![]() ![]() “Edge got a bit of a bee in his bonnet to look at these songs and imagine them in a different context.”įast forward to November of last year, and the release of Bono’s memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.įor the audiobook edition, each chapter came with a snippet of a re-recording of a song that the chapter was named after. ![]() “We are playing around with rearranging some of the songs that we have and setting them in a more acoustic environment,” revealed Clayton. Keen-eared U2 fans would have had an inkling of what was in the works via an interview that the band’s bass player Adam Clayton gave to Rocky O’Riordan (aka Cait O’Riordan, former member of The Pogues) in June 2021 on the band’s U2-X Radio platform on the online radio station Sirius XM. Instead (as we now know), they devised a two-pronged creative/commercial assault that was spearheaded, as usual, by the band’s two primary instigators – Edge (aka Dave Evans) and Bono (aka Paul Hewson). ![]() Never a rock band to allow the grass to grow even a millimetre under their communal feet, U2 didn’t spend downtime during the pandemic to binge-watch TV shows. Tony Clayton-Lee reviews U2’s Songs of Surrender ![]()
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