Feb. 26 (UPI) — U2 frontman Bono is the subject of an upcoming documentary on Apple TV+, Bono: Stories of Surrender.
The feature-length film draws inspiration from the 64-year-old singer’s memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, published in 2022, and the touring he did around that time.
“Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me,” he said at the time. “Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands.”
The title also shares a name with Bono’s one-man stage show, Stories of Surrender: An Evening of Words, Music and Some Mischief…, which is reimagined in the documentary.
“As he pulls back the curtain on a remarkable life and the family, friends and faith that have challenged and sustained him, he also reveals personal stories about his journey as a son, father, husband, activist and rock star,” a press release reads.
Bono was recently honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The documentary is set to premiere May 30 on Apple TV+, with an “immersive” version of the film debuting on Apple Vision Pro the same day. The latter option was filmed in such a way as “to produce a 180-degree video that places viewers onstage with Bono and in the center of his story.”
