'What use would a rockstar be without a messianic complex?': Bono on his childhood, family, and U2's success
File photo. Image: DPA/PA Images U2 FRONTMAN BONO has spoken about what drove him to become an international rockstar, wondering was it “normal”.
Speaking to RTÉ’s Brendan O’Connor in a wide-ranging interview, the singer discussed his new memoir Surrender, his life growing up in Dublin, the untimely death of this mother, his relationships with his wife and his father, and the incredible success of U2. “There’s two ways to turn a grandstanding stadium singer out of a wee boy. You can tell them everything they do is worth hearing… or you can just ignore them, and that worked much better for me, it turned out,” he said.
He just kind… he took it very seriously. And I asked him, did he love my mother? And he said, Yes. And I said, How can that be? And he said it can. And I felt that was all I had the right to ask him. And he was very respectful. In general, Bono said he felt “very close to my father” as he wrote him in the book.
Bono also spoke about his friendship with Michael Hutchence, the late singer of INXS who died by suicide in 1997. Bono said the singer “disappeared into this hole” before he died. It is the most extraordinary …. it’s grand madness by 100 and it will centre around Achtung Baby, which we feel we need to honour, but we also have to have some new songs out, don’t we. There’s no place yet big enough. For us to go, it has to be something that no-one’s ever gone [to] before. Bono’s memoir Surrender was published at the beginning of the month. Making a difference
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