U2 frontman Bono releases memoir ‘Surrender’

By AFP

NEW YORK:  U2’s Bono on Tuesday launched his memoir “Surrender,” detailing the journey from his youth in Dublin to fronting one of many world’s most outstanding rock bands.

The introspective e book is organized throughout 40 completely different U2 songs, together with 40 unique drawings.

The 62-year-old artist born Paul David Hewson is a long-time humanitarian well-known for lending his voice to a wide range of causes, together with the combat in opposition to poverty and AIDS.

In his greater than 500-page e book, Bono delves in to these ambitions but in addition his progress as a young person struck by tragedy — his mom died all of the sudden when he was 14 — and an account of his coronary heart operation in 2016.

He additionally waxes on the perplexities and finer factors of songwriting, and “the pseudo-religious part of being a rock star, how we put the messy in messianic.”

“U2’s music was never really rock ‘n’ roll,” he writes within the e book. “Under its contemporary skin it’s opera — a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day.”

The rocker is selling the memoir with a 14-date e book tour entitled “Stories of Surrender,” which kicks off in New York this week and contains stops in Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid and, in fact, Dublin.

“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs,” Bono mentioned in an announcement when the e book’s publication was introduced earlier this 12 months.

“Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept,” he continued. “I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist.”

“Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress… With a fair amount of fun along the way.”

NEW YORK:  U2’s Bono on Tuesday launched his memoir “Surrender,” detailing the journey from his youth in Dublin to fronting one of many world’s most outstanding rock bands.

The introspective e book is organized throughout 40 completely different U2 songs, together with 40 unique drawings.

The 62-year-old artist born Paul David Hewson is a long-time humanitarian well-known for lending his voice to a wide range of causes, together with the combat in opposition to poverty and AIDS.

In his greater than 500-page e book, Bono delves in to these ambitions but in addition his progress as a young person struck by tragedy — his mom died all of the sudden when he was 14 — and an account of his coronary heart operation in 2016.

He additionally waxes on the perplexities and finer factors of songwriting, and “the pseudo-religious part of being a rock star, how we put the messy in messianic.”

“U2’s music was never really rock ‘n’ roll,” he writes within the e book. “Under its contemporary skin it’s opera — a big music, big emotions unlocked in the pop music of the day.”

The rocker is selling the memoir with a 14-date e book tour entitled “Stories of Surrender,” which kicks off in New York this week and contains stops in Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Madrid and, in fact, Dublin.

“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs,” Bono mentioned in an announcement when the e book’s publication was introduced earlier this 12 months.

“Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept,” he continued. “I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist.”

“Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress… With a fair amount of fun along the way.”