![]() ![]() Inside Sophie Habboo's Hen Do: Jamie Laing's fiancée dons white veil and plays VERY cheeky games as she parties with MIC pals 'A belly and a heart full of love': Pregnant Danielle Fogarty shows off her blossoming baby bump in a white swimsuit during a relaxing break George Clooney is overjoyed longtime friend Brad Pitt has found love with 'serious' girlfriend Ines de Ramonĭukes Of Hazzard star John Schneider reveals his wife Alicia has died aged 53 as he pens heartfelt tribute 'When you love someone you just want to cover everywhere': Brooklyn Beckham reveals he is 'addicted' to getting tattoos dedicated to his wife 'I was really sad!' Tallulah Willis dances in a pink thong bikini in a throwback video as she details her battle with depression Megan McKenna's Scottish international footballer boyfriend Oliver Burke is pictured wearing a dressing gown outside her home 'The poetry is just pouring out of you.' ' 'Well, we need to get you back to the studio as fast as possible,' says Edge, lifting a pint of Guinness to his lips. My favourite is when he's in a Dublin pub with Edge, 'describing the transformative facts of 'regional integration' and some of the finer details of the stock exchange in Ghana. Perhaps the best thing you can say about this vast autobiography is that it isn't all annoying. Such long-term loves and loyalties tell you a lot. 'We were standing at the bus stop on the Howth Road, waiting for the 31a,' when he first asked her for a date. Other things can be offered in defence of this self-described 'Irish loudmouth.' The band are still together after all these years, their egos never big enough to drive them apart, as so often happens in rock music.Īnd Bono is still married to his school sweetheart Alison. And although he evidently likes a drink, he hasn't taken drugs, he says, since 'sniffing some Lady Esquire shoe polish when I was 15'. Their Christianity is of the Bible-based evangelical type, unusual in Catholic Ireland. The singer (pictured at the Graham Norton show earlier this year) also mentions getting a jar honey from his friend Steve Jobs And some of those early songs still sound great, especially from the Joshua Tree album of 1987. We follow the early struggles and small successes. Surely this was one of the wounds that drove his ambition when he and his schoolmates formed U2. 'She collapsed at the side of the grave as her own father was being lowered into the ground.' It was a painfully dramatic death as well: she suffered a stroke on the singer's 14th birthday in 1974 at his grandfather's funeral. Yet for all this, the earlier parts of the book are an engaging read, vividly evoking growing up in Dublin, family, friends and the tragedy of his mother's death. Geographically, philosophically, sexually.' Clear? The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. There is also the 'poetic' prose style that the reader has to wade through at times: 'The liminal is the place to be. What? Why? He never quite explains.īono (pictured in 2018, with Pope Francis) also shares stories behind the famous faces he's met defence secretary Robert Gates, and a 'phalanx of generals'. Bono addressing a meeting inside the Pentagon, with U.S. There's Bono taking a phone call from George Soros. Bono with the Pope, Bono with Princess Diana, Bono with Volodymyr Zelensky. Bono receiving a jar of honey from his friend Steve Jobs, 'from our own garden'. Perhaps he was worried that the world hadn't yet heard enough from him and needed more. It is with such anecdotes and memories that Bono's autobiography has landed - all 564 pages of it. 'I actually lifted up Larry's drum kit and threw it into the crowd,' confesses the singer, and in cold fury, Edge 'caught me one on the side of the head'. So much so, indeed, that on tour in the States, he once gave his lead singer a good thump. By Bono (Hutchinson Heinemann, £25, 564pp)Įven Edge, U2's brilliantly inventive but usually unflappably cool guitarist (real name David Howell Evans), finds Bono maddening at times. ![]()
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