U2’s Bono on the Power of Music

Pay attention and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up for our each day e-newsletter to get one of the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.In 2022, The New Yorker printed a private historical past about rising up in Eire through the nineteen-sixties and seventies. It covers the interfaith marriage of the writer’s dad and mom, which was uncommon in Dublin; his mom’s early loss of life; and discovering his calling in music. The writer was Bono, for greater than forty years the lyricist and lead singer of one of many largest rock bands on the planet. As U2 bought out arenas and stadiums, Bono held forth on a variety of social causes; he grew to become “the definitive rock star of the fashionable period,” as Kelefa Sanneh places it. Bono joined David Remnick on the 2022 New Yorker Pageant to speak about his new memoir, “Give up.” “After I sang in U2, one thing received a maintain of me,” Bono stated. “And it made sense of me.” They mentioned how the band nearly ended due to the members’ non secular religion, and the way they navigated the Troubles as a bunch of younger males from Dublin instantly on the world stage. Bono shared a life lesson from Paul McCartney, and he opened up concerning the early loss of life of his mom. “This wound in me simply become this opening the place I needed to fill the outlet with music,” Bono stated. Within the lack of a beloved one, “there’s typically a present. The opening up of music got here from my mom.”This phase initially aired on October 28, 2022.New episodes of The New Yorker Radio Hour drop each Tuesday and Friday. Observe the present wherever you get your podcasts.The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.