Missed this last week, but Wim Wenders new movie, “Don’t Come Knocking” was released on the 16th in New York and LA.
The film, a western starring Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange and Tim Roth, won rave reviews at the Cannes Film Festival.
Bono and The Edge wrote the title track for the movie and recorded while touring last year in Amsterdam.
With Edge on guitar and Bono – joined by Andrea Corr – on vocals, the track was produced by Garret Lee in a hotel in Amsterdam when the band were playing the city last summer. It was a close call according to Wim, who said that Bono and Edge had been planning to write a title track for the film but the pressures of the touring schedule nearly made it impossible.
“Our deadline was coming closer and closer and it was a very simple one. When we had to start making release prints, it would be too late. I kept that date open as long as possible and never gave up the hope that things would work out in the last minute. And they did! Literally in that last minute the song came in!”
But it was worth the wait, he says.
“I got goose pimples when we first heard it and saw it with the picture. It has heartbreaking lyrics and the duet with Bono and Andrea Corr is stunning… I can’t wait for you to all hear it!”
Watch a trailer from the movie here
Or hear a clip of the song here.
