Mojo - The Music Magazine

U2 have finally announced details of their new album.

No Line On The Horizon, the band’s 12th studio recording, will be released on March 3 through Interscope. Produced by long-term collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, …Horizon was recorded over the past year in Morocco, New York and London.

Meanwhile Brian Eno’s next major project will be to compose the score for the new Peter Jackson movie. The film, entitled The Lovely Bones, is an adaptation of Alice Sebold's 2004 novel and is due to be released in December 2009.

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Van Morrison has signed a deal that will bring his back catalogue to EMI, who will release his recent live performance of Astral Weeks early next year.

“I brought these records to EMI because they seem to have people with vision, who have 'ears' and who understand the significance of the complex arrangements and the classic essence of recordings like Astral Weeks," Morrison says. "They're committed to maintaining the integrity of the records I make. That is what it's all about to me."

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A new documentary on The Doors will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Written and directed by Tom DiCillo, When You’re Strange will feature unseen footage that helps documents the story of the band from their inception to the unexpected death of Jim Morrison in 1971. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek has described the film as "the anti-Oliver Stone" version. "This will be the true story of the Doors," he said.

Rhino will release a soundtrack to When You're Strange next summer.

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Paul Simon has been appointed to the Board of Trustees at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. It was announced yesterday that the legendary songwriter will play an advisory role at the music school which will involve “interactions with students and faculty."

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Aretha Franklin will perform at Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony in Washington DC next month in front of an estimated four million people. The singer, who also performed at Bill Clinton’s induction in 1993, attended an Obama rally in Detroit last summer where the president elect was seeing singing her hit song Chain Of Fools.

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Prince held a private playback session for his new album this week before allowing an LA radio station to premiere four of the tracks. The as-yet-untitled album, which is currently without a record label, is said to be heavily inspired by Jimi Hendrix and contains a cover of the Tommy James & the Shondells’ classic Crimson & Clover.

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And finally, watch Prince perform on stage with James Brown and…Michael Jackson! In this rare clip from 1983, the Godfather of Soul summons the purple one for some improvisational jamming after a reluctant Jackson is coaxed to join in. It has to be seen to be believed…