“As one of the music world’s most famous artists, Bono’s career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, Bono writes for the first time about his own remarkable life and those he has shared it with. He takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2’s unlikely journey to become one of the world’s most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against Aids and extreme poverty.”
I know some say U2 have been overrated as a band, but they came out of the punk-rock movement and were honest about having a lack of technical musical skill early on in their career. But I think Bono has been a very good poet, even though I don’t really listen to his latest stuff.
As for memoirs, I have said before in a blog post that there are basically two types of creative writing. One is purely imagination like fantasy or science fiction. The other is basically semi-autobiographical but without “naming names” and lightly fictionalizing to make the narrative more interesting,