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Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Bono: Stories of Surrender' Is Now Streaming Online: How to Watch the Music Documentary for Free
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. There's a new documentary, which is based on his one-man stage show, that takes a closer look at the life and music of U2's Bono. Starting on Friday (May 30), Bono: Stories of Surrender drops on Apple TV+. It's available to stream for subscribers only. More from Billboard Speed Into Summer With Racing-Inspired Pieces From A$AP Rocky & Puma Capsule Collection Dallas Wings vs. Seattle Storm: How to Watch the WNBA Commissioner's Cup With Hulu + Live TV Face Masks, Eye Patches & More Beauty Essentials to Upgrade Your Skincare This Summer watch 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' on Apple TV+ A subscription to Apple TV+ can give you access to stream Bono: Stories of Surrender online. Apple TV+ is ad-free and goes for $9.99 per month. You can watch everything the streamer has to offer, including original titles, such as The Morning Show, For All Mankind, Severance, Long Way Home and Long Way Up, Servant, Silo, Invasion, Foundation, Lessons in Chemistry, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Masters of the Air and more. The service also includes music documentaries and programming, like 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, K-Pop Idols, Carpool Karaoke and others. Apple TV+ has access to live sports, including Friday Night Baseball. Not a subscriber? Sign up for a seven-day free trial to watch Bono: Stories of Surrender. Directed by Andrew Dominik, Bono: Stories of Surrender is a reimagining of Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…, the U2 frontman's one-man stage show. The documentary follows Bono's relationships with his family, friends, faith and career in music. It features never-before-seen footage of life on the road with U2, as well as performances of U2 songs. Meanwhile, if you're an Apple Vision Pro owner, then you can watch the film in an immersive experience with Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive). You can watch Bono: Stories of Surrender on Apple TV+ starting on Friday, May 20. You can watch for free with a seven-day free trial. In the meantime, watch the trailer below. watch 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' on Apple TV+ Want more? For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best Xbox deals, studio headphones and Nintendo Switch accessories.
Irish Daily Mirror
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Irish Daily Mirror
'Bono wrong to say activism has gotten complex especially when it comes to Gaza'
I can't believe the news today. The opening line a young Bono wrote in the 1980s to U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. The words were inspired back then by the indiscriminate shooting of civilians in Derry by heavily armed troops. He sang them again last week as U2 collected a lifetime Ivor Novello award Bono also used the occasion to belatedly raise his voice on the 600 days of slaughter in Gaza that have followed the October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas. He declared: "Hamas release the hostages, stop the war. Israel be released from Benjamin Netanyahu." It was a somewhat muted take, coming as it did during the dire hours in which multiple agencies, world leaders and activists were warning that thousands of Gazan children were about to die from forced starvation. Not even so much as a "tonight thank God it's them instead of you." But then as Bono would go on to explain to us later that week, when speaking to RTE, these things are "complex." The frontman also lamented the "competitive empathy" of those who think "my emergency is more important than your emergency." It wasn't clear which emergency was competing with the plight of Gaza's children that day. Israel's vengeful assault would equate to 4,000 Bloody Sundays committed against civilians in Ireland for 600 days running. It would be comparable to the complete ethnic cleansing of northern Catholics by forcibly removing them over the border. And akin to the slaughter during the Troubles of hundreds of aid workers, paramedics and journalists. As atrocity goes, that's pretty competitive. Bono also defended the medal of honour he accepted from Joe Biden and America, the country that has bankrolled all that horror. "I kind of get the realpolitik of the situation that Joe Biden found himself in... I took that medal on behalf of all those people who don't get medals: the activists, the people who are getting killed now in Gaza ... it's deeply ironic." Indeed it is. Almost as ironic as this column wanting to hear more from Bono after years wishing he would just shut up. Wanting to hear him now use his pulpit in the US to forcefully call out the slaughter in Gaza - purely on its own merits. To sing: "I can't believe the news today" and sing it just for seven-year-old Verd al-Sheikh Khalil who survived this week's Bloody Sunday on the strip – or was it the early hours of another Bloody Monday – after an Israeli shell was fired at the Fahmi al-Jarjawi School where she was sheltering. Her five siblings and her mother all died. Verd can be seen in a video emerging bewildered from the rubble and the flames of another day's unforgettable fire. It would be welcome too to hear Bono sing…"I can't close my eyes and make it go away"… and dedicate it only to Doctor Alaa al Najjar. The lifeless bodies of nine of her 10 children were plucked from the rubble of her home as she worked at the Nasser Medical Complex, in Khan Younis tending the other dying and maimed. Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra - aged from just a few months to 12 years old. In Benjamin Netanyahu's twisted world they would be classed "on the wrong side of humanity" like the world leaders he described that way for daring to challenge this genocidal campaign. To even utter the words "Free Palestine" – as an honourable roll call of Irish artists have – is "the new Heil Hitler" the blue-rinsed butcher of Gaza absurdly declared. It is in these dark hours that Bono told us he has decided to take a backwards step from his activism, because it is hard to keep up with the complexities of it all as a "single issue" guy. In that he is wrong. It's not hard. It's as simple as it ever was. You ignore the realpolitik. And remember what it feels like when you can't close your eyes and make it go away.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bono Weighs in on Trump-Bruce Springsteen Drama: 'There's Only One Boss in America'
Bono is weighing in on the Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump drama, as well as responding to the president's call for a 'major investigation' into Bono's support for Kamala Harris. The U2 frontman recently appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where the host asked him, 'Whose side are you on, Trump or Bruce Springsteen?' More from The Hollywood Reporter Sean "Diddy" Combs' Assistant of 8 Years Accuses Him of Multiple Sexual Assaults During Testimony Sean "Diddy" Combs' Ex-Assistant Testifies He Sexually Assaulted Her and Used Violence to Get His Way John Fogerty Is Releasing "John's Versions" of Creedence Clearwater Revival Classics After letting out a laugh, Bono responded, 'I think there's only one Boss in America,' referring to Springsteen's nickname, evoking loud applause from the audience. The Trump-Springsteen drama started when the rock star slammed the Trump administration during a concert in the U.K., telling the audience that the U.S. is 'currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.' While the president vaguely threatened him in response, Springsteen has since doubled down on his claims at another concert. Jimmy Kimmel later brought up Trump's rant that he posted on his social media platform Truth Social earlier this month, calling for an investigation into major recording acts and entertainment notables — including Bono, Springsteen, Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey — who showed their support for Harris during her presidential campaign. 'I don't want to cut in on your action because I know the president at 1 a.m., or 1:30, or whatever that was, is usually thinking about you,' Bono quipped, referencing Kimmel and Trump's years-long feud. 'But two points I'll make,' the Grammy-winning musician continued. 'One, to be the company of Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, and Oprah — I'll play tambourine in that band. And two, U2 and I have never paid or played a show to support any candidate from any party. It has never happened.' He later joked that Trump's Truth Social platform 'seems to be pretty antisocial' and is 'not very true a lot of the time.' Bono also offered Kimmel his thoughts on why he thinks he was among the artists Trump has targeted. He said it 'might be the fact that I co-founded the One Campaign, which is, by design, bipartisan.' According to its website, the nonprofit advocates for economic and health opportunities in Africa. 'We've got a lot of very religious Catholics, Evangelicals, Conservatives who are very, very, very angry with the person that they voted into office having demolished instruments of mercy and compassion like USAID [United States Agency for International Development] or PEPFAR [United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief], which can save 26 million lives of people who have AIDS around the world,' the 'With Or Without You' singer added. 'That's the America that we love. That's the America that we all want to be part of. And they are not happy, and there will be trouble.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter Most Anticipated Concert Tours of 2025: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar & SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and More Hollywood's Most Notable Deaths of 2025 Hollywood's Highest-Profile Harris Endorsements: Taylor Swift, George Clooney, Bruce Springsteen and More
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Bono Schools Joe Rogan on ‘Evil' Elon Musk Unleashed on the World
