Guitar formerly owned by Prince could fetch $600,000 at auction
Cloud 3 used at height of his stardom may beat estimate and become most expensive of late musician’s guitars
March 2024
Audiobook of the week
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono audiobook review – unexpected humility
The U2 frontman narrates his own autobiography, using music to look back on his life - Band Aid hubris, iTunes regrets and all
August 2023
The Guinness heir who became the ‘saviour’ of traditional Irish songs
Arts patron Garech Browne is the subject of a new book that hails him as a cultural rescuer who helped preserve Ireland’s folk tunes and poems
April 2023
‘We only agreed to do it if they shook hands’: Bono on the gig that helped end the Troubles
From Neil Hannon to Bertie Ahern, musicians, politicians and PR gurus recall the crucial part that a 1998 gig played in Northern Ireland’s peace process
March 2023
Bono finally admits to liking Abba. It’s a sure sign of maturity
Barbara Ellen
The days of having ‘cool’ musical taste are over. Owning up to guilty listening pleasures is a joy in itself
Bono says pressure to look ‘macho’ made him hide his love of Abba
U2 singer recalls growing up with Swedish pop group’s music in 1970s Dublin, during BBC session with The Edge
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
U2 Songs of Surrender review – all the anthems, but smaller
In a typically grand gesture, 40 songs are picked by the band for muted acoustic treatments, with varying degrees of success
January 2023
How Zelenskiy became Hollywood’s man of the hour
From Ben Stiller to Jessica Chastain, celebrities have embraced Ukraine’s president and offered support to the country’s war effort
December 2022
This much I know
Eve Hewson: ‘I have a cat, I like to sleep 12 hours a night’
Best books 2022
The best music books of 2022
November 2022
Bono review – U2 frontman’s pared back ‘solo in Soho’ show is a triumph
Observer book of the week
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono review – from Boy to Mandela
October 2022
Book of the day
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono review – a rattling good yarn
Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’
September 2022
‘She was never spoken of again’: Bono recounts his mother’s death in new memoir
In an extract published in the New Yorker, the U2 frontman details the loss that spurred him to music
July 2022
Kennedy Center Honors 2022: George Clooney, U2 and Gladys Knight among honourees
Christian pop singer Amy Grant and Cuban-American composer Tania León also recognised for prestigious yearly award
June 2022
Bono tells of his secret half-brother and of family forgiveness
The U2 singer, interviewed on Desert Island Discs, describes his regrets about his teenage behaviour and explains his mocked ‘poem’ about Ukraine
May 2022
Brief letters
It’s just me and the dog – are we a ‘hard-working family’?
Brief letters: Modern family | Breastfeeding trauma | Turbo-charged ducklings | The right spoon | Bono in Ukraine
Bono to release memoir about ‘the people, places and possibilities’ of his life
Surrender, which will ‘draw in detail’ what he had previously only sketched in songs, will contain 40 chapters, each named after a U2 song, and include 40 original drawings by the singer
U2’s Bono and the Edge perform in Ukraine subway station
Two members of Irish rock group hail Ukrainians for ‘fighting for all of us who love freedom’
