Bono (right) interviewed by journalist David Remnick at the 2022 New York Festival
Photo: Getty Images for The New Yorker, Dave Kotinsky. All rights reserved.
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Bono announces November 1 entitled Surrender. 40 Songs, One Story” published his memoirs. To mark the occasion, the U2 frontman gave an extensive interview at the New York festival organized by The New Yorker magazine. In it, he spoke, among other things, about his more than 40-year marriage to his wife Alison “Ali” Hewson. “Any time one of us got lost, the other was there to bring the other home. And I’m very grateful for that,” Bono said.
“It’s a great madness with us,” continues the 62-year-old. It has something to do with the knowledge that you are fighting against all odds together. “But if you seriously ask me, I would say that sometimes friendship can trump romantic love. And friendship is what Ali and I have,” Bono said. If you have both, then that is something special.
In the interview, Bono also talked about how the other band members reacted to his book. Bassist Adam Clayton asked him why music wasn’t a bigger part of ‘Surrender’: “He said, ‘It’s not about the music enough, Bono.’ And I said, ‘You know, it’s not just memoirs about music. I wanted to give people a glimpse of my life as an artist, my life as an activist, my life as a hooligan, my life as a husband, my life as a father. It all belongs together for me,” said Bono. “It was all part of the same creative canvas.”
Bono, whose real name is Paul Hewson, and Ali had met when they were twelve schoolchildren. In 1982 they married. They have four adult children. Ali Hewson campaigns against nuclear power in Ireland and founded two companies with the aim of producing fashion and cosmetics according to fair trade principles and in a sustainable way.
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