Earlier this 12 months we launched audiobooks on Spotify in order that alongside music and podcasts, we can provide followers one other method to get pleasure from audio in a single handy place. Now, we’re thrilled that Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, the brand new memoir from U2 frontman Bono, is out there on Spotify as an audiobook.
As the lead singer of some of the iconic rock bands ever, Bono has led a whirlwind life touring the world to carry out for tens of millions of followers. But with the discharge of his new memoir, the artist, activist, and musician is taking a second to pause and replicate on his experiences.
Narrated by Bono himself, every of the 40 chapters in Surrender is called after a U2 music. The guide takes readers on a journey that appears again at how Bono’s buddies, household, and religion have formed his upbringing in Dublin, the worldwide success of U2, and his a long time of labor combating AIDS and poverty.
That’s why, for followers who wish to go deeper into the lifetime of Bono, we’ve created a particular U2 vacation spot that showcases the audiobook and U2’s catalog of albums multi functional place. On high of that, listeners may also discover the playlist This Is U2, with choose songs that showcase the 40 featured songs in Surrender.
Bono mentioned that his inventive course of for the memoir allowed him to precise himself another way.
“When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I’d previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me,” Bono mentioned. “Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim’s lack of progress . . . with a fair amount of fun along the way.”
Fans looking for much more background on the creation of Surrender can even take a look at our most up-to-date episode of Discover This, which options an interview with Dan Zitt, who’s the Senior Vice President of Content Production at Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. In the episode, Dan not solely talks about his experiences working within the audiobook business, but in addition shares just a few tales about working with Bono on the recording classes for Surrender.
To assist listeners uncover the audiobook and the brand new U2 vacation spot, the cell model of Spotify will characteristic a banner on Home that may take listeners on to the hub till November 10. Listeners may also be directed to the audiobook from the U2, Bono, and This Is U2 pages between November 7 and November 27.
Catch up with all of Bono’s biggest hits with our playlist This Is U2: