Heralded by Rolling Stone as “a live act simply without peer,” the band’s record-breaking 360° Tour (2009–2011) remains the highest-grossing concert band tour of all time. The band released their first album, Boy, on Island Records in 1980 and to date have released a total of fourteen studio albums that have sold 157 million copies worldwide. He met The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., and Adam Clayton at school, and in 1978, U2 was formed. The lead singer of U2, Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin. Bono has also created forty original drawings for Surrender, which will appear throughout the book. Surrender’s subtitle, 40 Songs, One Story, is a nod to the book’s forty chapters, which are each named after a U2 song.

Writing with candor, self-reflection, and humor, 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 fourteen, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than twenty 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 the 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. Book Synopsis 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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