U2 will join Green Day, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw playing live at 47th
Grammy Awards next month.

Bono was in Cannes, France last night as U2 were honoured at the 2005 NRJ Awards.

Readers of Rolling Stone magazine have made U2 'Best Band' and 'Artist of the Year' in their annual poll... and that's not all.

Digital download sales overtook those of 'physical' singles in the UK in 2004 - and U2's 'Vertigo' was the best-seller.

That's how novelist Salman Rushdie describes the unique relationship between U2 and longtime photographer Anton Corbijn.

The answer, for young bands today is simple, says Edge, in the second part of the NME interview.

"I'm sure there ...

Check the first of our exclusive extracts from the recently published photo-documentary of U2's touring history - 'U2 Show'.