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Time Out
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
‘Stories of Surrender': 8 Things We Learned About Bono From His New Documentary
World, meet Bono. In Bono: Stories of Surrender, a new doc directed by Andrew Dominik (best-known for two excellent films about Nick Cave), the U2 singer born Paul Hewson bares his soul in front of an intimate audience, in a lively stage show based around his memoir. The candour is punctuated with stripped back versions of his band's mega-hits. He's backed by a handful of young, mostly classical musicians; his U2 bandmates, as well as his parents and his wife, are all represented simply by chairs. The whole thing is captured in stunning, cinematic black and white. Here are eight things we've learned about a man usually seen leaping about a giant, effects-heavy stadium stage in front of thousands. 1. His dad was dismissive of his son's talents The film leans heavily with humour (and pathos) into the difficult relationship the singer had with his father, Bob, who begrudged his son having the musical career he'd wanted for himself. Cue a series of putdowns ('You're a baritone who thinks he's a tenor!') and only a begrudging acknowledgement when Bono plays him Pride (In the Name of Love) for the very first time. Even when Pavarotti called personally asking for a song from Bono, Bob didn't believe it. 'I craved my father's attention,' Bono admits. 2. He met his future wife Ali and joined U2 in the same week It turns out The Edge had his eye on Ali first, but Bono soon put a stop to that. Ali and Bono married at 21 and have been together ever since – as have the band. As Bono says, all the important adults in his life he has known since he was a teenager. To say they are tight is an understatement. 3. He once nearly died at Christmas It turns out a rock 'n' roll lifestyle can catch up with you. During the festive season, Bono collapsed at home with his 'lifeline' (aorta) about to burst in 2016. He was wheeled off to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York for emergency treatment. He describes in vivid detail staring up at the ceiling as the surgeons worked frantically to save him. 4. Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen once hid from Pavarotti in a cupboard Originally a punk outfit, Bono had a hard time convincing his bandmates to get excited about the world's greatest tenor visiting them for a major collaboration. When the great man brought a film crew with him, only Bono and Edge were there to greet him. 5. Bono lost his mum at 14, and his father never spoke of her again With heartbreaking honesty (and lashings of Irish charm), Bono recounts the trauma of losing his mother from an aneurysm on the same day they buried his grandfather. His father refused to talk about it – or her – ever again, and Bono never visited her grave. 6. Bono met up with his dad once a week at a bar in Dublin and they barely spoke to each other 'Anything strange or startling?' is all Bob had to say to his young son as they supped their pints in silence. Bob's dying words were also suitably opaque ('Fuck off!'). In his younger years, Bob liked to sing and conduct classical music at home with his wife's knitting needles. Punk was not his thing. 7. Bono is fine with being seen as a hypocrite when it comes to money He admits he has his faults. He also explains why he doesn't accept that people should be starving, or that countries in Africa should still be paying interest on debt to the big banks of the world from dodgy loans from the Cold War. He's still a man of the people, then, who can get a good table at a fancy restaurant. 8. U2 came up with their first big hit with two strings and two chords A massive punk fan, Bono always believed in the immediacy and directness of music. In an early rehearsal one day, he grabbed Edge's Gibson Explorer and began playing what he describes as the 'sound of an electric drill on the brain'. When the band joined in, the classic I Will Follow was born. And despite wanting to quit after one album, they went on to become the biggest band in the world.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Take the World's Hardest U2 Quiz
It's not hard to spot the hardcore fans at U2 shows. They're the ones wearing vintage Lovetown Tour T-shirts who scream louder for 'Acrobat' than 'Pride (In the Name of Love),' call out guitar tech Dallas Schoo by name when he brings the Edge a new instrument, and leap into the air on the rare occasions when Bono adds his 'shine like stars' coda to the final verse of 'With or Without You.' (If you have any idea what that even means, you're one of the people we're talking about here.) But U2 are a stadium band, and the vast majority of their audience largely just know the hits. A smaller subset owned The Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby on cassette or CD back in the day, and have vague memories of the deeper cuts. To figure out where you fall on the spectrum of U2 fans, check out this quiz. 0 to 30 percent correct: Don't be discouraged. Just head to your favorite streaming service, load up the U2 catalog, and spend the next few hours soaking it all in. To start off, we'd recommend War, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby, Pop, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and No Line on the Horizon. Once you're done, check out the book U2 at the End of the World, by Bill Flanagan, and the group's own official oral history, U2 by U2. That's a lot of music and history to absorb, but this is a band on the verge of celebrating its 50th anniversary. More from Rolling Stone A Matthew Perry Shout-Out, an Andrea Bocelli Feature, and (Maybe Not) a Ye Track: Everything We Know About Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter VI' Take the World's Hardest Taylor Swift Quiz The World's Hardest Billy Joel Quiz 31 to 60 percent correct: Nice job. You are clearly someone who has spent some time with the catalog. If you wish to learn more, Rolling Stone has been covering U2 since the very beginning. The late James Henke called them 'the next big thing' in a pivotal 1981 article before most people in America knew they even existed. Four years later, we called them the 'Band of the 80s' when the decade was just halfway over. (It's also one of the worst cover photos we've ever run. For some reason, they're buried in shadows in front of a haunted staircase.) Pore through all of these articles and you're likely to emerge an expert. 61 to 100 percent correct: Congrats! You're a true U2 aficionado. You probably know every word to 'Womanfish' and 'Pete the Chop,' watched the original Year in Pop ABC broadcast in 1997, and even the raw Rattle and Hum footage that leaked out decades back. There's not much more we can teach you at this point. But if you're looking for great bootlegs, we recommend May 6, 1983, in Boston; Jan. 10, 1990, in Rotterdam, Netherlands; June 11, 1992, in Stockholm; and May 6, 2001, in Pittsburgh. Hopefully they'll start their own official Bootleg Series. But then again, you surely have all of this stuff anyway. Looking for more Rolling Stone ? Try these: The World's Hardest Taylor Swift QuizThe World's Hardest The Office QuizThe World's Hardest Saturday Night Live QuizThe World's Hardest Billy Joel QuizThe World's Hardest Bob Dylan Quiz The World's Hardest Bruce Springsteen Quiz Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
