Bono’s memoir Surrender: '40 Songs, One Story' doesn’t come out until November 1, but you can check out an animated audio excerpt right here.
The story begins in 1976 when Bono notices a flyer pinned to his high school bulletin board: “Drummer seeks musicians for band.” “Funny how casually our destiny arrives,” Bono writes. “We’re all packed in the oven that is Larry’s kitchen. How do we fit all the drums, amps, and apprentice rock stars into such a small room?”
Mullen was a competent drummer even at this point, and Dave Evans was a skilled guitarist. The fact that Bono could barely sing and Adam Clayton didn’t really know how to play his bass didn’t matter much. “Adam was the spirit of rock and roll,” Bono writes, “a sort of posh Sid Vicious. If Larry gave life to the band, it was Adam who believed this band could give us a life.”
Each chapter in the book is named after a U2 song. “Bono takes readers 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,” reads a press release.
Bono is promoting the book with a theater tour of Europe and America, kicking off November 2 in New York City and wrapping up November 28 in Madrid, Spain. “I miss being on stage and the closeness of U2’s audience,” Bono said in a statement. “In these shows I’ve got some stories to sing, and some songs to tell… Plus I want to have some fun presenting my ME-moir, SURRENDER, which is really more of a WE-moir if I think of all the people who helped me get from there to here.
Bono’s future plans are unclear, though the band has been chipping away at a follow-up to their 2017 LP
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