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Watch @U2 's Bono perform their legendary hit, "With Or Without You" on #Colbert . pic.twitter.com/xlNMXUkf4C — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 4, 2022   Bono and @U2 have always been known for their improvisation. 😂 #Colbert pic.twitter.com/9zPyp5JVZ5 — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 4, 2022 Name a better selfie… we’ll wait. 🥃 See you tonight with @u2 ’s #Bono ! pic.twitter.com/WbPTRqRAwn — The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 4, 2022 My summer with Bono. I’ll have much more to say about this incredible audio experience we created. You all should hear it. Bono is a generous collaborator and the kind of fella who spells your name correctly for The NY Times. #Bono #Surrender #Audiobook #U2 #SurrenderMemoir pic.twitter.com/IFsccCNwo2 — Scott Sherratt (@scottsherratt) November 3, 2022

Bono joined David Remnick at the 2022 New Yorker Festival to talk about his new memoir, “Surrender.” “When I sang in U2, something got ahold of me,” Bono said. “And it made sense of me.” They discussed how the band almost ended because of the members’ religious faith, and how they navigated the Troubles as a bunch of young men from Dublin suddenly on the world stage. Bono shared a life lesson from Paul McCartney, and he opened up about the early death of his mother. “This wound in me just turned into this opening where I had to fill the hole with music,” Bono said. In the loss of a loved one, “there's sometimes a gift. The opening up of music came from my mother.”

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VIDEO: Chris Martin and Bono sing 'One For My Baby' by Frank Sinatra on  #JimmyKimmelLive | via @ColdplayAtlas pic.twitter.com/KHDeg78o3g — Mundo Coldplay (@MundoColdplay) November 29, 2017

by Gregg Chadwick I first heard U2's 1987 album The Joshua Tree in Western Australia. The album's Cinemascope sound provided the soundtrack for my next few months traveling the breadth of that expansive country from Perth, to Uluru (Ayers Rock), to Darwin, to Melbourne, to Sydney. Having spent a number of summers as a kid traveling across the grand deserts of the United States, I could hear the arid landscape in U2's songs. And while riding through the red deserts of Australia's outback I felt right at home. I gazed at Anton Corbijn's evocative black and white photography each time I pulled  The Joshua Tree out of the cassette case and popped it into my Walkman. My brother Kent is a poet, and I thought of him often as I listened to the poetic, atmospheric wash opening the album. In those Australian months, I often peered out of a bus window as we careened through the desert dust with Bono's plaintive wail in my ear. From Bullet the Blue Sky, to Red H...