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Killing Bono
"The best book I have ever read about trying to make it in the music business" - Elton John
"A fantastic book, which manages the difficult trick of being simultaneously very funny and very sad." - Bob Geldof
"I was Neil McCormick's fan in school. He was much cooler than me, a much better writer and I thought he'd make a much better rock star. I was wrong on one count. He's written a great book" - Bono
Bono: In the name of his father
Painting the illustrations for a new version of Peter and the Wolf, U2 singer Bono drew on his own sometimes painful relationship with his father.
Published: 20 Nov 2003
Bono with one of his ‘Wolf’ paintings: ‘Really driven performers are playing to one person. It might be a lover. But it might be your father’
“Art is an attempt to identify yourself,” Bono once said to me. In which case, judging by the self-portraits that form part of the U2 singer’s first exhibition of paintings, Bono appears to have identified himself as baked bean.
“I really did look like one until I was 13, and the freckly sphere was punctured by a rather large nose!” he jokes. “I’m not making any great claims for my abilities as an artist. I was just hanging out with my kids one moment, having a laugh with a paintbrush - next thing you know, I’m exhibiting in the Rockefeller Center.”
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