On U2 frontman Bono‘s 62nd birthday, he announced that his memoir will arrive this fall. Titled Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, the book is set for release on November 1.
In a statement, Bono said, “When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress … With a fair amount of fun along the way.”
Bono has also created 40 original drawings which will be featured throughout the book, and also in the animations, by ROSEWOOD Creative. For a preview of Surrender, an animated clip has been animation today where he reads an extract from the chapter titled ‘Out of Control,’ in which he tells the story of starting to write U2’s first single on 10th May 1978 – his 18th birthday, exactly 44 years ago.