U2 frontman Bono lectured podcaster Joe Rogan about the 'evils' of his buddy Elon Musk during a new podcast episode. It began with Bono, who has a long history of involvement with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), citing a study that estimates the number of global deaths caused by Musk's cuts at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at more than 300,000. He explained Friday that food is currently 'rotting' in boats and warehouses because Musk fired the people responsible for distributing it. 'That's not America, is it?' Bono asked Rogan. Bono told Rogan that he 'gets the instinct' to shrink 'big government'—but that doing so has consequences. 'To choose which child to pull off the IVs—it just seems to me like, I don't know if 'evil' is too strong a word, but what we know about pure evil is, it rejoices in the deaths, in the squandering of human life, particularly children,' Bono said as Rogan nodded along. 'It actually rejoices in it, and whether it's incompetence, whether it's unintended consequences, it's not too late.' Bono revealed that he's brought his case on this issue directly to Secretary of State—and acting administration of USAID—Marco Rubio, who is 'convinced people aren't dying' despite all evidence to the contrary. 'I just want to remind Americans of the size of their country, and I'm not talking about the geography,' Bono said, as Rogan chimed in with, 'The impact.' 'The size of the idea, it's just an extraordinary thing,' Bono continued. 'It's an idea big enough to fit the whole world, and when it becomes an island rather than a continent... when it shrinks, America seems to stop being America.' During the conversation, Rogan acknowledged the negative impact of cuts to USAID while still alleging the agency had misspent money. 'So there's a lot of fraud, a lot of money-laundering,' Rogan said, 'But also, we help the world and when you're talking about making wells for people in the Congo to get fresh water, when you're talking about food and medicine to places that don't have access, no way that should have been cut out. And that should have been clear before they make these radical cuts.' Instead, Rogan said Musk should have given the agencies time to 'prepare' and 'build new infrastructure' so that this type of needless suffering could be avoided. 'The ironic thing is, even though Elon Musk has proposed all these things and the DOGE committee has proposed all these things, they've made no cuts in terms of the budget,' Rogan then admitted. 'They've cut nothing.' A Financial Times report earlier this month found that DOGE has fallen far short of its initial goal to cut $2 trillion in federal spending, saving the federal government even less than the $170 billion in savings DOGE has publicly claimed.
Forbes
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender' Is Now Streaming – How To Watch U2 Singer's Documentary
Bono in "Bono: Stories of Surrender." Apple TV+ Bono: Stories of Surrender — a documentary featuring U2 frontman Bono — is new on streaming. Directed by Andrew Dominik, Bono: Stories of Surrender held its world premiere on May 16 at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the South of France. The official summary for the documentary reads, 'Bono: Stories of Surrender is a vivid reimagining of Bono's critically acclaimed one-man stage show, Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief… As he pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends and faith that have challenged and sustained him, he also reveals personal stories about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rock star. 'Along with never-before-seen, exclusive footage from the tour, the film features Bono performing many of the iconic U2 songs that have shaped his life and legacy.' Bono: Stories of Surrender is now streaming exclusively on Apple TV+. Viewers must subscribe to the streaming platform to watch the documentary. Apple TV+ offers ad-free programming, which costs $9.99 per month after a seven-day free trial. Bono: Stories of Surrender to date has received a 76% 'fresh' rating from Rotten Tomatoes critics based on 29 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus and Popcornmeter score is still pending. Among the top critics on RT who give the documentary a 'fresh' rating is Owen Gleiberman of Variety, who writes,' Watching [Stories of Surrender], you come away knowing a great deal about Bono, feeling like you've touched his soul a bit, and that's mostly a captivating journey. But you're never convinced that he's on a mission larger than the song of himself.' Steve Pond of The Wrap also gives Bono: Stories of Surrender a 'fresh' rating on RT, writing, 'It's bombastic, extravagant and melodramatic at times – but I don't use those words as pejoratives, because in the hands of Bono and Dominik, it's also pretty glorious.' Bono: Stories of Surrender also earned a 'fresh' review from Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian, who writes on RT, 'It's a confident, often engaging mix of music and no-frills theatrical performance, with Bono often coming across like some forgotten character that Samuel Beckett created but then suppressed due to undue levels of rock'n'roll pizzazz.' Kyle Smith is one of the top critics on RT who gives Bono: Stories of Surrender a 'rotten' review, writing on RT, 'If Bono is melodramatic, Mr. Dominik is an enabler.' Tim Robey of the Daily Telegraph (UK) also gives the documentary a 'rotten' review, noting, 'Bono may be his own worst enemy in the one-man show Stories of Surrender, but only just. His second worst is Blonde director Andrew Dominik, who has turned it into a more excruciating film than you might even have surmised.' John Nugent of Empire Magazine also slammed Bono: Stories of Surrender, writing in his 'rotten' review on RT, 'Strictly-for-fans-only. Bono is a charismatic chronicler of his own life, but the self-conscious storytelling concept is a harder thing to stomach for non-enthusiasts.' Bono: Stories of Surrender, featuring U2 singer Bono — whose real name is Paul David Hewson — is streaming exclusively on Apple TV+.
