I love this book so much. He tells wonderful stories. And he goes from childhood to present. He is a great Irish storyteller.
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@frostflow Жыл бұрын
This man deserves his flowers while he’s still alive. One of the great poets of our time. Huge inspiration ❤ I really hope one day I get to meet him.
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@TheEnnisfan2 жыл бұрын
Bono's a great wordsmith. A true poet. I'm sure the memoir is brilliant as is his songwriting, which I feel like he doesn't get enough credit for. Can't wait till they hit the road again. Hoping for an Achtung Baby Anniversary tour.
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
That’s it.
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
I'm a huge U2 fan but I worry that it may get a little too wordy if you know what I mean? His mind works on a different level than most peoples I think and he's sometimes hard to follow once you get him going. I was just watching his commencement search at PENN from years ago and he lost me on more than one occasion. Probably says more about me and my lousy attention span but I think it's a valid concern when it comes to this book. I'll definitely be reading it though. 👍
@dennismullen97002 жыл бұрын
Rumor has it they are going to be on tour in 2023 as they asked their crew to make themselves available. Unsure if it will be in stadiums or arenas. (Yes I know the plural of stadium is stadia)
@TheEnnisfan2 жыл бұрын
@@dennismullen9700 That'd be awesome. BTW, are you Larry's brother? 😂
@TheEnnisfan2 жыл бұрын
@@ScottH. I agree to a certain extent. However, it IS a book and you can essentially get away with being, as you put it, wordy. But to your point, he does have a tendency to ramble a bit. 😉
@bratsbaby2 жыл бұрын
I picked Surrender yesterday, I can’t wait to read it. I’ve been a fan since the Boy album and was lucky enough to see U2 live in the 80’s
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@thanksamill2 жыл бұрын
Just finished the audible version. It was mesmerising.
@robjohnston_photo2 жыл бұрын
I haven't finished it yet, but it is one of the best produced audiobooks I have listened to.
@Chaosnegi122 жыл бұрын
This audiobook is mesmerizing. How he focus and organizing this book is great, based on the songs. Love his focus on specific words. Truly a poet.
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@kurkspetterson35572 жыл бұрын
awesome Bono and U2 for ever and ever
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@tiredofit47612 жыл бұрын
I have loved U2 since 1982. He is so stoic and honest. So much respect.
@frostflow Жыл бұрын
@Travel Crawl sounds like jealousy to me. go sort your own money out, go create your own property & Sit down
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@bernardtorres20432 жыл бұрын
Spot on friendship is the key!
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
Maybe the greatest songwriter of all time. The incredible catalog of songs this man has written is remarkable. Best band ever in my opinion. 🤟
@newms692 жыл бұрын
I don't think so
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
@@newms69 you don't have to. 👍🏻
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
@@SuperBingo96all great writers but if you look at how big U2s catalogue is and then look at the lyrics and consider one man, for the most part, wrote all those amazing songs, its remarkable.
@christianman732 жыл бұрын
Bono is a great songwriter, but as far as I know, from their songwriting credits that I've seen, most of U2's songs are actually written as collaborations between two or more members of the band. Bono doesn't usually write the band's songs alone, does he? Has he written *any* of their songs alone, without at least one other band member involved in the songwriting process?
@belmokademnabil2 жыл бұрын
@@newms69 pink Floyd Time lyric 💪
@kenlewis22532 жыл бұрын
I hear the Audible version is read by Bono and has original music in it. I’m in!
@thanksamill2 жыл бұрын
More than just music to hear in it to pull you in. You won't be disappointed.
@UnderABloodRedSkyU22 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting all of it!!
@rupowell28212 жыл бұрын
A great great, honest and decent man. One of Irelands greatest. God bless ya man.
@gerardodwyer59082 жыл бұрын
Not Ireland. One of Dublin's greatest.
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
Please continue to be a band as you are.
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@Muhdah19722 жыл бұрын
Bono is a wonderful character. I love to listen to him talk 💙
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@dougdoug92682 жыл бұрын
biggest band on earth 2023 and beyond
@brandonmoore74972 жыл бұрын
Bono is my personal favorite icon congrats to your new book Surrender
@rodanny19612 жыл бұрын
Bono is the man.
