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U2 have revealed they were offered £12.5 million to allow their hit Where The Streets Have No Name to be used in an advert, but turned it down.

The 45-year-old singer said, "We almost did. We sat down. I know from my work in Africa what £12.5 million could buy. It was very hard to walk away from £12.5 million.

"So we thought, `We'll give the money away.' But if we tell people we're giving the money away, it sounds pompous. So we'll just give it away, and take the hit. That's what we agreed.

"But if a show is a little off, and there's a hole, that's the one song we can guarantee that God will walk through the room as soon as we play it. So the idea that when we played it, people would go, `That's the

such-and-such commercial,' we couldn't live with it.

"Had it been a cool thing, or didn't have a bad association, or it was a different song, we might've done it."