Bono\u2019s memoir, Stories of Surrender, which is now the subject of a documentary, largely tells the story of the singer and his father, Brendan Robert Hewson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI always loved my father but I really learnt to like him. I realised how funny he was and how I might have missed some of his humour in my teenage years,\u201d Bono told the Brendan O\u2019Connor Show earlier today.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then there is this other father, which I am now and the fear of becoming a father because I didn\u2019t think I was a very good son,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bono, who hit superstardom with U2 in the 1980s, told how became close friends with his father after he passed away, which he described as \u201cnot so smart\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we got on great in one sense. We would go to Finnegan\u2019s [pub] and sit there and not speak to each other, but there were looks and glances exchanged,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said that he felt his brother was closer to their father and more useful to him as he got ill.<\/p>\n
However, he added that he feels he now \u201chas his father\u2019s approval\u201d and that he can \u201cmove forward\u201d with his life.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have always felt the blessing of my mother and I still get memories, even though I was 14 when she passed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s amazing the amount of people in rock n\u2019 roll who lost their mothers as a teenager, whether it was Paul McCartney or John Lennon.\u201d <\/p>\n
He said his father was very clever, but was taken out of school and later got a job in a post office.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had all these other dreams but he just put them aside because in Ireland at that time, it just was dangerous to have those kind of dreams,\u201d Bono said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople would leave Ireland to follow those kind of dreams and we forget this. My mother was totally non-ambitious, she would tell him to take more time off.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were just not materially very ambitious and that\u2019s very impressive. They put their friends first.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that his father \u201creally lived his life\u201d and \u201claughed a lot\u201d. \u201cHe had this beautiful voice and he had the Coolock musical society.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if he thought his father was envious of his life, the U2 singer said: \u201cI don\u2019t think so, I just think he couldn\u2019t say, \u2018wow, you got to do all the things I wanted to do\u2019. He just couldn\u2019t say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also spoke of religion, saying: \u201cIt gets more and more fascinating. I am more and more in awe. The Americans have ruined it with that word \u2018awesome\u2019, we have all ruined it. But awe is an extraordinary word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bono described his father as a \u201cvery courageous man\u201d \u2013 he was a Catholic and married a Protestant woman against the wishes of his family. <\/p>\n
\u201cHis own family did not turn up at the wedding. He raised us, me and my brother Norman, in the Church of Ireland, if that\u2019s what my mother wants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The 65-year-old recalled how his father would drop them at a Protestant church and would then walk 100 metres up the road to attend a Catholic church.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have found myself completely comfortable around Catholicism, with its mysticism\u2026 genuinely this sense of awe and wonder. And I love that aspect of Catholicism,\u201d Bono said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd yet I also feel really comfortable in the Evangelical world, particularly a black church in America where people are up freestyling scriptures, the poetry of them…they are conversant with those scriptures.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need them. I\u2019d be comfortable in a synagogue, or in Islam. I am in that sense a religious person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bono\u2019s memoir, Stories of Surrender, which is now the subject of a documentary, largely tells the story of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[18397,4080,77,4165,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-128394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-u2","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114563651040286222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}