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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bono Delivers First Look at Highly Anticipated ‘Magical, Amazing' Project
First there was the book and the audiobook. Then the stage show. Now, U2 frontman Bono is coming to your house with the new Apple TV+ film Bono: Stories of Surrender, which will debut on the streaming service on May 30. The film is described as a 'bold and lyrical visual exploration of Bono's one-man show.' 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 It's the latest evolution in the project that began as the singer's acclaimed memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, which evolved into the one-man stage production, Stories of Surrender: And Evening of Words, Music, and Some Mischief. The film will include previously unreleased footage from the 'Beautiful Day' singer's April and May 2023 11-show run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, where he shared stories of his life and performed songs from the U2 catalog backed by sparse instrumentation rather than his usual U2 bandmates. In the video preview, released Wednesday, April 30, Bono is heard introducing the show by saying, 'These are the tall tales of a short rock star.' Fans are thrilled that the film will soon be released. Others, not so much. 'The 28th of April was 2 years since we caught this show at the Beacon (which was being filmed). So happy this is almost here. Magical!' wrote one, while another added, 'Saw this in NYC. Amazing.' However, one commenter was quick to bring up U2's famous previous flop with Apple, when the band's 2014 album, Songs of Innocence, was automatically downloaded into the iTunes accounts of millions of Apple customers, much to the displeasure of some. 'What dirt does Bono have on Apple Execs? The U2 iPod, the album no one wanted, now this,' they wrote. 'Who is he ? Cant Apple+ keep bringing things like Silo or Severance ?' another wrote. Speaking of Apple TV+ dramatic series. There is a Bono connection there as well. Bono's daughter, Eve Hewson, is one of the stars of the series Bad Sisters.
Gulf Today
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
Film version of Bono memoir to premiere at Cannes
Cannes is a short trip from Bono's seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a 'delayed adolescence.' 'I can tell you I've slept on beaches close to here,' Bono says with a grin. 'I've woken up in the sun.' But that doesn't mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He's here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary 'Bono: Stories of Surrender,' which captures his one-man stage show. Before coming, Bono's daughter, the actor Eve Hewson, gave him some advice. 'She said: 'Just get over yourself and bring it,'' Bono said in an interview on a hotel off the Croisette. 'What do I have to bring? Bring yourself and your gratitude that you're a musician and they're allowing you into a festival that celebrates actors and storytellers of a different kind. I said, 'OK, I'll try to bring it.'' 'Bono: Stories of Surrender,' an Andrew Dominik-directed black-and-white film that begins streaming May 30, adapts the one-man stage show that, in turn, came from Bono's 2022 book, 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.' In the film, Bono is self-effacing and reflective, sifting through the formative influence of his father, U2's skyrocketing to fame and considering how ego and social work might be related. He calls it 'the tall tales of a short rock star.' And as was the case on a recent sunny afternoon in Cannes, Bono makes a captivating raconteur. You've long maintained that globalization lifts developing nations out of poverty. What do you make of the shift away from globalization by many countries recently? Well, that's right. Globalization did very well for the world's poor. That and increased aid levels brought a billion people out of extreme poverty and halved childhood mortality — remarkable jumps for quality of life for human beings. But it's also fair to say certain communities really paid the price for that — here in Europe, in the United States. And I'm not sure those communities were credited enough for weathering storms that globalization brought. So I understand how we got to this place, but it doesn't mean that it's the right place to be in. Nationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits that can be drummed up. This is me speaking about surrender, 'Stories of Surrender,' at a time when the world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime. Do you have any sense yet of Pope Leo XIV? The new pope, he does look like a pope. That's a good start. I just saw