NEW YORK (AP) – Bono began his book tour Wednesday in an “outrageous” mood, he said, a little guilty for appearing on stage with three musicians who weren’t his U2 bandmates. and a succession of songs. , jokes and exclamations about his life before devoted fans at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan.
He also performed a song in Italian, an impeccable version of the opera theme “Torna a Surriento”.
“It’s all a little surreal,” he said at one point. “But it looks like it’s going well.”
The singer, songwriter and humanitarian activist, born Paul David Hewson, described himself as an eternal child with his fists “in the air”, a “bombastic” rock star and a baritone trying to be a tenor. . Now also a published and successful author, his “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story” came out this week and was already in the top 10 best-selling books on Amazon.com.
Through “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “Where the Streets Have No Name” and other U2 classics, the artist retraces his life from his oppressive childhood home in Dublin and the pain of the untimely death of his mother, Iris Hewson , until the formation of the group that made him a global celebrity and his long-term marriage to Alison Stewart.
Famous attendees on the evening included former President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks and US guitarist The Edge. The audience sang and often stood and cheered during the 90-minute “Stories of Surrender” show, heralded as “an evening of words, music and some cheating”.
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