U2 and RADIOHEAD join forces to raise the plight of AIDS holocaust in Africa.

After 150,000 votes over a nine month poll of nine U2 studio albums (before All That You Can't Leave Behind)) ...

Novelist Salman Rushdie was in hiding for fear of his life for many years. Then he showed up onstage with U2. Then he wrote a song with them. In this extract from a piece in The Sunday Times he recalls how it all came about.