the other day his first piece and he was talking about stopping shouting, God might prefer whispers. I thought, 'Oh, this could be interesting.' I'm more of a shouter myself. I come from punk rock. But I'm learning to turn that shout into a whisper in this film to get to an intimacy. You've spent the last five years in some state of self analysis. First the book, then the stage show, now the film. Why? Mission creep. I knew I had to write the book. The play was so I didn't have to tour the book in normal promotional activity, that I could actually have fun with it and play all the different characters in my life. I thought it was really good fun. Then I realized: Oh, there's parts of you that people don't know about. We don't go to U2 shows for belly laughs. But that's a part of who I am, which is the mischief as well as the melancholy. Then you end up doing a play with a lot of cameras in the way. Associated Press
Irish Independent
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Bono: ‘I believe in the integrity of the Americans and Russian people — they need facts'
'I can tell you I've slept on beaches close to here,' Bono says with a grin. 'I've woken up in the sun.' But that doesn't mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He's here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, which captures his one-man stage show. Before coming, Bono's daughter, the actor Eve Hewson, gave him some advice. 'She said: 'Just get over yourself and bring it,'' Bono said. 'What do I have to bring? Bring yourself and your gratitude that you're a musician and they're allowing you into a festival that celebrates actors and storytellers of a different kind. I said: 'OK, I'll try to bring it.'' Shifts in geopolitical tectonics were much on Bono's mind. He has spent much of his activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-Aids. US president Donald Trump's dismantling of USAid has reversed much of that. 'What's irrational is taking pleasure in the defacement of these institutions of mercy,' Bono said. 'Globalisation did very well for the world's poor,' he said. 'That and increased aid levels brought a billion people out of extreme poverty and halved childhood mortality — remarkable jumps for quality of life for human beings. 'But it's also fair to say certain communities really paid the price for that — here in Europe, in the United States. 'And I'm not sure those communities were credited enough for weathering storms that globalisation brought.' He added: 'Nationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. 'It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits that can be drummed up. 'This is me speaking about surrender, stories of surrender, at a time when the world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime.' The former punk also has views on Pope Leo XIV. 'The new pope, he does look like a pope,' he said. 'That's a good start. I just saw the other day his first piece and he was talking about stopping shouting, God might prefer whispers. 'I thought: 'Oh, this could be interesting.' I'm more of a shouter myself. 'I come from punk rock. But I'm learning to turn that shout into a whisper in this film to get to an intimacy.' He added : 'There's a minister from Albania who said something that really stuck with me. She said: 'If you have a chance to hope, it's a moral duty because most people don't. So, yes, I feel we'll figure our way out of this. This is a scary moment. 'I think acknowledging that we can lose all we've gained is sobering but it may be course-changing. I just believe in people enough. I believe in Americans enough. I'm an Irish person, I can't tell people how to vote. 'I can tell you that a million children dying because their life support systems were pulled out of the wall, with glee, that's not the America that I recognise or understand. 'You're on the front lines of Europe here. America came in and saved the day. Ironically, so did Russia. More people died from Russia fighting the Nazis than everybody else. 'Now they tread on their own sacred memories by treading on the Ukrainians who also died on the front lines. I think part of that is that history didn't acknowledge it. 'I believe there is integrity in the Russian people. They need to change their leader, in my view. I believe there is integrity in the Americans. They will figure it out. 'Who was it who said: If you give Americans the facts, they will eventually make the right choice. Right now, they're not getting the facts. Think of it: a 70pc decline in HIV-Aids, Republican-led, Democratically followed though. The greatest health intervention in the history of medicine to fight HIV-Aids has been thrown away.'
