Bono and the Edge at Work on ‘Spider-Man - Turn Off the Dark’

NYTimes.com: "SHORTLY before midnight on a rainy Thursday, Bono was headed to work, bearing plastic bags of takeout food from Esca up to a Manhattan studio on a nearly deserted West 48th Street. “Rise Above 1,” the first single from the cast album of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” was due for release in less than a week; it wasn’t finished. Nor were the rest of the songs for the album, which arrives on Tuesday. That’s also the official opening night of the musical, with its songs by Bono and the Edge from U2. Its long, torturous run of Broadway previews has been — as a self-conscious new song lyric puts it — “a $65 million circus tragedy.” In separate interviews Bono and the Edge described the experience the same way: “humbling.”