The lengthy-rumored memoir from U2′s frontman, is popping out Nov. 1.
Bono meets with Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-Connected earlier of the United Worldwide locations on February 11, 2020 in Recent York Metropolis.
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The lengthy-rumored memoir by Bono, U2′s frontman, is popping out Nov. 1. Alfred A. Knopf announced Tuesday (Could per chance 10) that the book, first signed up in 2015 but not officially disclosed at the time, will seemingly be called Hand over. Reports that he had a deal date assist to a minimum of 2019.
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“When I started to write down this book, I hoped to arrangement detail what I’d beforehand biggest sketched in songs,” the 62-300 and sixty five days-inclined Irish singer and activist, born Paul David Hewson, mentioned in a assertion. “The folk, areas, and probabilities in my existence. Hand over is a phrase freighted with meaning for me. Rising up in Eire within the seventies with my fists up (musically talking), it turned into not a pure belief. A phrase I biggest circled until I gathered my suggestions for the book. I’m mild grappling with this most humbling of instructions.
“Within the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my existence as an activist. Hand over is the story of 1 pilgrim’s lack of growth . . . With an even amount of fun alongside the methodology.”
The book’s subtitle is “40 Songs, One Myth,” a reference to the structure of Hand over: 40 chapters, every named for a U2 music. The band’s many hits embrace “With Or Without You,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Where the Streets Occupy No Title.”
Bono and U2 guitarist The Edge conducted a surprise attach in a subway arrangement within the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv that has been serving as a bomb refuge to camouflage give a enhance to for Ukrainians avoiding Russia’s unprovoked war. The singer tweeted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “invited us to compose in Kyiv as a camouflage of solidarity with the Ukrainian other folks and so that’s what we’ve attain to compose.”
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