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Bono

in Conversation with Michka Assayas
Michka Assayas - Author
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Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 400 pages | ISBN 9781594481734 | 04 Apr 2006 | Riverhead | 18 - AND UP
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Bono

For the first time, the biggest rock star in the world tells his life story

Bono's career is unlike any other in rock history. As the lead singer of U2, Bono has sold 130 million albums, won fourteen Grammys, and played numerous sold-out world tours, but he has also lobbied and worked with world leaders from Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to Nelson Mandela on debt relief, AIDS, and other critical global issues. He has collaborated with the same musicians for nearly three decades and has been married to his childhood sweetheart since 1982. His life, at all turns, resists the rock star clichés.

In a series of intimate conversations with his friend Michka Assayas, a music journalist who has been with the band since the very beginning, Bono reflects on his transformation from the extrovert singer of a small Irish post-punk band into one of the most famous individuals in the world; and from an international celebrity to an influential spokesperson for the Third World. He speaks candidly about his faith, family, commitment, influences, service, and passion. Bono: In Conversation is the closest we will come, for now, to a memoir from the iconic frontman of U2.

Even non-fans will find inspiration in Bono's passion for living. -People)

A must-read for the U2 faithful or for anybody interested in the life of a modern, multitasking rabble-rouser. -Palm Beach Post

"In an era in which print interviews have mostly been reduced to smart-ass Q&As, it's refreshing to read a discussion that allows for serious, no-B.S. answers and even entertaining digressions. Assayas's questions are thoughtful ones, and he smartly gets the hell out of the way of his subject." -GQ

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