Day The Wanderer Came To Town  02 October 2003 Day The Wanderer
Came To Town  'I think like so many of our best ideas, 'The
Wanderer' happened almost by magic.' recalls Edge in the latest
edition of Hot Press. 'We were working on the song, Bono got on
the mic to sing and he was going, 'I dunno quite how I'm gonna
approach this one.' And out of the blue he said, 'Hey, y'know, I
think Johnny Cash is in town, maybe we could get him to come and
sing on this, with me or instead of me.' I don't know quite what
he was trying to put over; at that moment I think we all
thought, 'Aw, Bono's just trying to create some sort of
distraction from the fact that he really has no idea what he
wants to do on the song, this is just one crazy idea too far.'
'But whenever something like that happens I've learned to bite
my tongue somewhat, because those crazy ideas often turn out to
be the ones that come to pass, and indeed this was one of those.
We got on the phone pretty much immediately to try and get
through to Johnny, and he