Bono has claimed he received death threats from the IRA during the height of his career, his bombshell memoir will reveal.
The U2 frontman also told how a major Irish gangland figure plotted to kidnap his daughters. He tells how he faced an assassination threat in America over the U2 song Pride – a tribute to murdered civil rights leader Martin Luther King – which made him fear for his life while performing it on stage.
The claims are detailed in full in Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, which is published on November 1. In the book, Bono recalls how former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams criticised the band’s pro-peace stance.
