Possibly as a tribute to Britney’s ordeal, word is that U2 will release a new single -‘Electric Storm’ – in September to precede a 17-song best of album due for an Autumn release. A French fansite said there would be a second new track on the best of – ‘The Hands That Built America’, written for Martin Scorsese's long-delayed epic, ‘Gangs Of New York’. The group's official website has post a snippet of the band performing the new song in the studio.
Meanwhile Bono has told a reporter in Dublin that: "The President of the United States actually doesn't have as much power as you think he does. He is held hostage in a lot of ways to his own Cabinet, and then Congress.” Bono said he had made the discovery when he decided to get behind Jubilee 2000, the lobby group focused on having third world debt cancelled. He says he had to go further than the US President to get action. "So I then met some people and asked their advice on how I would then get the debt thing furthered. They gave me a list of 20 really influential people in America who could stop debt cancellation"