Bono performs particular solo rendition of U2’s ‘With Or With out You’

Bono carried out a particular solo model of U2‘s ‘With Or With out You’ on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert final night time (November 3) – watch beneath.

The frontman stopped by the US chat present to talk about his new memoir Give up: 40 Songs, One Story, which got here out on Tuesday (November 1).

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Showing as the only real visitor on yesterday’s episode, Bono additionally talked to host Stephen Colbert about assembly his U2 bandmates for the primary time, the way forward for the US, and shared his ideas on final 12 months’s Beatles movie Get Again.

Moreover, the singer handled viewers to a brand new association of U2’s 1987 single ‘With Or With out You’, the unique of which seem on the group’s fifth studio album ‘The Joshua Tree’.

“This isn’t precisely rock ‘n’ roll, however that is my new ebook,” Bono stated to introduce the efficiency. “And should you let me simply inform you a narrative as to how we received to this track, that will be nice.”

The frontman then delivered a spoken phrase excerpt as a delicate instrumental led him in to ‘With Or With out You’. Bono was accompanied by a harpist, cello participant and percussionist. You possibly can view it beneath:

Bono is at the moment out on a 14-date ebook tour dubbed ‘Tales Of Give up’, which kicked off in New York Metropolis on Wednesday (November 2). He’ll deliver the occasion to the UK and Eire later this month.

The 576-page Give up… explores the origins of 40 key songs in U2’s intensive discography. Every chapter is known as after the monitor it covers, with Bono’s life story weaved all through.

In a single part, the singer revealed that he underwent an eight-hour coronary heart operation in 2016 to restore a “blister” on his aorta. “A blister that’s about to burst,” he wrote, “which might put me within the subsequent life quicker than I could make an emergency name.”

Elsewhere within the ebook, Bono talked about discovering that his cousin can be his half-brother, the alleged loss of life threats he’s acquired in his life, and the 2014 backlash through which U2 organized for his or her album ‘Songs Of Innocence‘ to be routinely downloaded onto the units of 500million iTunes customers.