Bono on Tutu and Mandela and the new South Africa, in a special edition of Dazed & Confused.

Anton Corbijn blogs on the fan snaps in Rolling Stone of his recent U2 shoot.

Producer Steve Lillywhite has joined the production team as the band hit
the final stretch in recording the new album.



Lillywhite, who ...

'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.

"We are getting closer to making the music we have always wanted to make.' says Bono, in an interview with Ireland's Sunday Independent.

U2's Manager Paul McGuinness talks about the potential for digital revolution ignited by Apple's i-Tunes - and what U2 and their new producer are up to in the studio.

'I Respect and Thank Them Very Much,' says released Burmese opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi...

That's how Edge describes the music the band are coming up with in the studio.

Comments on the new U2 recording among the highlights of Bono's recent 'TimesTalks' interview for the New York Times ...

...that's how Edge and Bono describe the band's Oscar nomination for 'The Hands That Built America'.

That's how Bono has described the new record U2 are making in the studio.

Bill Carter beamed a warzone into the Zoo TV Tour and produced 'The Road To Sarajevo', a classic cut on the 'Best Of 1990 - 2000' DVD. Third and final part of our U2.Com interview.

James Henke, Curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum, remembers first meeting - and writing about ...

'The only thing we could agree on was making music.' explains Larry in an interview ahead of 'In the Name of Love: Two Decades of U2'. 'We were no good at anything else.'

Bill Carter beamed a warzone into the Zoo TV Tour and produced 'The Road To Sarajevo', a classic cut on the 'Best Of 1990 - 2000' DVD.

Bill Carter beamed a warzone into the Zoo TV Tour and produced 'The Road To Sarajevo', a classic cut on the forthcoming 'Best Of 1990 - 2000' DVD.

'The sound of a rock giant accomplishing the most improbable of feats,' reports Billboard, as Edge takes us through the new release, song by song.

'The primary colors of rock'n'roll, that's where we're gonna take the next album.' Edge speaks to Billboard Magazine.

Larry Mullen Jnr has been speaking to Larry Gogan on Ireland's 2FM.

The nineties, says Edge, was about taking 'the idea of a rock 'n' roll band, abstracting it as far as you possibly could - and then reconstructing it again.'

Check U2.Com tonight (8pm GMT) as all four band members take part in a live
online global Q&A.



The link to the ...

Hear all four members of U2 as they take part in a live online global Q&A at 8pm (GMT) on Monday 4th November - despite being in three different continents at the time.