![]() ![]() Indeed, I make a brief appearance in his tome (commemorated as a “gifted know-it-all”) and have written my own account of our friendship and rivalry, Killing Bono. I have known Bono since he was plain Paul Hewson and we were both pupils at Mount Temple, a non-denominational comprehensive in Dublin. Are these goals fired by the engine of a sense of duty or of a swollen sense of self?” “This long struggle for art, for justice, for self-aggrandizement. Burning through the pages is a tangible desire for the 62-year-old author to explain himself – to his family, friends and fans, certainly, but most of all, I suspect, to himself – as he wrestles with the existential question of Being Bono. Surrender offers a sprawling, haphazard, open-hearted account of what he acknowledges has been a “paradoxical life… where the overly rewarded rock star bangs on about the plight of the poorest people”. ![]() “None of it compares with the kind of s- I accuse myself of, especially onstage.”Ī 5’5½” pugnacious do-gooder in flashy sunglasses and dubious haircuts, he is the kind of rock star you can’t avoid even if you don’t care for his musical oeuvre, a passionate, preachy show-boater as well known for his charitable advocacy as his songcraft. “As the lead singer of the U2 group, I get a fair amount of harassment,” he drily acknowledges in Surrender, an autobiography as bravura, emotional and operatic as one of his band’s anthems. ![]() Bono may be the most loved and loathed rock star of our times. ![]()
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