Bono opens up about alleged death threats to U2 in new book
nme.comU2 frontman Bono has opened up about alleged death threats he received in his new, soon-to-be-released memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.In the book, Bono speaks about numerous threats the band received from the IRA, gangsters and some far right groups throughout their career.Bono claims in the book that Gerry Adams, the late, former Sinn Fein leader, said he “stinks” because of their pro-peace stance. “U2’s opposition to paramilitaries (of all kinds) had cost the IRA valuable fundraising in the US,” the book alleges.The musician spoke about the book for the first time yesterday (October 16) at The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival, and recalled how special branch officers said that /his wife, Ali Stewart, was the more likely target than him. “I still take that badly,” he wrote in the book (via The Times).He also recalled in the book how his family was the subject of an alleged kidnap threat from gangsters in Ireland.
Bono claimed a “famous gangland leader in Dublin had been planning to kidnap [his daughters], that [the gangster’s] people had been casing our houses for several months and developed an elaborate plan”.Another incident occurred, Bono claimed, when far right groups targeted them following the release of ‘Pride’ – the band’s tribute song to Martin Luther King.
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