Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story will be released Nov. The singer also released an animated clip (see below) in which he narrates an excerpt from the book, reflecting on his 18th birthday in 1978 - the day Bono started to write “Out of Control." The rocker's journey has included over twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty, and just recently his social justice efforts expanded to include support for Ukraine in the country's conflict with Russia. Accepting an invitation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Bono and the Edge delivered a surprise 40-minute performance inside a Kyiv subway station that is serving as a bomb shelter. "We pray that you will enjoy some of that peace soon," the Irish rocker told the audience.īono picked his 62nd birthday on Tuesday, May 10, to share the news of his upcoming memoir. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist." "I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book," the frontman noted. "Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. He was inspired by it and immediately wrote the lyrics for the song.
There he saw Madres, women whose children had been imprisoned or murdered by the military regime there. Bono has previously addressed the impact of the loss of his mother on such U2 tracks as "I Will Follow," "Mofo" and "Out of Control."īono met the Edge and Adam Clayton while the three were attending school in Dublin in the mid-1970s, and had their first band rehearsal as U2 in September 1976. By the singer's own admission, "surrender" was a bit of a foreign idea back then. General Comment This song to me has 2 meanings: 1) It is really about an actual experience that Bono had while visiting El Salvador. Bono's mother died of complications from a brain aneurysm, and her sudden death is one of the factors that the drove the man born Paul Hewson towards music. One of the people who will receive focus in the new memoir is the singer's late mother, Iris Hewson, who passed away four days after collapsing at his father's funeral in 1987. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me." "The people, places, and possibilities in my life.
"When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs," Bono explained.
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