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from atu2. an interview with journalist who first spoke about "sacred heart of maliubu"
At the end of the book, you mention some more songs besides "Mother Of Pearl," "Glastonbury" and "The Sacred Heart Of Malibu." These songs were still a work in progress, but could you tell a bit about how they sounded? One was an instrumental outtake from No Line On The Horizon.
It was a riff being played over and over; it sounded like a Velvet Underground song, but played by better musicians. It was medium tempo; it went on and on, not in 4/4.
[In the last chapter of the book, the author describes how he sang background vocals with Niall Stokes on a recording of "Glastonbury" in Edge's home studio.] I sang background on what was "Glastonbury," but now they play it totally differently. The line I sang was, "I was born, born to fly!" but it isn't in the song anymore. The funny thing was, the day before, I was in a pub with someone who asked me if I'd ever met Niall Stokes. I hadn't. "Well," he says, "I can introduce you." Next day I was standing next to him singing in the microphone!
It's always difficult to say how songs turn out, because unreleased music changes all the time with U2.
Anton [Corbijn] was upset with the fact that they let him make a movie and then turned the whole record around. They took some songs out and put some new songs in. He was supposed to make a movie with the songs in the order of the album. I'm sure there were some words between them. Anton has a great sense of humor, but when it concerns his work….
At the end of the book, you mention some more songs besides "Mother Of Pearl," "Glastonbury" and "The Sacred Heart Of Malibu." These songs were still a work in progress, but could you tell a bit about how they sounded? One was an instrumental outtake from No Line On The Horizon.
It was a riff being played over and over; it sounded like a Velvet Underground song, but played by better musicians. It was medium tempo; it went on and on, not in 4/4.
[In the last chapter of the book, the author describes how he sang background vocals with Niall Stokes on a recording of "Glastonbury" in Edge's home studio.] I sang background on what was "Glastonbury," but now they play it totally differently. The line I sang was, "I was born, born to fly!" but it isn't in the song anymore. The funny thing was, the day before, I was in a pub with someone who asked me if I'd ever met Niall Stokes. I hadn't. "Well," he says, "I can introduce you." Next day I was standing next to him singing in the microphone!
It's always difficult to say how songs turn out, because unreleased music changes all the time with U2.
Anton [Corbijn] was upset with the fact that they let him make a movie and then turned the whole record around. They took some songs out and put some new songs in. He was supposed to make a movie with the songs in the order of the album. I'm sure there were some words between them. Anton has a great sense of humor, but when it concerns his work….
I wonder though, were these songs out-takes from NLOTH, or all-new songs with Danger Mouse?
So we should expect a Snow Patrol-sound, then? 
