has escaped from a giant space aquarium.' Willie Williams and Mark Fisher, the design team behind the new set, talk to the New York Times about how it all came together.

The band were guests of Pat Kenny last night, his final appearance presenting RTE's Late Late Show. After Magnificent and presenting Pat with some gifts, they also had some serious conversation. Edge, for example, has been looking at the build of the new show and thinks they might have designed the Eiffel Tower.

Adam with his flip cam, just before showtime on French TV

Wondered what the title of the new album is about? 'It's an image about the future and wanting to disappear into it...'

'It really works.' says Bono, 'It creates this real physical proximity to the crowd.' Rolling Stone on Willie Williams' design for U2 U2 360°.

That's Larry, talking to RTE 2fm DJ Larry Gogan, about the tour. Tune in Sunday to hear the whole interview.

'They don't think that any forum is unworthy of their attention.' Brian Eno on the secret of U2's success.

At the BBC on Friday the band talked about their admiration for Coldplay and what a great melodist Chris Martin is. Here's how the conversation went with Jo Whiley.

'The work we did in Fez was the most joyous and liberating part of the whole album process. It was what I had always imagined being in U2 would be about: just playing music for the joy of it with no real end in sight.' Larry speaking to Sean O'Hagan of The Observer in the first, great set piece feature to capture the story behind No Line on the Horizon.

'We came up with 'Sexy Boots' and everyone got very excited,' says Edge. 'But in the end we just thought it was a bit limiting so we took it in another direction.'

'Fully inhabiting the moment during that tiny dot of time after you've pressed 'record' is what makes it eternal.' What Frank Sinatra taught Bono.

'I think it's some of the best music we've ever written.' That's Larry, speaking in the new issue of Q, which carries four in-depth interviews in a monster thirty page focus on the new record. Highlights from the interviews which took place at Olympic Studios in London, in the final weeks of recording

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Was how Bono described 'War', the band's third album, in 1983. In an extract from his liner notes for next ...

Zane Lowe's Radio 1 'Masterpiece' series this Tuesday features Public Enemy - and a chat with Bono on the landmark ...