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Surrender: A Conversation with Bono

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Daily News, News

4.659K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Host Rachel Martin sits down with the lead singer of U2 to talk about his new memoir, Surrender: 40 songs, One Story. Bono says his faith has been at the center of everything he's done. His 40 year marriage, the relationships with his band members, his activism and his music.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Rachel with a question.

0:02.1

Everybody remembers their first big concert.

0:04.2

Mine was Auroio Speedwagon, and I will defend that experience till I die.

0:09.2

But what about the first concert that really moved you?

0:11.9

Made you see things in a different way.

0:14.1

For me, it was you too.

0:15.9

It was the summer of 2005, the Vertigo tour.

0:19.6

There they were, Bona on the mic, the edge on guitar,

0:22.8

Adam Clayton on bass and Larry Mullin Jr on drums.

0:26.5

The crowd starts singing along within the name of love.

0:29.7

And then Bona elevates the moment.

0:54.0

I love that show so inspired that I actually wrote an email to everyone I knew

0:58.1

with the title Do Act B about how all of us have just one life.

1:03.9

And we've got to use it well.

1:05.4

Sentimental, earnest, a tad bit preachy.

1:08.9

Yeah.

1:09.7

But all that can be used to describe you too.

1:12.6

And Bona doesn't apologize for any of it.

1:15.7

My life is focused on a definition of love that I seem to have just sort of written into me,

1:25.6

which is that love is the realizing of another's potential.

1:29.4

Realizing your own, put another's potential.

1:32.4

And the squandering of potential is a thing that infuriates me more than anything else.

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