@johnnyazer5779 Жыл бұрын
Bonos words are like the poets of ages past, lyrics paint a good or a bleak picture......the rhythm section is super tight, and the Edges delay makes me think of a Christmas light dislay with thousands of colored lights blinking.
@jeffprokes89902 жыл бұрын
A compelling life. A fascinating read I presume.. 🤘🤘❤️
@nonni1392 жыл бұрын
I liked U2 since 1982, its really sad when people are getting older 😭, sometimes you really would like to have the ability to stop the time.
@edmundcoyle3642 жыл бұрын
1979.
@ronnycee76492 жыл бұрын
A caring, fantastic individual-love what he says about Ali and esp America.
@seanirish61732 жыл бұрын
Bought the book going to listen too it tommorry 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍👍👍
@laure54522 жыл бұрын
Hope to have mine tomorrow 💛🖤💛
@margaretlee.19572 жыл бұрын
Awesome interview with George
@ConcertDude2 жыл бұрын
Such a great story teller! ✌😎
@bielgraul13092 жыл бұрын
Extremamente simpático ❤❤ sempre
@StaticTeaz Жыл бұрын
I appreciate how Bono actually answers the questions. Many politicians don't.
@TimDurkan2 жыл бұрын
nice work, george…great interview with a great man
@callagibson89342 жыл бұрын
😊 Bono is great! Great writer and poet, amazing band ectra !
@brightlights232 жыл бұрын
hot tip - he narrates the audibook and there's music in it too.
@juzzyjj63872 жыл бұрын
I feel like U2. have one more banger in them... somewhere in the heartbeat of Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree.....this is what separated them from the rest
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
Acthung baby belongs in that group. 👍🏻
@pratikmittal71132 жыл бұрын
I have been hoping for 20 yrs since Pop. Only if they ditch the obsession for making hits for top 40 and adult contemporary radio that has simplified their sound and made their lyrics clichés. Go back to Lanois and Eno for those layered soundscapes! Little Things That Give You Away is their most recent closest thing to how they were.
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
@@pratikmittal7113 they've made a lot of really great music since Pop. Pop was kind of a dud anyways.
@prmittal2 жыл бұрын
@@ScottH. Most creatives peak is 25-45. So its fine, but their 2000s work is a notch below all of their other stuff. Pop is arguably viewed as a beautiful chaotic mess of an album. I would still argue its better than their best of post ALTYCLB era.
@ScottH.2 жыл бұрын
@@SuperBingo96 he wrote the whole darn album at that age which is even more astonishing! That album still gives me goosebumps. Love it.
@laurene.breaux73662 жыл бұрын
♥️BONO!!!
@jazminratzlaff5357 Жыл бұрын
Can’t wait for his new book, love U2 and Bono! So handsome and charming as always. What a poet! ♥️❤️👑💎⚜️✨🤩🌟🫶🏻👏🏻 🥵 🤤 😍🥰😘
@tenderbeat4780 Жыл бұрын
Swedish indieband TenderBeat growed up with U2. We saw them 1982 in Stockholm at Concert hall. Amazing! Good book! 😍
@simonecardoso7782 жыл бұрын
Amo demais ele ❤️❤️
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@ClareLorraine12 жыл бұрын
Book just arrived and I look forward to not being able to do anything else until I’ve read it through!!
@ultraviolet69892 жыл бұрын
When Bono said desperation, who else completed his answer by saying "Desperation is a tender trap" ? U2 fans will know...
@frostflow Жыл бұрын
😂 yup!
@donquixotedelamancha582 жыл бұрын
I'll read it!
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
Ding Dong. Seriously the best. If you ever have a midnight epiphany about your music most likely eze is given you way too much oxygen. Happy places are family but business on your music.
@neilpowell52852 жыл бұрын
I love Bono, he's getting old.
@saxbythefire2 жыл бұрын
As are we all
@anomalees2 жыл бұрын
i'm sure Bono knows it. it's part of the thread of mortality. i just wish he focused more on the songs not activism.
@anomalees Жыл бұрын
@SAYWHAT Bono has lost touch with the music + the fan connection. he's replaced it with global activism + money.
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
Darling, u2 is museum quality.
@paolo-n20002 жыл бұрын
ummmm....used to be....those days are long gone sadly....
