new U2 song "Glastonbury" features Joseph of Arimethea...

 Well, not in person..not like he sings backing vocals  (:
See video below, and Beth unpacks some of the lyric here.

"For a flowering rose, I would bend my knee
I came to find the flowering rose
The flowering rose of Glastonbury"

..You are... the miracle I came here to find"




PS:  The two other "new" songs/ they debuted/test drove the other night in  Milan, if you haven't heard..
-Concert opener, "The return of the stingray guitar" (rumored to be a leftover from 1983)::

-"North Star," originally a song they recorded over ten years ago with Michael W. Smith on keyboard (and a tribute to Johnny Cash):