Bono opens book tour before adoring fans at Beacon Theatre

Bono opens book tour earlier to adoring fans at Beacon Theatre

NEW YORK (AP) ” Bono opened his book tour Wednesday darkness inside what he called a transgressive mood, a little small portion culpable for appearing on phase accompanied by trio musicians who were not his fellow members of U2 with every one other accompanied by or else singing, joking with every one other accompanied by shouting not here his existence tale to thousands of adoring fans at Manhattan™s Beacon Theatre.

He flat performed one air inside Italian, a flawlessly operatic lay clasp of of Torna a Surriento.

This is all a little surreal, he noted at one point. But it seems to exist going well.

The 62-year-old singer, songwriter with every one other accompanied by humanitarian described himself while an eternal male child (born Paul David Hewson) accompanied by his fists inside the air, a grandstanding go to and fro celestial body with every one other accompanied by a baritone trying to exist a tenor. He is now a published with every one other accompanied by best-selling author, his Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story not here this week with every one other accompanied by by that hour dated inside the top 10 on Amazon.com.

Through Sunday Bloody Sunday, Where the Streets Have No Name with every one other accompanied by other U2 classics, he traces his biography from his stifling childhood place of residence inside Dublin with every one other accompanied by the grief over the early demise of his mother Iris Hewson to the formation of the band that made him a worldwide fame with every one other accompanied by his enduring matrimony to Alison Stewart.

Former President Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks with every one other accompanied by U2 guitarist The Edge were among his famous admirers inside the audience, which regularly stood with every one other accompanied by cheered with every one other accompanied by sang along. For the 90-minute and Stories of Surrender show, billed while an evening of words, music, with every one other accompanied by some mischief, Bono wore a plain black blazer, matching underpants with every one other accompanied by added color accompanied by his orange-tinted glasses. He opened accompanied by an description from his book of his heart surgery inside 2016, nevertheless or else pranced with every one other accompanied by leapt exist fond of a male who had never seen the inside of a medical organization with every one other accompanied by belted not here songs written decades ago lacking some sensory power he had forgotten what inspired them.

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Ticket prices were go to and fro celestial body levels: thousands of dollars for the finest seats with every one other accompanied by well into the hundreds flat for obstructed views. Compared to a U2 show, the setting was relatively intimate ” handwritten illustrations on screens hanging in the direction of the spine of the phase with every one other accompanied by a few tables with every one other accompanied by chairs that Bono used while props to climb on or to simulate conversations. With hot with every one other accompanied by comic mimicry, he recalled phone calls accompanied by Luciano Pavarotti with every one other accompanied by his pleas of Bono, Bono, Bono while the opera celestial body recruited him to perform at a good show inside Modena, Italy, with every one other accompanied by on one occasion turned up at U2²s studio on short observation ” accompanied by a film crew.

Bono too re-enacted his numerous tense bar space meetings accompanied by his father, who seemed to believe concerning his son™s career while some sort of failed work venture. Brendan Robert Hewson™s rough facade did on one occasion collapse unexpectedly ” when he met Princess Diana, an encounter Bono described while exist fond of watching centuries of Irish loathing of the royals gone inside eight seconds.

One princess, with every one other accompanied by we™re even, Bono added.

He spoke regularly of loss, of his mother when he was a teenager with every one other accompanied by of his father inside 2001. But he too described his existence while a tale of presence, whether of his devout faith, his spouse with every one other accompanied by children, or of his bandmates. After what he called the ascribe Irish response to a child™s outsized ambitions ” to build while if they don™t exist ” he called himself blessed, with every one other accompanied by added that what was silence has been filled, mostly, accompanied by music.