'Surrender' is Bono at his Bono-iest: verbose, wry, inspiring, and fully aware of how grating he can be when his ego gets the best of him. chaneyj reviews the U2 front man's new memoir
who died of an embolism during her own father’s funeral — to the present day. Within that structure, Bono writes in anecdotal bursts that aren’t in exact chronological order, peppering his observations with doodles and sidebars.
Throughout, Bono confesses repeatedly to the many doubts he has harbored about himself and his choices over his years in the spotlight — including the famously controversial decision to drop the U2 albuminto the music libraries of every iTunes user in 119 countries.
On September 9, 2014, we didn’t just put our bottle of milk at the door but in every fridge in every house in town. In some cases we poured it onto the good people’s cornflakes. And some people like to pour their own milk. And others are lactose intolerant.was emblematic of what some felt U2 had become: a bunch of arrogant old fogies who thought a little too much of themselves with Bono acting as the most obvious symbol of that high self-regard.
“It can be bruising,” he writes of the lasting but not always smooth relationships among the members of U2, which formed when Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. were in high school. “And I recognize my own role in all this. How I can be over-the-top in standing up for what I believe in, how very wearying that must be.”
As mindful as he is about how he comes across, there are times when that self-awareness slips. While noting that he did not agree with George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, he adds that it was “a war I sensed he would have fought himself if he had to,” a rich thing to say about someone whose actual military service was called into question.
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