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Imelda May has revealed Bono gave her some wise words about how her new 'break up' album could be a "game changer". The 41-year-old Dubliner, who is currently in the studio after splitting with husband Darrel Higham, revealed that the U2 frontman has been a "mentor" on the T-Bone Burnett-produced album. "The album is about my life and what I've experienced recently," she told the Irish Sun. "The songs are more honest than anything before. I've gone through friendship, divorce, falling in love again, falling out of love again. I've had a rollercoaster year and I am still in the middle of it." Imelda May salutes "producer and creator extraordinaire" T-Bone Burnett - she's nicknamed him 'The Wizard' Photo: Imelda May, Instagram "He (Bono) told me, 'If you get this record right it will be a game changer' and that became a song, Game Changer. "Bono has been like a mentor ...

Imelda and Bono tear it up as audience dances recession away Sunday December 18 2011 Looking like an Old Testament preacher on a festive jolly, Guggi was sitting next to me on Friday night at The 02 in Dublin. The artist smiled quixotically at me when I told him what was about to happen next was the worst-kept secret in Ireland. Then, seconds later, Guggi's best friend, a messianic fella by the name of Bono, joined headliner Imelda May and her band onstage for an audacious version of Desire by his band U2 (the rumour that Larry Mullen was to play drums proved unfounded). The 12,000 crowd went mental. Harry Crosbie, who owns the venue, had told me earlier in the bar that tonight "we would be witnessing a magical piece of rock 'n' roll history -- it was 23 years ago that U2 filmed music for the movie Desire in this building". When Bono and Imelda did another duet together -- a suitably festive and out-of-kilter version of Phil Spector's Christmas: ...