Bono revealed the news at press conference for U2's documentary From The Sky Down at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, reports Rolling Stone.
Explaining the covers album he said: "Jack White does ‘Love Is Blindness,' Depeche Mode do ‘So Cruel,' Patti Smith did ‘Until the End of the World,' Damien Rice does ‘One.’ It just goes on. And it’s strange, because when I hear the album, when U2 do it, all I hear is what’s wrong with it. But when I heard all these artists doing it, I thought, ‘It’s really good.'"
Bono added that artist Damien Hirst had recently made a video for "Even Better Than The Real Thing": "He made a very special art work, which has only been shown once and probably won’t be shown again, because [it was for the] Glastonbury festival and it’s an extraordinary work of art."
The covers album will be tied in with a reissue, "20 Years of Achtung Baby", set for release on October 31.
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