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...U2 might publicly support development aid to Africa, but it is taking advantage of the same tax-avoidance schemes that multinational companies use to deprive developing countries of important revenue.' HANS ZOMER, director of Dochas, an association of Irish development groups, blasting U2 for relocating assets overseas after Ireland ended a tax-free deal for artists...
...sound doesn't provide much refuge. Work on No Line on the Horizon began in 2007, when the band decamped to Morocco with Brian Eno and Danny Lanois, the men who oversaw U2's 1980s transformation from anthem singers to makers of textured, daring rock. As a hedge, the band also paid visits to Dublin and London to check in with Steve Lillywhite, who helped U2 crank out some of its muscular early and recent hits. (Most bands would have to take out a second mortgage to cover the per diem for just one of these producers...
...song that seems to work on all the levels U2 intended is "Moment of Surrender." Clocking in at more than seven minutes and moving with the deliberate shuffle of a man wandering empty streets, it gives Bono a shot to channel Sinatra at his loneliest. You can hear an organ and a cello and a lot of other sounds that are hard to pinpoint, but they gradually converge into a heartbreaking melody as Bono stares into the reflection of an ATM and discovers he can no longer recognize his own face. As the tune fades out, he lets loose another...
Read TIME's 2005 cover story about U2...
Read a review of U2's performance at the 2008 Grammy awards