Singer relates a good performance in the record curiously to the death of his father, Bob Hewson, recent at the time of launch
THE U2 Has in the voice of Bono one of its more proper characteristics. Although the band has played differently by sailing several threads throughout her career, the singer is unmistakable in all these shades.
For the singer, however, there is an album that brings its best performance. And it is not a work of the start of the discography, as one might expect.
THE Hotpress, Bono revealed to be considered How to dismantle an atomic bomb (2004) as an album responsible for the presentation of his definitive vocal interpretation. And what did he lead to this? According to him, curiously, the death of his father, Brendan Robert “Bob” HewsonIt occurred in 2001. The singer said:
My voice is better than ever on this album. And I think this is a gift from my father to me. It was a great tenor and when he died, he passed it to me.
Bono And your father was not always very easy to live. Bob Hewson He was a widower when the U2 singer was only 14 years old and was very tough with his son.
In your book, Surrender: 40 songs, a story (2022) (via Distant magazine), the artist reveals it BobA fan of classical music once said the singer was “a baritone who thinks he is tenor”. I reached this point.
In the biography, Bono He also reflects on the relationship between the death of Bob and the change in his way of singing. In the words of himself:
My voice has opened up and also has a physiological reason for this, because if you are more relaxed as a person, your voice opens. In recent years I have sung in ways that I could never have imagined. ”
However, the father appreciated the song made by his son, although he rarely talked about it. Bono said to Hotpress:
He never said anything about music ( U2). I remember he liked ‘The unforgettable fire’. Not the album, the music. He thought we were going to become good at the time of Rattle and buzz (1988) – ‘When love arrives in the city’ It was a kind of favorite of him. But he didn’t know where we were going in the 90s! ”
U2 and how to dismantle an atomic bomb
How to dismantle an atomic bomb It is seen by many as an album of recovery in the career of U2. The band was looking for more weight in the sound and brought the manufacturer Chris Thomaswho worked with the Sex gunsTo help them.
It was nine months of work to produce practically a complete album. However, half of the band was not satisfied: while Bono and the guitarist The edge They were ready to launch the material, the bassist Adam Clayton and the drummer Larry Mullen Jr. They were against.
The manufacturer Steve Lillywhite He was called to mediate the internal dispute. As a result, he ended up reworking the entire album with the quartet for another six months.
In the end, How to dismantle an atomic bomb represented a rebirth of U2 At the beginning of the century, after a decade marked by experiments. BonoIn extra launch material, he even said that this was the group’s first rock album, with over 20 years of career. This was the solid impact they managed to provide.
One of the main ranges of How to dismantle an atomic bomb AND “Sometimes you can’t do it alone “. The composition of Bono many years before the recordings, with the title of “Thought”and it was a tribute to Bob Hewson.
The singer came to sing him in 2001, in his father’s funeral. The version of the album was completely reworked, already with Lillywhite in the studio.
Other singles were “Vertigo”, “City of blinding lights” AND “Everything for you”. The work reached the first place on stops from 34 countries and produced 8 Grammy to the group.
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Collaborated: André Luiz Fernandes.
Source: Terra
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