U2’s Bono shares emotive trailer for ‘Bono: Tales of Give up’ documentary

The trailer for Bono: Tales of Give up, the intimate documentary starring the U2 frontman, has been unveiled.

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Directed by Andrew Dominik (who helmed Nick Cave documentaries One Extra Time With Feeling and This A lot I Know To Be True in addition to the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde), the Apple TV+ doc will function a reimagining of Bono’s critically acclaimed one-man stage present, Tales of Give up: An Night of Phrases, Music and Some Mischief…

It would additionally embrace unseen footage of his April 2023 residency at NYC’s Beacon Theatre in help of his guide Give up: 40 Songs, One Story, A Memoir Instructed By means of 40 U2 Songs.

“That is my story,” he says within the trailer that dropped immediately (April 30). “I’m caught with it.”

It sees him recount the lack of his mom when he was simply 14 years outdated, and chart his relationships as he rose to fame. “Final time I noticed my mom alive,” he says, “was at her personal father’s funeral. It sounds virtually too Irish, I do know. My father’s response to this tragedy was to by no means converse of her once more.”

Reflecting on these closet to him, the singer says: “Seems, probably the most extraordinary factor about my life is the folks I’m in relationships with. I met my spouse, Ali, the identical week I joined U2.”

The documentary is ready for launch on Might 30 on Apple TV+. A press launch states the movie “pulls again the curtain on a outstanding life and the household, associates, and religion which have challenged and sustained him, revealing private tales about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rockstar.”

It’s also set to premiere on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional the identical day because the movie’s launch, marking the primary feature-length movie obtainable in Apple Immersive Video. An abridged and up to date paperback model of Bono’s memoir may also be launched alongside the documentary movie.

The paperback version of Give up: 40 Songs, One Story, A Memoir Instructed By means of 40 U2 Songs has been refined to reflect the arc of his one-man present and can characteristic a movie tie-in guide cowl and new introduction by the singer.

In different information, U2 just lately shared a message and piano piece in help of Ukraine and President Zelenskyy to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

The Edge, in the meantime, just lately teased that new materials from U2 could be arriving “very quickly” with the band “hoping to get to do some exhibits” within the not-too-distant future. Final yr noticed the guitarist share that the album wouldn’t be “a straight-up rock factor” and that he was teaming up with Bono and Brian Eno for “some loopy type of sci-fi Irish people music”. 

Drummer Larry Mullen Jr. additionally just lately opened up about his restoration from an damage – which pressured him to take time without work from the band –and shared what followers can anticipate from new materials.