Music
03 Apr 06

U2 provide film title track

They've accomplished more than many other bands but until now there was still one field not yet tackled by U2- the western theme song.

U2 supply the title-track for the new Wim Wenders film, Don’t Come Knocking, which premiered last week in the States.
Featuring The Edge, Bono and guest vocalist Andrea Corr, the slowburning ballad was produced by Garret Lee in an Amsterdam hotel room, and features such couplets as: “You’re everything I could want/There’s no house you couldn’t haunt/You’re the key that could keep me in/You’re the sense, under the skin.”
With the band in the middle of their Vertigo world tour, it was touch and go as to whether Edge and Bono would make the deadline.
“It was coming closer and closer and it was a very simple one – when we had to start making release prints, it would be too late,” says the German director. “I kept that date open as long as possible and never gave up the hope that things would work out at the last minute. And they did! Literally at the last minute the song came in.
“I got goose pimples when we first heard and saw it with the picture,” he continues. “It has heartbreaking lyrics and the duet with Bono and Andrea Corr is stunning.”
A western starring Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange and Tim Roth, Don’t Come Knocking has been given a pretty much unanimous ‘thumbs up’ by the US media and opens here in the summer. A clip of the song can be heard on u2.com.