U2 Singer Bono Reveals Finding Out His Secret Brother And Also Shares His Top 8 Favorite Albums

In a recent interview, Bono revealed that he found he was having a secret brother. The singer also shared the name of the albums he would take to a desert island

Paul David Hewson, popularly known as Bono, has recently shared his story of finding out his secret brother. The tale of how he learned he had a hidden brother in 2000 was disclosed by the singer in a recent podcast.

The U2 frontman chuckled with host Lauren Laverne, “I do have another brother whom I love and adore that I didn’t know I didn’t have — or maybe I did. My father was obviously going through a lot [when Bono’s mother died], but partly his head was elsewhere ’cause his heart was elsewhere. So I think that was part of the problem I was probably pickin’ up as a kid.”

Adding to that, he said, “It’s a very close family, and I could tell that my father had a deep friendship with this gorgeous woman who was part of the family. And then they had a child, and this was all kept a secret.”

Bono continued by saying that although his mother was never made aware of the affair before her untimely death when he was only 14, he did get the chance to confront his father about it years later.

Bono, the 22-time Grammy winner said, “I asked him, did he love my mother? And he said yes. And I said you know, ‘How could this happen?’ And he said, ‘It can.’ And that he was trying to put it right, trying to do the right thing. He wasn’t apologizing, he was just stating, ‘These are the facts.’”

The rock singer chose the eight albums he would take to a desert island, among them Peter Frampton’s “Show Me the Way,” Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand,” Emeli Sande’s rendition of the traditional Anglican hymn “Abide With Me,” performed with The Fron Choir, and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ live rendition of “Dead in the Water” at Dublin’s RTÉ 2FM Studios.

Later in the episode, he also picked Inhaler’s “Ice Cream Sundae,” Angelique Kidjo’s “Agolo,” Verdi’s “La Traviata Prelude to Act 1” played by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and Simple Minds’ “Someone Somewhere in Summertime” as the other four tracks.

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