Bono, the frontman of U2, is currently on a mission. He tells things from his life that were previously only known to the initiated. Hookers are his memoirs “Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story”, the content of which he also presents live.
As it was only revealed in June, the singer remained silent for 22 years about a family secret that upset him greatly when he found out from his father (just a year before his death from cancer): Bono has another half-brother.
Cousin actually half brother
Bono gave more details in an interview with the Irish Times on Saturday. Accordingly, the half-brother comes from an affair that his father Bob had with Bono’s aunt Barbara in the ’60s. Barbara was married to Bono’s mother’s brother, Iris, when the affair began.
As you can imagine, the pregnancy would have quickly become a scandal at the time. Ireland is known for its restrictive Catholicism.
When Scott Rankin was born, Bono says he was told the boy was his cousin. Even Bono’s mother Iris is said to have known nothing of the true paternity until her early death in 1974.
As the 62-year-old explained in an interview with “Radio 4”, his aunt is an important part of the family and he could always feel that his father “had a deep friendship with this great woman”.
Bono always suspected something
Bono meaningfully: “The truth is that Scott and I felt like brothers long before we knew we were.” He always knew that something was in the air, so the singer. Later, Saraus also got a clue as to why he had such a difficult relationship with his father (“I must have blamed my father for making my mother unhappy”). Bono’s father, Bob Hewson, died in 2001. Bono memorialized him with the song “Sometimes You Can’t Make It on Your Own” on the 2004 album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.
As The Daily Mail has researched, Scott Rankin works for the Irish Treasury and has three children. Bono recently proudly declared: “I love Scott and his mother Barbara.”