Bono.Photo: John Hewson
Bonohas told his story through song, and now, he’ll tell it in the pages of a book.
The U2 frontman, 62, is set to release a memoir titledSurrender: 40 Songs, One Storyin November.
Surrenderwill chronicle Bono’s Dublin childhood, including the loss of his mother at 14, U2’s rise to fame and his activism in the fight against HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty with “candor, self-reflection and humor,” according to a press release.
Surrender.Random House
“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me,” the musician said in a statement.
He continued, “Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. 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.Surrenderis the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress . . . With a fair amount of fun along the way.”
Ananimated videofeaturing an excerpt from the chapter titled “Out of Control” was released on Tuesday, and features some of the star’s drawings as it tells the story of Bono writing U2’s first single on his 18th birthday in 1978. The band’s first albumBoywould come out two years later.
source: people.com
