
By Tim Masters Entertainment correspondent, BBC News U2 will take a break from their North American tour to play Glastonbury Bono has said that U2 are "delighted and humbled" to be headlining at next year's Glastonbury Festival over its 40th anniversary weekend.The band will lead the line-up at the Somerset show on Friday 25 June. "Everyone in the band is very excited about it," Bono told the BBC at the launch of an anti-Aids/HIV campaign. It will be U2's first festival gig for more than 25 years and will see them make a flying visit to the UK in the middle of a North American tour. Asked if he would use the festival to promote the campaign, Bono said: "I think it will just be about the music on that day, and that spirit that seems to take over everybody in that sacred ground." He added: "We'll certainly be well-rehearsed, we'll be coming straight from the tour." Red lacesBono was in central London on Monday to launch the "Lace Up.
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