Nahar Net
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Nahar Net
Bono: 'The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime'
by Naharnet Newsdesk 16 May 2025, 15:32 Cannes is a short trip from Bono's seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a "delayed adolescence." "I can tell you I've slept on beaches close to here," Bono says with a grin. "I've woken up in the sun." But that doesn't mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He's here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary "Bono: Stories of Surrender," which captures his one-man stage show. Before coming, Bono's daughter, the actor Eve Hewson, gave him some advice. "She said: 'Just get over yourself and bring it,'" Bono said in an interview on a hotel off the Croisette. "What do I have to bring? Bring yourself and your gratitude that you're a musician and they're allowing you into a festival that celebrates actors and storytellers of a different kind. I said, 'OK, I'll try to bring it.'" Besides, Cannes, he notes, was founded amid World War II as an alternative to then-Mussolini controlled Venice Film Festival. It was, he says, "designed to find fascists." Shifts in geopolitical tectonics was much on Bono's mind. He has spent much of his activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-AIDS. U.S. President Donald Trump's dismantling of USAID has reversed much of that. "What's irrational is taking pleasure in the defacement of these institutions of mercy," Bono said. "Bono: Stories of Surrender," an Andrew Dominik-directed black-and-white film that begins streaming May 30, adapts the one-man stage show that, in turn, came from Bono's 2022 book, "Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story." In the film, Bono is self-effacing and reflective, sifting through the formative influence of his father, U2's skyrocketing to fame and considering how ego and social work might be related. He calls it "the tall tales of a short rock star." And as was the case on a recent sunny afternoon in Cannes, Bono makes a captivating raconteur. Remarks have been lightly edited for clarity. AP: You've long maintained that globalization lifts developing nations out of poverty. What do you make of the shift away from globalization by many countries recently? BONO: Well, that's right. Globalization did very well for the world's poor. That and increased aid levels brought a billion people out of extreme poverty and halved childhood mortality — remarkable jumps for quality of life for human beings. But it's also fair to say certain communities really paid the price for that — here in Europe, in the United States. And I'm not sure those communities were credited enough for weathering storms that globalization brought. So I understand how we got to this place, but it doesn't mean that it's the right place to be in. Nationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits that can be drummed up. This is me speaking about surrender, "Stories of Surrender," at a time when the world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime. At first I think it looks absurd, a bit ridiculous — now that has never stopped me in the past — but I think it's OK to look ridiculous for these ideas. Like surrender, nonviolence, peace. AP: Do you have any sense yet of Pope Leo XIV? BONO: The new pope, he does look like a pope. That's a good start. I just saw the other day his first piece and he was talking about stopping shouting, God might prefer whispers. I thought, "Oh, this could be interesting." I'm more of a shouter myself. I come from punk rock. But I'm learning to turn that shout into a whisper in this film to get to an intimacy. AP: The most moving parts of "Stories of Surrender" are when you talk about your dad, who died in 2001. How have you feelings about him evolved with time? BONO: Well, the accuracy of the put-down — "You are a baritone who thinks he's a tenor" — is so all encompassing. I was going to call the play "The Baritone Who Thinks He's a Tenor." He's on my mind because he's the reason I sing. It's a wound that will never close because after playing him on stage for all those nights — just by turning left or right — I always loved him but I started to really like him. He started to make me laugh. There was a gift, as well as the voice, that he left me. Would he forgive me for impersonating him in the Teatro di San Carlo, a sacred place for tenors, probably not. But here I am impersonating an actor, so. AP: You've spent the last five years in some state of self analysis. First the book, then the stage show, now the film. Why? BONO: Mission creep. I knew I had to write the book. The play was so I didn't have to tour the book in normal promotional activity, that I could actually have fun with it and play all the different characters in my life. I thought it was really good fun. Then I realized: Oh, there's parts of you that people don't know about. We don't go to U2 shows for belly laughs. But that's a part of who I am, which is the mischief as well as the melancholy. Then you end up doing a play with a lot of cameras in the way. Enter Andrew Dominik and he taught me something that I didn't really understand but my daughter does: The camera really knows when you're lying. So if want to tell this story, you better get ready to take your armor off. You're going to feel naked in front of the whole school, but that's what it takes. AP: Coming out the other side, did