Irish rockers U2 are reteaming with long-term collaborators Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for help with their new album. The former Roxy Music star and Lanois famously produced the band's breakthrough fifth album, The Joshua Tree, but they've been invited into the studio this time to help pen lyrics for a follow-up to 2004's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Writing on U2's official website, drummer Larry Mullen says, "It's the first time we've worked with Brian and Dan in a purely songwriting capacity. So it's very different, quite experimental and kind of liberating because of that."The band are currently working on their new material in Morocco, and frontman Bono adds of the group's progress, "We have no plans for the music yet. We're just going to make it until we can't not put it out!" U2 launched in 1976 and remain one of the most popular acts coming to prominence at Live Aid in 1985 when during the song "Bad" Bono lept off stage to be near the crowd. Since then the band of Bono on vocals, The Edge on guitar, Adam Clayton on bass and Larry Mullen Jr on drums have gone on to sell more than 170 million albums worldwide. As well as their music the band, particularly Bono, have bee interested in social and political including the Live 8 concert where Bono and Bob Geldof encouraged people to head ro Edinburgh where the G8 was being held an demand that something be done about the poverty in Africa.

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