U2 song debuts in wrong place

U2 was forced to cancel a headlining gig at the 2010 Glastonbury Festival. The band wrote a song it intended to premiere at the festival but that plan changed after Bono injured his back. The U2 frontman had to take time off to recuperate from surgery.

Bono is back on his feet again and the Irish band resumed the 360° tour last Friday (August 6). Italian fans were the first to hear the new song, Glastonbury, as U2 rehearsed last week before the show. The rehearsal was caught on tape by a fan outside the stadium in Turin and it is now all over YouTube.

Two other new songs also saw the light of day in Turin. U2 played an instrumental piece called Return of the Stingray Guitar and an acoustic ballad called North Star.

When Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis heard how "heartbroken" Bono was about having to bow out of this year’s festival, he offered U2 the opening spot next year.