 Members of the London band Mnemonic Richard Das and Jonathan Skipp had heard Bono and the Edge perform a verse of this song as they were writing it for the upcoming film "The Million Dollar Hotel" on a television program in September 1999 and then interpolated verses and chorus from the Salman Rushdie book "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" to complete their own version of the song.Band members contributed their parts and a final version was mixed and completed in December 1999.The band released it free on the internet downloadable from mnemonicgroove.com in January 2000 before the official U2 version (released 8, February 2000).