you gain any new perspective on yourself? BONO: Based on my behavior just in the past week, the answer to that question is probably: Must try harder. The pilgrim's lack of progress. I would say that I understand a little better where I came from and that where I end up depends on how I deal with that. I've been calling it the hall of mirrors, when you try to figure out who you are and who's behind the face. Then you just see all these faces staring back at you, and they're all true. The real star of this movie is my dad. I sort of like him better than I like myself because humor has become so important to me. It's not like everything needs to be a belly laugh, but there's a freedom. People like me, we can sing about freedom. It's much better to be it. AP: You earlier spoke about the rising threat of world war. As someone who's often sang for and worked for peace, do you still have hope? BONO: There's a minister from Albania who said something that really stuck with me. She said: If you have a chance to hope, it's a moral duty because most people don't. So, yes, I feel we'll figure our way out of this. This is a scary moment. I think acknowledging that we can lose all we've gained is sobering but it may be course-changing. I just believe in people enough. I believe in Americans enough. I'm an Irish person, I can't tell people how to vote. I can tell you that a million children dying because their life support systems were pulled out of the wall, with glee, that's not the America that I recognize or understand. You're on the front lines of Europe here. America came in and saved the day. Ironically, so did Russia. More people died from Russia fighting the Nazis than everybody else. Now they tread on their own sacred memories by treading on the Ukrainians who also died on the front lines. I think part of that is that history didn't acknowledge it. I believe there is integrity in the Russian people. They need to change their leader, in my view. I believe there is integrity in the Americans. They will figure it out. Who was it who said: If you give Americans the facts, they will eventually make the right choice. Right now, they're not getting the facts. Think of it: a 70% decline in HIV-AIDS, Republican-led, Democratically followed though. The greatest health intervention in the history of medicine to fight HIV-AIDS has been thrown away. It was nearly there. To a space traveler, it's like getting to Mars and going, "Nah, we'll go back." It's bewildering to me.
Toronto Sun
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Toronto Sun
Bono: 'The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime'
Published May 15, 2025 • 6 minute read This image released by Apple TV+ shows Bono, lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, in a scene from the documentary 'Bono: Stories of Surrender." Photo by Apple TV+ via AP / AP Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. CANNES, France — Cannes is a short trip from Bono's seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. He bought it with The Edge in 1993, and considers himself grateful to a coastline that, he says, gave him a 'delayed adolescence.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. 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Bring yourself and your gratitude that you're a musician and they're allowing you into a festival that celebrates actors and storytellers of a different kind. I said, 'OK, I'll try to bring it.'' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Besides, Cannes, he notes, was founded amid World War II as an alternative to then-Mussolini controlled Venice Film Festival. It was, he says, 'designed to find fascists.' Shifts in geopolitical tectonics was much on Bono's mind. He has spent much of his activist life fighting for aid to Africa and combating HIV-AIDS. U.S. President Donald Trump's dismantling of USAID has reversed much of that. 'What's irrational is taking pleasure in the defacement of these institutions of mercy,' Bono said. 'Bono: Stories of Surrender,' an Andrew Dominik-directed black-and-white film that begins streaming May 30, adapts the one-man stage show that, in turn, came from Bono's 2022 book, 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.' Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In the film, Bono is self-effacing and reflective, sifting through the formative influence of his father, U2's skyrocketing to fame and considering how ego and social work might be related. He calls it 'the tall tales of a short rock star.' And as was the case on a recent sunny afternoon in Cannes, Bono makes a captivating raconteur. Remarks have been lightly edited for clarity. AP: You've long maintained that globalization lifts developing nations out of poverty. What do you make of the shift away from globalization by many countries recently? BONO: Well, that's right. Globalization did very well for the world's poor. That and increased aid levels brought a billion people out of extreme poverty and halved childhood morality _ remarkable jumps for quality of life for human beings. