'A brilliant very funny very revealing autobiography-through-music. Maybe the best book ever
written about being a rockstar' CAITLIN MORAN
_______________________________________________________________ Bono - artist activist and
the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent
intimate and profound Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived the challenges
he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. '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 As one of the music world's most iconic artists and the
cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED) Bono's career has been written about extensively. But
in Surrender Bono's autobiography he picks up the pen writing for the first time about his
remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice Bono takes us from his
early days growing up in Dublin including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14 to
U2's unlikely journey to become one of the world's most influential rock bands to his more
than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with
candour self-reflection and humour Bono opens the aperture on his life - and the family
friends and faith that have sustained challenged and shaped him. Surrender's subtitle "40
Songs One Story " is a nod to the book's 40 chapters which are each named after a U2 song.
Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book.
