Author Salman Rushdie has provided the lyrics to a new U2 song
CONTROVERSIAL author Salman Rushdie has contributed lyrics to a new
song for rock band U2. Rushdie, in hiding for nearly a decade
since a 'fatwah' by Iran's supreme leader for hit 1989 book The
Satanic Verses, gave U2 lead singer Bono the lyrics taken from
his new novel. The Ground Beneath Her Feet. The romantic ballad, also
to be called "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", will be on U2's next album.