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
ie. Thank you. Admitting in between. California there is no end to love. Can’t dismiss a person you have never met. Yet, interconnected is key. It’s your mature to love many people. ❤
@GoodMrDawes2 жыл бұрын
Right on Bono. America is an amazing Country
@mollym7378 Жыл бұрын
"I believe in this country. There's reasons to believe in this country...America has got an amazing gift...The world needs America to succeed." ♥️
@GoodMrDawes Жыл бұрын
@@mollym7378 Right On. And I am Australian
@joshuarosell4161 Жыл бұрын
Paul. Thankful for you. Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too. Perhaps we are just more alive. Yet as we discover more joy, we can face suffering in a way that ennobles rather than embitters. We have hardship without becoming hard. We have heartbreaks without being broken.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
@alisonbermingham86742 жыл бұрын
many Irish people used to dislike Bono, or simply think he was an idiot,, but now they like him a lot and respect him.
@salubrious2 жыл бұрын
There's still a significant cohort back home who can't stand him. Personally, I think he's one of our greatest ambassadors, ever.
@gasaholic472 жыл бұрын
Where does all that dislike come from?
@alisonbermingham86742 жыл бұрын
@@gasaholic47 There is/well used to be, sort of attitude among Irish people about Bono like 'who does he think he is, prancing around like an idiot, talking crap'. Irish people are/were weird that way sometimes. But it's clear he was/does not talk crap. They tend to / or used to sort of bring people down who were on a pedastal particularly Bono as he was sort of seen as an idiot who was driving on the superstar wagon, and people didn't even think his music was worthy of greatness. But as I said, not all Irish of course. But i think even Bono has changed and has become more 'relatable and normal' in past years. He was also sort of thought as mainstream musically, nothing special.
@gasaholic472 жыл бұрын
@@alisonbermingham8674 Sounds a lot like flat out jealousy to me. Local boy(s) who made good, draws the ire of those left behind for no other reason than they can.
@alisonbermingham86742 жыл бұрын
@@gasaholic47 well that would be the obvious thinking yes, but some people thought genuinely he was an idiot, a lot of people. It's not like there is not loads of Irish people successful, so not sure it was just jealousy.
@armandobenner16652 жыл бұрын
A true balladeer !!!!
@EdgarTheEagle2 жыл бұрын
What a great man!!!
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
Ok. We just need to chill out. Right now. The best band in the world because you sing it in your songs. You need to stop procrastinating. We all know your the best of the best. 🌞
@hailmaryrecordings82552 жыл бұрын
Man … so-many of us have aged a decade during the pandemic. I can’t believe how frail he looks. ☮️
@SuperJohnyyy2 жыл бұрын
He looks like he's age an extra 10 years , seeing it in a lot of people,. Also lots of sudden deaths , wonder what's causing all this ?
@hailmaryrecordings82552 жыл бұрын
@@SuperJohnyyy That garbage vaccine every low-IQ fear-baby lined-up for.
@KleWdSide Жыл бұрын
I do love those shades. Row After Midnight... Oliver Peoples.
@jacksonmiked2 жыл бұрын
Not hiding the stacked heels anymore.
@random220262 жыл бұрын
Good questions, George! Keep those fists a-flyin'! 👊👊✊✊
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
I love you for that. Always Red
@DML5752 жыл бұрын
What about his presence at Davos? hmm.
@michaelgriffiths8068 Жыл бұрын
He creates a lot more change from inside the curtain, befriending the enemy, than from outside the barricade, being shut out with everyone else. As simple as that.
@DML575 Жыл бұрын
@@michaelgriffiths8068 Excellent point, let's hope it's true
@michaelgriffiths8068 Жыл бұрын
@SAYWHAT - do some research on the amount of debt forgiveness for Africa (and how many more children have access to anti-malaria drugs and how many mothers now have access to anti retro-viral HIV drugs, and consequently how many lives have been saved), not to mention how many more children are going to school and have food in their belly…all thanks to Bono’s life-long campaigning to the leaders of the G-7.
@douglasguerrafelipe55082 жыл бұрын
Brasil 😊
@davidatkinson-lifematters48262 жыл бұрын
Bought into his own 'Bono' myth alright. Messiah complex, perhaps? And I'm a fan.
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
I asked for nothing. You gave me Santa Barbara.
@thelaurels132 жыл бұрын
Bono is so great to listen to. I’ve just ordered his book and can’t wait to read it.
