Bono

In an astonishing moment early in his memoir, Bono is describing the creation of a song. U2, by now, has its third rehearsal room — the first was the music ...

But there are interesting connections between the world Doyle describes and Bono’s world, not least the sense of living in a culture that demanded that you start from scratch, and also the wit and sense of camaraderie. by Bob Geldof is an earlier, south-side version of the story Bono tells, including the early loss of a mother and then a sort of personal redemption through music and fame and high-level activism. I love the big, round roar of the crowd in these concrete crucibles in contrast to the open field, where the sound of a crowd singing floats away into the night.” It is a sharply drawn portrait of the world that made them, a definitive version of their early years. He quotes Paul McGuinness approvingly: “It would be stupid to be good at art and bad at the business of art.” The truth is that the enduring appeal of that song is not as nihilistic as a suicide note. It is, he writes, “a song that could not contain her but at least captured some of her dark beauty and our bittersweet duality”. On Paul McGuinness as manager in the early days: “I am now ready to accept that the reason Paul McGuinness had taken such a long time purchasing our own van was that Paul did not want to drive one. “I had to accept,” he writes, “that she could never be known. I nearly fell off the bed](/life-style/people/2022/10/26/roisin-ingle-im-a-swiftian-scholar-in-sync-with-my-musical-and-lyrical-heroine/) [‘I am in my 70s and in a relationship with a man 10 years my senior. In an astonishing moment early in his memoir, Bono is describing the creation of a song. Then he writes: “What no one in that rehearsal room, including me, had thought about was Iris Hewson resting under the ground not a hundred yards from where we were playing.