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When director Martin Scorsese called U2 looking for music for his new immigrant epic, "Gangs of New York," the Irish group didn't think twice. "We're huge fans of Scorsese," says U2 guitarist The Edge. "So we said Yeah' pretty much immediately."
The quartet came up with "The Hands That Built America," which appears both on "The Best of U2 1990-2000" (Island) and on the soundtrack album for "Gangs of New York" (Interscope).
"We saw a rough assembly of the movie near the end of last year and started work pretty much immediately on a few ideas, and one of them turned into The Hands That Built America,' " says The Edge, whose real name is David Evans.
"It's fun working on music for movies because it gives you a sort of emotional brief that you need to follow, but it's also very freeing. You can really experiment a lot, and we had a lot of fun writing The Hands That Built America' and working on it for the film. It feels like a U2 song, but from a different century."
Besides getting an early look at one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, The Edge says it was educational to get a look at the Irish immigration to America.
"We learn in school all about the [potato] famine and everything, but very little about what happened to the immigrants when they set foot on American soil," he says. "It's fascinating to get [Scorsese's] insight into what New York was like back then."
Song spotlight
When director Martin Scorsese called U2 looking for music for his new immigrant epic, "Gangs of New York," the Irish group didn't think twice. "We're huge fans of Scorsese," says U2 guitarist The Edge. "So we said Yeah' pretty much immediately."
The quartet came up with "The Hands That Built America," which appears both on "The Best of U2 1990-2000" (Island) and on the soundtrack album for "Gangs of New York" (Interscope).
"We saw a rough assembly of the movie near the end of last year and started work pretty much immediately on a few ideas, and one of them turned into The Hands That Built America,' " says The Edge, whose real name is David Evans.
"It's fun working on music for movies because it gives you a sort of emotional brief that you need to follow, but it's also very freeing. You can really experiment a lot, and we had a lot of fun writing The Hands That Built America' and working on it for the film. It feels like a U2 song, but from a different century."
Besides getting an early look at one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, The Edge says it was educational to get a look at the Irish immigration to America.
"We learn in school all about the [potato] famine and everything, but very little about what happened to the immigrants when they set foot on American soil," he says. "It's fascinating to get [Scorsese's] insight into what New York was like back then."
