Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book.Bono has a new book coming out, and he’ll spend the month on November on the road promoting it. Surrender's subtitle, "40 Songs, One Story," is a nod to the book's 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song.
Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life - and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2's unlikely journey to become one of the world's most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. But in Surrender, it's Bono who picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. With a fair amount of fun along the way.' - BonoĪs one of the music world's most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono's career has been written about extensively. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim's lack of progress. 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. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. 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 - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written a memoir honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
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