Bono

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“I’ve written a book with a title I’ve yet to fathom or properly grasp,” U2 singer Bono inscribed on the title page in my copy of his recent memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.” U2’s long, blockbuster career — 14 studio albums that have sold 170 million copies worldwide, plus 22 Grammys — is rooted in a similar quixotic ideal of trying to fathom big topics like love, faith and community.From their origins as a guileless, almost emo Irish post-punk band to their mulleted mainstream success in the late ’80s through…

Thirty years on, the Bosnian war still has the power to horrify, with its genocidal massacres and concentration camps in the heart of Europe even as international leaders solemnly avowed their determination never to repeat the nightmare of the second world war. Even now, cultural commentators call the 1990s the “Seinfeld decade” where nothing happened, disregarding the carnage in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.Nenad Cicin-Sain’s music documentary gives us an unofficial, unlicensed look at the nightmare of Sarajevo and the…

If it feels as though you can’t move for new music, then books about pop aren’t far behind. This Christmas alone has brought weighty tomes by Bono and Bob Dylan, Nick Cave’s conversations with the writer Sean O’Hagan, Bez’s autobiography, and former GQ editor Dylan Jones’s book about 1995. In recent years in the UK, two new imprints have launched – Nine Eight and White Rabbit – both running music-only lists within larger publishing groups. Omnibus is still soldiering on after 50 years, and the big non-specialist…

Bono came to London to deliver a show with pride – and unashamedly in the name of love. The man who has dominated arena rock across several continents for the best part of four decades chose “to forsake the stadium for the Palladium”, as he put it, to come on stage without his fellow members of U2 and “to be solo in Soho” – so that he might tell a quiet, unexpectedly intimate story of love and pain.Even before he walked on – to be backed by a harp, cello and percussionist-cum-musical director – it was clear that this was…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Toronto & GTA Music The 62-year-old released his memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, on Nov. 1 Bono speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, in New York. Photo by Julia Nikhinson /AP Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Bono may have sung a stripped-down version of Beautiful Day on…

Surrender begins with the U2 singer and activist nearly dying and ends with him being born. Both episodes are floridly written, a kind of poetic grandiloquence that tempers a default long-windedness throughout these 40 chapters (the “songs” of the title).But you don’t come to the 500+-page memoir by a big-mouth vocalist of a squillion-selling stadium act for pithiness. If Paul Hewson was born with “an eccentric heart” (a medical condition, rather than a metaphysical state), he also has 130% of a civilian’s lung capacity…

When manager Paul McGuinness took on U2 in 1978 he said, quoting F Scott Fitzgerald, that their 18-year-old frontman saw “the whole equation”. Incapable of meeting punk’s standards of cool, the young Dubliners found improbable success by going too far and being too much. That impulse produced fabulous coups, from their performance at Live Aid in 1985 to their reinvention of stadium rock with Zoo TV – as well as memorable disasters, notably the decision to deposit 2014’s Songs of Innocence into every iTunes account in the…

Bono has once again issued an apology for forcing U2’s 2014 album Songs of Innocence into everyone’s iTunes library.In an exerpt from his memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, via the Guardian, Bono admitted that he made a mistake when he convinced Apple to distribute the album to every user of its iTunes platform. At the time, Apple had yet to get into the world of streaming, with Apple Music arriving less than a year later.“Free music? Are you talking about free music,” Bono recalled hearing from Tim Cook, the CEO of…

Bono suggested the idea of giving away the album for free in 2014 to Tim Cook.Image: Emmanuel Dunand (Getty Images)Before you could stream your favorite album at will on the likes of Spotify or Apple Music, there was iTunes. In an experimental release strategy, U2's Songs of Innocence was uploaded to the iTunes libraries of users across the world, resulting in a wave of backlash. Eight years later, the band’s frontman Bono has finally apologized for the havoc his project wreaked.01:08Ernie Hudson | First FandomsFriday…