![]() “We’re luckier still that Bono not only has a dramatic personal history to tell, but he’s also a truly gifted writer. “Seven years ago another legend, the late Knopf editor Sonny Mehta, acquired the book, because he knew Bono fits into the tradition of literary Irish storytellers, and we were lucky to have Sonny’s notes on an early draft of the manuscript. #SurrenderMemoir /xOcUmmxs3j- U2 May 10, 2022īono’s editor at Penguin Random House US and Knopf publishing house executive vice president, Reagan Arthur, said: “All of the passion that Bono brings to his music and his life he also brings to the page. He reads from the chapter #OutOfControl about starting to write U2’s 1st single on, his 18th birthday, 44 yrs ago. ‘SURRENDER: 40 Songs, One Story’Ĭoming 1 Nov. The video illustrates an extract from Surrender’s Out of Control chapter, in which Bono describes writing U2’s first single on May 10 1978, his 18th birthday. The memoir’s subtitle, 40 Songs, One Story, references that the book’s forty chapters are each named after a U2 song.īono has also created 40 original drawings for the memoir and an animated video, narrated by him and based on some of his drawings ![]() “ Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress… With a fair amount of fun along the way.” 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.
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