Bono: Soul Searching and Uncensored
By Joe Jackson
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(Please note this book is an anthology of interviews, with the Back Story of each interview, it is not a biography of Bono)
Bono once told Irish music journaist, Joe Jackson, in response to a critical profile Jackson wrote in 2000 for a newspaper "Yours is a critical voice and, please, (Laughs) stick the boot in, [or] praise. We have that kind of relationship. It is one of respect." Now, "liberated by what Bono said back then, I have applied that approach to this book, with delight!"
However he also explains that the book, "is, as its title suggests, Bono soul searchng and uncensored" and "only critical, when it needs to be, which amounts to no more than 5% of the text."
The book contains for the first time in print the full, 15,000 words plus version of Jackson’s 1993 world exclusive, and highly regarded, by U2 fans, and Bono himself, “improvised” Zooropa interview, which was published all over the world, in varying lenghts, usually "highly edited."
This book also contains another world exclusive which has never been published - a nearly 7,000 word Q & A interview Bono gave the author in 1994 about, says Jackson, “his love of Elvis and analyses in detail the influence Elvis had on him and U2, overall.”
For example, when Jackson suggested to Bono, that U2 might be "selling their souls" as a result of their "business ventures" and that this might "pollute their art, and music" Bono decribed that attitude as "madness," claimed, "business shouldn't be left our of the creatve process" and revealed for the first time that U2 took their inspiration in this sense, in part, from Presley's catchphrase, 'TCB," as in Taking Care of Busness.
Jackson also asked Bono “Does the fact that Elvis’s life apparently ended as a result of drug abuse make you keep a check on your own indulgences? Does any of thsi resonate for you?" U2's singer replied, tellingly, "No. What I want from my life is a wholeness that I don't believe Elvis had." Then he explained, in detail why this was his belief.
Bono: Soul Searchng and Uncensored is filled with such revelations and a must, as they say, for fans of Bono, who may have thought they know all there is to know about the man.
This book also contains in newly written sections titled 'Back Story' a behind the scenes look at every encounter Jackson had with U2 and their manager, Paul McGuinness, including a colourful collision with The Edge.
"Some fans may have read the Zooropa interviews" says Jackson, "But they won't fully undertand them until they read the background story of my, sometimes rocky relationship with U2. 'Rocky' seems right, in every sense!"
Joe Jackson also tells the background story of why Johnny Cash thanked him for "helping me hook up with U2" for the recording The Wanderer, the title of which, incidentally, Bono choose at the author's suggestion.
Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson is the author of several books. The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire, was named one of Time magazine’s Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2008.
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