Matt McGee ([email protected])
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:33:54 -0800
Thanks to TD for this one. It's an AP story. Webmasters - use at your own
risk on the various websites. The AP has actually come after me in the
past for posting their stories on @U2 and demanded I remove them ... or
else. Probably better to stick with the aticles Deseree already posted on
the websites.
Enjoy!
Matt
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AP Worldstream
January 22, 1999; Friday 07:23 Eastern Time
Author Rushdie joins U2 in pop collaboration Britain-People-U2-Rushdie
DATELINE: LONDON
Author Salman Rushdie he of ''The Satanic Verses'' has contributed lyrics
to a new song by the Irish rock band U2, The Guardian newspaper reported
Friday.
Rushdie, who lived for nearly a decade under an Iranian death sentence
prompted by the 1989 book, gave U2 lead singer Bono the lyrics from his
new novel, ''The Ground Beneath Her Feet,'' the newspaper said.
The romantic ballad, also to be called ''The Ground Beneath Her Feet,''
will be on U2's next album, the report said.
''Bono and I have been friends for several years, and I sent him the
novel when I'd finished it, and he responded by coming up with this
beautiful melody,'' the newspaper quoted Rushdie as saying. ''Simple as
that, but of course very pleasurable.''
A spokeswoman for Rushdie's literary agency, who declined to give her
name, said the agency would have no comment on The Guardian's report.
The newspaper said U2 hopes to release the single on its own to coincide
with the April 13 release of Rushdie's novel. The lyrics for the song are
included in the novel, which tells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
against a rock 'n' roll background, it said.
The author's collaboration with U2 would not be his first: He appeared on
stage with the band in London in 1993.
Rushdie was condemned to death in 1989 after the late Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, the founding spiritual leader of the Islamic republic, ruled
''The Satanic Verses'' was blasphemous to Islam.
In October, the Iranian government said it was distancing itself from the
edict, but hard-liners insist there's still a price on the author's head.
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