U2 took home the award for Best Original song at Sunday night’s 71st annual Golden Globe ceremony. “Ordinary Love” was written for and featured in the film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
“This really is personal, very very personal,” Bono said during his acceptance speech. “[Nelson Mandela] turned our life upside down, right side up. A man who refused to hate but he thought love would do a better job. We wrote a love song because its kind of what’s extraordinary about the film. It’s a dysfunctional love story.”
“Ordinary Love” beat out Coldplay’s “Atlas” (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez’s “Let It Go” (Frozen), Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s “Please Mr. Kennedy” (Inside Llewyn Davis), and Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff’s “Sweeter Than Fiction”(One Chance).
U2 also made a surprise appearance on Saturday night at Sean Penn’s third annual Help Haiti benefit show, performing three songs including “I Will Follow,” “Desire,” and “Vertigo.”