U2 win Golden Globe for Best Original Song
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U2 win Golden Globe for Best Original Song

U2 have scooped the award for best original song at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards.  

Ordinary Love - the band's first recording since 2010 - was recorded with Danger Mouse for the Nelson Mandela biopic Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

U2 frontman Bono said that the award was "very personal" and that working on the song for the film was an opportunity to complete their 35-year-long journey with Mandela, which began when they played at an anti-apartheid concert.

“This man turned our life upside down, right-side up,” he said of the late former South African leader.

“A man who refused to hate not because he didn’t have rage or anger or those things, but that he thought love would do a better job.”

The film 12 Years a Slave - starring Michael Fassbender alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor - won the sought after prize for best drama.

British director Steve McQueen's vivid illustration of pre-Civil war American slavery is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was tricked and sold into slavery.

The film only won one award out of its seven nominations.

American Hustle won three awards, including best film comedy or musical.