U2 frontman Bono has revealed he had a \u201cnear-death\u201d experience while making the band\u2019s new album Songs of Experience but declined to go into the details.<\/p>\n
The experience was like an \u201cextinction event\u201d that influenced the music on the new album and made him realise he is \u201cnot a tank\u201d, the 57-year-old musician and activist told Rolling Stone magazine in a wide-ranging interview.<\/p>\n
There have been several reports of Bono grappling with a serious health condition during the recording of the album but this is the first time the singer has spoken about it.<\/p>\n
Though he was initially reluctant to talk about the incident, Bono told the magazine\u2019s found Jann Wenner: \u201cIt\u2019s just a thing that…people have these extinction events in their lives; it could be psychological or it could be physical. And, yes, it was physical for me, but I think I have spared myself all that soap opera.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially with this kind of celebrity obsession with the minutiae of peoples\u2019 lives I have got out of that. I want to speak about the issue in a way that lets people fill in the blanks of what they have been through, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bono said the experience last year had left him \u201cvery alone and very frightened\u201d. He added, \u201cI am a singer, and everything I do comes from air. Stamina, it comes from air. And in this process, I felt I was suffocating. That was the most frightening thing that could happen to me because I am in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
He refused to give details because of how the matter would be reported by the tabloids. He also didn\u2019t want to \u201cdemean\u201d people with more serious health issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, people have had so much worse to deal with, so that is another reason not to talk about it. You demean all the people who, you know, never made it through that or couldn\u2019t get health care!\u201d he added in the interview that will appear next month.<\/p>\n
The health scare coincided with the \u201cpolitical apocalypse\u2026going on in Europe and in America, and it found a perfect rhyme with what was going on in my own life\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I have had a hail of blows over the years. You get warning signs, and then you realise that you are not a tank, as Ali says. Edge has this thing that he says about me, that I look upon my body as an inconvenience,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In 2000, Bono was tested for throat cancer and suffered serious injuries in a bike accident in New York in 2014.<\/p>\n
The singer said he now plans to focus on positive things, such as making more music and spending time with his children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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