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 extract from a piece in The Sunday Times he recalls how it all came about.
If you are in the UK or Ireland this weekend, you'll notice the Sunday Times newspaper is giving away a free U2 CD with five audio tracks and never before seen video footage of the band.
The current Elevation 2001 arena shows are among the best U2 have ever played, explains Adam in a wide-ranging interview with Mark Lepage of the Montreal Gazette.
U2 have gone from 'struggling infancy to ranking in rock history along such greats as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Who' writes Robert Hilburn, Pop Music Critic of the LA Times.