Apple marked the launch of their new products by giving everyone with an iTunes the new U2 album. The decision has not been universally well recieved and many immediately took to Twitter to complain about this infringement of their iTunes libraries. Comments included this from Owen Williams "Hi @tim_cook, my iPhone has a virus called "U2" how do I uninstall it?"
Whilst U2 might not be everyone's cup of tea, it's hard to deny the universal impact of the band. In 1999, Arena interviewed Bono after an unlikely partnership with Salman Rushdie. In Rushdie's novel "The Ground Beneath Her Feet", singer Vina Aspara is caught up in an earthquake on Valentines Day in 1989 and never seen again. On that day, Rushdie's own life was in upheaval as Ayatolla Khomeini pronounced the Fatwah against him. Bono based a song around the lyrics from the book and performs it here with guitarist, The Edge.
