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POP supergroups U2 and Green Day are heading for No.1 - with a song written 28 years ago by a pair of Scottish punk rockers in a Dunfermline bedsit.

The track - The Saints Are Coming - was recorded to raise cash for Music Rising, a charity set up to aid musicians who were victims of Hurricane Katrina.


The Irish band and US trio performed the song for the first time at a benefit gig to reopen the New L Orleans Superdome last week - marking the first home game of NFL side New Orleans Saints since the 2005 floods which claimed 1700 lives and left thousands homeless.

But The Saints Are Coming was written as an anti-sectarian anthem by teenage musicians, singer Richard Jobson and guitarist Stuart Adamson of The Skids.

Richard, now a successful film-maker, recalled the day he wrote the song with Stuart, who took his own life in 2001, aged 43.

He said: "It was written in Stuart’s bedroom in Dunfermline and polished up in a garage we rehearsed in behind Queen Anne High School nearby."