Bono News: Bono’s Search for a “Spiritual Mecca”: Daniel Lanois on U2’s “No Line on the Horizon”

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New single “Get On Your Boots” offers some clues, but Lanois filled us in on the bigger picture: “We worked in France, New York and London, but Bono felt that [Morocco] was the spiritual crossroads of the world right now, so we rented out an old Riad hotel and brought in all of our own equipment.” The result, he said, is “incredibly innovative " a lovely blend of technology and hand-played instruments. It embraces the future, but still pays respect to tradition.” And while the album, which was four years in the making (and recorded digitally throughout), has evolved since...

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