@carolinepercy1216 Жыл бұрын
✌\m/💝
@hilaryminias96032 жыл бұрын
Ok. That’s it. Never underestimate u2 talent, nothing has changed you just kept getting better. I love your wife. We may love each other.
@bielgraul13092 жыл бұрын
You prince 🤴
@DarioSanchez-tl1gi6 ай бұрын
Someone else wrote it for him
@GoodMrDawes2 жыл бұрын
Lucky Man
@oreopagus2476 Жыл бұрын
Check out the "U2 Quiz: For those who have ears to hear" (Oct. 1, 2009) by Sol O. Mann 8-)
@robcousins2312 жыл бұрын
If people listened and took to hear what he says about America, I believe the rancour so many Americans have for each other would disappear. Please listen America! You're too important to allow petty divisions to tear you apart!
@paolo-n20002 жыл бұрын
Yaaawwwnnn!!!! Thanks for the tip ROB!!!
@paolo-n20002 жыл бұрын
@@andred3299 - No doubt Bono turned into a pitchman for the davos crowd. He's a champagne socialist...if only the young Bono of the first 4 U2 albums could see what a sell out he became...sad...
@paolo-n20002 жыл бұрын
@@andred3299 - interesting that your comment has been scrubbed....so much for free speech...
@tcnance1317 Жыл бұрын
💚
@dhill1113 Жыл бұрын
Some people are clearly desperate to make sure the world see's Michael as nothing but a drug addict lately. Weird Bono's hating on and changing his story around Michael and Paula. Has-beens Duran Duran are also re-released that horrible "Michael you have a lot to answer for" song was that was released only a month prior to his death and - as Duran said in interviews at the time - was bizarrely attacking Michael for Paula leaving her husband. For some reason they now say it was a love letter 🙄 and about his drug use. Sorry but many of us remember and have the articles saying differently!
@dougphillips7194 Жыл бұрын
Pay attention young and talented musicians !!
@u2freak19742 жыл бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤
@esperago2 жыл бұрын
Ugh... dinosaur MSM with the pretend affection, hollow laughs and hokey, safe and impersonal questions that fall flat. Gross.
@ChrisBmufc2 жыл бұрын
Bono and the IRA entry to the book was very embarrassing. People from Dublin and Ireland here absolutely laughing at his bullshite
@emmettohara38152 жыл бұрын
In the book he seemed to say 28 people were killed on Bloody Sunday, surely he couldn't have made such a glaring mistake?
@ChrisBmufc Жыл бұрын
@@emmettohara3815 Ah Emmett I think you know exactly what I’m in about now. Don’t be acting the plonker
@emmettohara3815 Жыл бұрын
@@ChrisBmufc I think u may have misunderstood. In the book, in a passage about Bloody Sunday, he seemed to say 28 people were killed. How has this offended you?
@ChrisBmufc Жыл бұрын
@@emmettohara3815 oh it hasn’t but his passage about the IRA contemplating killing him is off the radar bullshite.
@emmettohara3815 Жыл бұрын
@@ChrisBmufc I haven't got to that part yet
@acemacgruber65932 жыл бұрын
I’m worth 700 million. Would you like to donate to a charity?
@chrisknowlton9460 Жыл бұрын
I'd rather listen to the young idealist Bono from the early 80s rather than the old tired boring spoiled Bono of now. He had a lot more to say back then rather than the fake book tour talk of 2022. And George Step-on-all of us made this interview even more painful to listen to. I need to get my Bono goggles to block out the drivel. 😎
@paolo-n20002 жыл бұрын
I'm sure there's a very, very long chapter on "late night benders"....Bono looking super haggard...
@AnnalisaLeoni-i3e4 ай бұрын
Very lovely. 😮 640
@kelfreitas26042 жыл бұрын
😎☘
@DarioSanchez-tl1gi6 ай бұрын
Book
@DarioSanchez-tl1gi6 ай бұрын
Write
@DarioSanchez-tl1gi6 ай бұрын
He didn’t
@Michael-bl4no2 жыл бұрын
South Park had him right. He’s not a good dude. Pretends to be but it’s all gaslighting.
@jimroth2493 Жыл бұрын
Bono, do you realy support Davos, man?? That’s not the brighest idea you had, man…for sure! ‘You read’, but you should read MORE, man to understanf better.
