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The band took a break from working with Danger Mouse on their new album to write "Ordinary Love" for the film at the request of Harvey Weinstein, the executive producer. "When I asked them to consider writing a song for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, it was the fastest 'yes' I have ever received," Weinstein said recently. "The band saw various cuts of the film over the summer and worked diligently to write a song that truly reflects Nelson Mandela.

"When I asked them to consider writing a song for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, it was the fastest 'yes' I have ever received," producer Harvey Weinstein is quoted as saying on the band's website. "The band saw various cuts of the film over the summer and worked diligently to write a song that truly reflects Nelson Mandela.

Grammy Award-winning Haitian, singer, songwriter and producer is raking in the honors - the human rights honors.

All of this was accomplished with one man, Paul McGuinness, in the job of band manager from the birth of U2 until November, when Principle Management Ltd., the company he founded in 1984, was acquired by Live Nation in a reported $30 million deal that also brought Maverick, headed by Madonna manager Guy Oseary, into Live Nation's artists division. With the deal, McGuinness, 64, assumed an emeritus role in the U2 organization, and Oseary was named U2's new manager.

(U2's most bruising and traumatic endeavors tend to be audacious side projects, like "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark," the chaos-plagued 2011 Broadway show with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge; it closed in January after reported losses of as much as $60 million and an embarrassing legal contretemps involving fired director Julie Taymor.

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