In ‘Surrender’, the rocker invests in the image of the brave, committed and sensitive pacifist to social injustice, but plays plasticized to appear almost perfect
Bono she is a good creature, intelligent, daring, committed, loyal, talented, restless and all that can make him, in a true biography, a great bore. This is because perhaps some of the real Bono is missing from his memoir published today on the planet, Surrender – 40 songs, one story, with all the mistakes he has certainly made, but which his readers will never know. The script of Bono’s life, written by himself, almost beatifies him, but invests in another narrative element that overwhelmingly replaces the self-deprecating confessions that only Keith Richards mentions, Elton John, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart managed to do: a story of overcoming.
Bono, baptized Paul Hewlson in Dublin, Ireland on May 10, 1960, invests in self-pity by placing one of the dramatic focuses on his mother’s untimely death and, much later, in 2000, on his father, a cancer victim. In an interview on the book granted to NPR not by chance, the US broadcaster National Public Radio, a non-profit public media company, said that the devastation caused by the death of her father, with whom she did not deal well, is been so long that his voice started to change. And for the better.
surprise, the name of the book, means “delivery” – and Bono explains the meaning. “I need to be calmer and give up to my gang. This has been all I have tried to do in my life: surrender to my wife, to our Creator. These are not things that come easily to me. “But, she says, this is not cowardice.” When I say ‘surrender,’ I don’t mean making peace with the world. I’m not ready to make peace with the world. I’m trying to make peace with myself. The world is a deeply unfair place and I am ready to collapse. I keep my fists closed for this. “
This is Bono de surprise, a pacifist sensitive to hunger in Africa, the holy wars of the Middle East, Liberation Theology and even political terrorism in Latin America. Remembering what made him write the song The mothers of the disappeared (Mothers of the Missing), she relived the day she witnessed the terror in El Salvador in the 1980s, when the US-backed dictatorial government eliminated rumors. “People were disappearing. Driving to a village shortly after flying into San Salvador, we passed a roadside corpse that had just been thrown from a speeding pickup truck. We stopped and saw a note stuck in the dead man’s chest. : ‘This is what happens to those who try to make a revolution’ “.
From Central America to Africa, Bono went there to see the hunger of the Ethiopians up close and do what he could to, one day, tell it all. “We are here to show solidarity with the people of this country and to better understand the most important question, albeit a cliché, that the world has had to face. A question that I have tried to answer ever since in my life: why is there hunger in a world of plenty? How can people be short of food in a world where there are mountains of sugar and lakes of dairy products? And what can be done? ” writes in surprise. The United States was already a target of his indignation when the classic album The tree of Joshua, 1987, was released. “There was no question that we were behind the barricades. In the early 1990s, I satirising the United States government every night.”
Speaking of his own voice, Bono talks about his search for high keys and his belief in the amount of air his lungs can store. “Your husband has a lot of firepower in that arsenal he carries in his chest,” a doctor told his wife after Bono underwent surgery. “He probably has about 130% normal lung capacity for his age.”
And about being an artist, his statements can be read as messages to a young singer. For Bono there is a point to reach where “you are no longer singing the song, but the song is singing you”. And “letting go of inhibition is the most important journey for any artist, and the most difficult. But when you do, the stage becomes where you feel totally at home and where, in a weird way, you are.” totally yourself. “In surpriseBono is all himself, a true pacifist, but a peacock.
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