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There’s a new documentary, which is based on his one-man stage show, that takes a closer look at the life and music of U2’s Bono. Starting on Friday (May 30), Bono: Stories of Surrender drops on Apple TV+. It’s available to stream for subscribers only.
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A subscription to Apple TV+ can give you access to stream Bono: Stories of Surrender online. Apple TV+ is ad-free and goes for $9.99 per month. You can watch everything the streamer has to offer, including original titles, such as The Morning Show, For All Mankind, Severance, Long Way Home and Long Way Up, Servant, Silo, Invasion, Foundation, Lessons in Chemistry, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Masters of the Air and more.
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Directed by Andrew Dominik, Bono: Stories of Surrender is a reimagining of Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…, the U2 frontman’s one-man stage show. The documentary follows Bono’s relationships with his family, friends, faith and career in music. It features never-before-seen footage of life on the road with U2, as well as performances of U2 songs.
Meanwhile, if you’re an Apple Vision Pro owner, then you can watch the film in an immersive experience with Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive).
You can watch Bono: Stories of Surrender on Apple TV+ starting on Friday, May 20. You can watch for free with a seven-day free trial. In the meantime, watch the trailer below.
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To celebrate the release of their Disney+ documentary Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, With Dave Letterman, U2‘s Bono and The Edge reflected on their illustrious career with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, premiering Thursday (March 16) and previewed exclusively on Billboard below.
The Edge discussed the release of the band’s 1991 album, Achtung Baby, which incorporated more alternative rock and electronic dance music into their sound. “We started to become caricatures on that basis, like the Joshua Tree period had way overexaggerated this sense of earnestness and responsibility,” the guitarist explained. “We just had to own up and say, ‘Actually… we’re very silly, we’re not those characters.’”
While The Edge noted that the group “absolutely” wanted to help society through their music, the public seemed to have the wrong impression about who they were as people. “We were also not taking ourselves nearly as seriously as people thought we were, and we were able to laugh at ourselves,” he shared. “Achtung Baby was that antidote for us as much as for music fans to that overly sanctimonious, pious and earnest sort of image that had grown up around us. We needed to flesh out the truth about who we were and give ourselves the freedom then to be in both. Because that was the thing we loved about Bob Marley. He was able to, without any issues, blend the spiritual into the political and sexual. To him, these weren’t different baskets. These were all part of who he was.”
Directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville, the A Sort of Homecoming documentary will debut Friday (March 17) on Disney+ and showcase Bono and The Edge‘s special concert performance in Dublin.
Check out The Edge’s thoughts below — plus another exclusive clip of Bono talking about considering himself a songwriter first and foremost — and catch the full interview at 1 p.m. ET. on Apple Music 1 at apple.co/_Zane.
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