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But it's also fair to say certain communities really paid the price for that — here in Europe, in the United States. And I'm not sure those communities were credited enough for weathering storms that globalization brought. So I understand how we got to this place, but it doesn't mean that it's the right place to be in. Nationalism is not what we need. We grew up in a very charged atmosphere in Ireland. It makes you suspicious of nationalism and those animal spirits that can be drummed up. This is me speaking about surrender, 'Stories of Surrender,' at a time when the world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime. At first I think it looks absurd, a bit ridiculous — now that has never stopped me in the past — but I think it's OK to look ridiculous for these ideas. Like surrender, nonviolence, peace. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. AP: Do you have any sense yet of Pope Leo XIV? BONO: The new pope, he does look like a pope. That's a good start. I just saw the other day his first piece and he was talking about stopping shouting, God might prefer whispers. I thought, 'Oh, this could be interesting.' I'm more of a shouter myself. I come from punk rock. But I'm learning to turn that shout into a whisper in this film to get to an intimacy. AP: The most moving parts of 'Stories of Surrender' are when you talk about your dad, who died in 2001. How have you feelings about him evolved with time? BONO: Well, the accuracy of the put-down — 'You are a baritone who thinks he's a tenor' — is so all encompassing. I was going to call the play 'The Baritone Who Thinks He's a Tenor.' He's on my mind because he's the reason I sing. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It's a wound that will never close because after playing him on stage for all those nights — just by turning left or right — I always loved him but I started to really like him. He started to make me laugh. There was a gift, as well as the voice, that he left me. Would he forgive me for impersonating him in the Teatro di San Carlo, a sacred place for tenors, probably not. But here I am impersonating an actor, so. AP: You've spent the last five years in some state of self analysis. First the book, then the stage show, now the film. Why? BONO: Mission creep. I knew I had to write the book. The play was so I didn't have to tour the book in normal promotional activity, that I could actually have fun with it and play all the different characters in my life. I thought it was really good fun. Then I realized: Oh, there's parts of you that people don't know about. We don't go to U2 shows for belly laughs. But that's a part of who I am, which is the mischief as well as the melancholy. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Then you end up doing a play with a lot of cameras in the way. Enter Andrew Dominik and he taught me something that I didn't really understand but my daughter does: The camera really knows when you're lying. So if want to tell this story, you better get ready to take your armor off. You're going to feel naked in front of the whole school, but that's what it takes. AP: Coming out the other side, did you gain any new perspective on yourself? BONO: Based on my behavior just in the past week, the answer to that question is probably: Must try harder. The pilgrim's lack of progress. I would say that I understand a little better where I came from and that where I end up depends on how I deal with that. I've been calling it the hall of mirrors, when you try to figure out who you are and who's behind the face. Then you just see all these faces staring back at you, and they're all true. The real star of this movie is my dad. I sort of like him better than I like myself because humor has become so important to me. It's not like everything needs to be a belly laugh, but there's a freedom. People like me, we can sing about freedom. It's much better to be it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. AP: You earlier spoke about the rising threat of world war. As someone who's often sang for and worked for peace, do you still have hope? BONO: There's a minister from Albania who said something that really stuck with me. She said: If you have a chance to hope, it's a moral duty because most people don't. So, yes, I feel we'll figure our way out of this. This is a scary moment. I think acknowledging that we can lose all we've gained is sobering but it may be course-changing. I just believe in people enough. I believe in Americans enough. I'm an Irish person, I can't tell people how to vote. I can tell you that a million children dying because their life support systems were pulled out of the wall, with glee, that's not the America that I recognize or understand. You're on the front lines of Europe here. America came in and saved the day. Ironically, so did Russia. More people died from Russia fighting the Nazis than everybody else. Now they tread on their own sacred memories by treading on the Ukrainians who also died on the front lines. I think part of that is that history didn't acknowledge it. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. I believe there is integrity in the Russian people. They need to change their leader, in my view. I believe there is integrity in the Americans. They will figure it out. Who was it who said: If you give Americans the facts, they will eventually make the right choice. Right now, they're not getting the facts. Think of it: a 70% decline in HIV-AIDS, Republican-led, Democratically followed though. The greatest health intervention in the history of medicine to fight HIV-AIDS has been thrown away. It was nearly there. To a space traveller, it's like getting to Mars and going, 'Nah, we'll go back.' It's bewildering to me.
