Surrender

Bono - Künstler, Aktivist und Sänger der irischen Rock-Band U2 - legt seine umfassende Autobiografie mit dem Titel SURRENDER vor. » In seiner Autobiografie erzählt Bono schonungslos von Ängsten und Selbstzweifeln. ... So offen und selbstkritisch hat man diesen Schamanen des Rock noch nicht erlebt. « Welt am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2022 » Bono zeigt, wie geistreich er schreiben kann. ... Die Liebe zur Musik ist immer da, spricht aus jeder der 696 Seiten ... Und die Liebe zur Welt und den Menschen darin. « Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31. Oktober 2022 » ... Dafür ist er Bono, der Emotionsmensch, der seiner Leserschaft einen Einblick in seine Seelenwelt gibt, in seine Welt aus Glaube, Poesie, Musik und Liebe. « Deutsche Welle, 1. November 2022 Bono ist einer der international bekanntesten Musiker. In SURRENDER schreibt er zum ersten Mal selbst über sein Leben und über die Menschen, die ihm nahestehen. Er berichtet von seiner Kindheit in Dublin, vom plötzlichen Tod seiner Mutter, die er mit 14 verlor, von U2s unglaublichem Aufstieg zu einer der einflussreichsten Rock-Bands der Welt, bis hin zu seinem Engagement gegen Aids und den Hunger in der Welt. Aufrichtig, tiefsinnig und auch selbstironisch gibt Bono einen Einblick in sein Leben - wie seine Familie, seine Freunde, seine Musik und sein Glaube ihn stützen, herausfordern und formen. SURRENDER ist ein literarisches Memoir in der Tradition der großen irischen Geschichten-Erzähler. Nach sieben Jahren Arbeit ist eine faszinierende, detailreiche Geschichte über seine Familie, Religion und sein Leben als Künstler, Musiker und Aktivist entstanden. Der Untertitel "40 songs, eine geschichte" bezieht sich auf die 40 Kapitel des Buchs, die jeweils mit dem Titel eines Songs von U2 überschrieben sind und alle für sich als Kurzgeschichte gelesen werden können. Alle Kapitel werden von Illustrationen eingeleitet, die Bono selbst gezeichnet hat. Bono über SURRENDER : » Als ich begann, dieses Buch zu schreiben, hoffte ich, genauer aufzeichnen zu können, was ich bisher in meinen Songs nur skizziert habe. Die Menschen, Orte und Chancen in meinem Leben. Das Wort 'Hingabe' hat für mich große Bedeutung. Denn sie war mir nicht in die Wiege gelegt, als ich in den 70ern in Irland mit - musikalisch gesprochen - erhobenen Fäusten aufgewachsen bin. Es ist ein Wort, das ich nur umkreiste, als ich anfing, mir erste Gedanken über das Buch zu machen. Ich mühe mich immer noch ab, diese Demut lehrende Eigenschaft zu meistern - in der Band, in meiner Ehe, in meinem Glauben, in meinem Leben als Aktivist. SURRENDER ist die Geschichte eines Pilgers, der nicht so recht vorankommt ... mit einer Menge Spaß dabei. « Bono, der Sänger von U2, wurde als Paul David Hewson in Dublin geboren. Er lernte The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr. und Adam Clayton in der Schule kennen und gemeinsam gründeten sie 1978 die Band U2.  Doch Bono ist nicht nur der Front-Mann von U2, sondern auch ein wegweisender Aktivist . Nach seinem Einsatz für die Jubilee 2000 Schuldenerlass-Kampagne wandte er sich dem Kampf gegen Aids und gegen die Armut in der Welt zu.  Er ist Mitbegründer der Organisationen ONE und (RED) sowie des 2016 gegründeten The Rise Fund, einem internationalen Impact Fonds, der in soziale und ökologisch nachhaltige Unternehmen investiert. Bono hat zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter den Freedom of the City of Dublin Award (zusammen mit U2), die chilenische Pablo Neruda-Medaille, den Orden der französischen Ehrenlegion, die Honorary British Knighthood, den Fulbright Association Prize for International Understanding. Außerdem wurde er vom Time-Magazin zur Person des Jahres ernannt (neben Bill und Melinda Gates). Er lebt in Dublin mit seiner Frau Ali Hewson.

Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: 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.

"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. "When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim's lack of progress... with a fair amount of fun along the way." - Bono. As 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. 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. 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. 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. Surrender's subtitle, 40 Songs, One Story, is a nod to the book's forty chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created forty original drawings for Surrender, which will appear throughout the book."--

An updated and abridged edition of Bono’s bestselling memoir, including a new introduction by the author, Bono: Stories of Surrender is an unforgettable love story, a tribute to fatherhood, friendship, faith, and music. Honest, irreverent, and intimate, the book is a backstage pass to a frontman’s remarkable life, from Bono’s childhood in Dublin to the rise of U2. A companion to the Apple Original Film of his critically acclaimed solo theater show, Stories of Surrender is a luminous autobiography of one of the great voices of our time.Bono: Stories of Surrender, An Apple Original Film is streaming on Apple TV+ this MayOriginally published as Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story“Bono—the guy that wants to save the world. One of the Dubliners. Rock star poet. Lovable rogue. You have to appreciate his commitment to social causes—always pushing for change, always trying to fix things. Good for him. Most people don’t even bother. Trying to change the world and maybe transcend it. Singing for a world too obsessed with noise to listen. Searching for redemption like all of us are—and he seems to be aware of the depths of that search. He knows the distance between the soul and the public square. He’s got guts that guy. Bravo Bono.”—Bob Dylan“Bono tells us who he is as a friend and a family member, an artist and a true believer. The result is both electrifying and intimate, a spectacular read.”—Ann Patchett “Surrender is a rich and honest book, rich because of its honesty. If you want to know the man behind the shades, read this book. He’s worth getting to know.”—Salman Rushdie (lib)

'A brilliant, very funny, very revealing autobiography-through-music. Maybe the best book ever written about being a rockstar' CAITLIN MORAN_______________________________________________________________Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: 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.'When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim's lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way.' - BonoAs one of the music world's most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono's career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, Bono's autobiography, he picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. 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 14, to U2's unlikely journey to become one of the world's most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life - and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him.Surrender's subtitle, "40 Songs, One Story," is a nod to the book's 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book. (lib)