@stephenmckenna64882 жыл бұрын
What's the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't go traipsing around the globe claiming to be Bono.
@SilverLine2692 жыл бұрын
Yawn
@miarrem2 жыл бұрын
Old
@DarioSanchez-tl1gi6 ай бұрын
The
@headgroundsman16502 жыл бұрын
so old....
@larsfiksdal8710 Жыл бұрын
Please Forgive me. But I wanna write about my vision. A Sharity Tour of artists joining hands and hearts , towards society cause all Hearts needs gentleness in these times of Tough and Rough globally.Turn Music and Its popstars towards locally towns and communities. For a benefit for children healthcare, youth healthcare , adult healthcare,women healthcare. Men healthcare . All for greater good. It would generate much Cash. But More it be of well felt kids and adults to face happiness in the experience of global artists attention and productive will for Aid . When our Hearts stands up for Us all, really good will can accure. My intensions are like ‘’ Lets have a new Aid’’ We can do it. Please Sincerly yours Lars William Fiksdal From Bergen ,Norway.
@shane-irish2 жыл бұрын
🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@goalkeeper4842 жыл бұрын
There was a time when he was known as a musician, but nowadays it is more an author or dubbing actor. Music became irelevant for him or his (their ) fans. Sadly. And it is of course the USA where he makes a lot of promotion. Business man at its best. Nothing to complain about, but it is a fact, nothing more.
@nickkabbabe19532 жыл бұрын
Bono is still an excellent singer and song writer!
@tobyargall82022 жыл бұрын
It’s called Trump
@hawsrulebegin77682 жыл бұрын
I wonder how big the carbon footprint for his book promotional tour is.
@emirramos9902 жыл бұрын
He can't build "alternative" transportation buddy. He has to work with what's available. The question you should ask is how does he do and give to offset that carbon footprint. Try pondering that.
@hawsrulebegin77682 жыл бұрын
@@emirramos990 he could easily just do zoom interviews buddyboy. In fact, buddyboy, He’s a hypocrite. He’s talks the talk but just like his taxes, all is not what it appears.
@goldenhourkodak2 жыл бұрын
@@hawsrulebegin7768 You've completely missed the point of environmentalism. We're not saying you have to abandon society, only to work to change it.
@hawsrulebegin77682 жыл бұрын
@@goldenhourkodak you speak the we as though your speaking for everyone else. Interesting. Well your plan hasn’t worked has it? This is a man who moved his business to avoid paying taxes. The same man who gets attention for saving the world but in reality chooses to fly around the world promoting his book rather than doing it via video. How many flights will he take to promote a book? Around the world constantly.. The man’s a hypocrite. You say changing society is a good plan. But it failed. Personal desire won over reality. So he’s a hypocrite and your plan only gave people a get out clause for their personal choices. Cutting back on frivolous consumption was needed but no celebrity would ever champion that idea because they couldn’t jet off to promote themselves. So maybe it’s time for you and the whole environmental movement which seemingly you run to rethink your cunning strategy.
@emirramos9902 жыл бұрын
@@hawsrulebegin7768 Dude what do you know about his taxes? I'll answer for you...nothing! You speculate because you hate the band and the man even though you've never even met him. Can he sign books virtually? It's easy for any fool to call someone a hypocrite without knowing the person. I'm sure you believe yourself brilliant enough to do so but deep down you know that's the furthest thing from reality. Advise, if you don't like an artist don't watch anything that has to do with them and don't make it obvious that you're a silly hater with too much idol time you bother commenting about someone you dislike.
@philbis27742 жыл бұрын
U2 has to be one of the worst bands of all time as far as I’m concerned.
@Patriot5562 жыл бұрын
Bet you like at least a few of their songs though
@a.24662 жыл бұрын
no one is concerned with your comment..
@philbis27742 жыл бұрын
@@a.2466 YES i know all about A halo a crown of light rays, circle of light that surrounds a person in art.
@philbis27742 жыл бұрын
@@Patriot556 I did have that song Bozo did on South Park when he did all that hard work in Africa helping starving people - Don't know the name But went like YEAH YEAH YEAAH had that song as my ringtone
@Patriot5562 жыл бұрын
@@philbis2774 There ya go!
@joeb.evrythngEclectic5571 Жыл бұрын
We almost lost a Rock God! Bono: Take care of Yourself, Mate!