Bono Shares How His Bandmate Feels About His Memoir

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As we told you, Bono is set to release his new memoir, “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story,” on November 1st, and he’s already started promotion for the book. Over the weekend, he was interviewed at the "New Yorker Festival," where he performed a few songs, and opened up about the book and how his bandmates feel about it. 

When asked about the meaning behind the title, he admitted “surrender” isn’t something that’s easy for him. “I still find it hard to surrender to my bandmates,” he said. “As an older person, it gets even harder to surrender to my wife, to surrender to my maker. I’m a defiant character, but I’m working on that…That’s why I wrote the book.”

As for those bandmates, he revealed that Adam Clayton shared his thoughts on book, noting, “He thought I have drawn him a little bit as a caricature.” When asked if Adam was right, Bono noted, “For a few reasons. Maybe I didn’t want to fill in some details because I thought that might be too personal for him. It was my memoir.” 

Bono said Adam thought he didn’t write enough about the music, to which Bono responded, “I said, ‘Well, you know, it’s not just a music memoir. I wanted to give people a view that my life as an artist, my life as an activist, my life as a hooligan, my life as a husband, my life as a father [are] all the same to me. It was all part of the same creative canvas.'” 

He added, “It’s not a traditional rock and roll memoir in that sense,” sharing, “And it’s a love story; it’s a pilgrimage. The pilgrim’s lack of progress would be a better title.”

Source: Billboard