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An extraordinary book by an artist always ready to fight, who had to realize that he could only get the most out of himself if he learned to make peace with himself.
Bono organized his life around forty U2 songs, but left it a mess. His stories are tense and fragmented, honest and instructive.
He grew up in Dublin's Northside, the son of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother - just at the time when the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland flared up. He lost his mother at the age of fourteen, and because of her absence, he longed for his own family from a young age. In his teenage years, he felt average, but in the end he put his life on the line to prove that no one is average. His creativity is chaotic and inexhaustible... in the studio, on stage, at a demonstration or in the corridors of the United States Congress, but it doesn't subside even in the corner pub.
He writes about his anger management difficulties, which further color his lines about love and non-violence, and he does not hide that his ego is "much bigger than his belief in himself".
U2 became one of the most famous rock groups in the world in four decades from a band of teenagers who wanted to become famous, and Bono grew from a part-time activist to an indispensable factor fighting for the cancellation of the debts of poor countries, who tried to persuade governments - especially the presidents of the United States - to act more decisively on the against AIDS raging all over the world. The reader can be present with Bono in Washington at the birth of the presidential emergency plan, which was the most far-reaching health action in modern history to curb a specific disease. He is a co-founder of the ONE movement, whose volunteers he calls "factivists" and considers their sister organization (RED) a "gateway drug" to human rights activism.
Fans can also learn why Bono says U2 stayed together despite decades of personal differences and creative disputes, and help the author decipher the lyrics to the band's most popular and important songs.
We can also look into Bono's innermost struggles: his recurring theme is missed opportunities. He describes his own faith as a "still and gentle voice" in the noise that never quiets down, which he has managed to hear most clearly in his marriage, music and the fight against poverty.
But Surrender is above all a confession of love, to his wife Ali, whom he asked out for the first time the same week U2 held their first rehearsal. Alison Stewart is the defining character of all the dramatic situations in the book. This is also the case in the latest act of their lives, which is just beginning for the couple, in which so far there are more questions than answers about why it is worth fighting and why they should make up.
Bono, born Paul David Hewson, has been fronting U2 to packed stadiums for four decades. The band has sold 170 million records, won 22 Grammy Awards and many other accolades, including the Freedom of the City of Dublin and Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience awards. He lives in Dublin with his wife Ali and four children. Surrender is his first book.