U2 frontman Bono is getting ready to release his new book Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The book will be out on November 1st and Bono will embark on a theater tour performing some songs and telling some stories. This past weekend he took part in the New Yorker Festival where he did a Q&A with New Yorker editor David Remnick. One of the more interesting moments to come out of it is what his U2 bandmate Adam Clayton thinks about Bono’s book. Adam told Bono that he thinks he didn’t write enough about music in the new book.
“Well, you know, it’s not just a music memoir. I wanted to give people a view that 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…[were] all part of the same creative canvas… It’s not a traditional rock and roll memoir in that sense. And it’s a love story; it’s a pilgrimage. The pilgrim’s lack of progress would be a better title.”
